Flotsam and Jetsam - Supreme Court Allows Ballroom to Proceed 5-4

With Chief Justice Roberts joining the three liberal ladies in dissent. Fox, Trump's White House ballroom construction gets another lifeline from SCOTUS amid heated legal fight, "Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, calling the privately funded East Wing project 'likely unlawful'." Mary Chastain at LI, Supreme Court Grants Stay on Order Stopping White House Ballroom Construction, "Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the three leftist justices." Sundance at CTH, Supreme Court Rule 5-4 to Eliminate Lawsuit Against White House Ballroom and National Defense Complex – Chief Justice Roberts Joined the Minority. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, SCOTUS: It's It's a Ballroom Blitz, 5-4; Roberts Hangs With the Hacks, As a Matter of Fact. Supreme Court. "We grant the requested stay. The government has established that it is likely to succeed on the merits of a significant legal question, that it would likely suffer irreparable harm without a stay, and that the balance of equities tips in its favor." Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta, "Superb ruling by the Supreme Court! There is absolutely zero standing for the National Trust to sue. Simply not liking a building does not constitute injury. Basic Article III limitation. D.C. Circuit Judge Neomi Rao set the table for this decision with her brilliant dissent finding no standing. This is an encouraging development for the many other cases where leftwing groups baselessly sue to thwart President Trump’s America First agenda, and leftwing district judges issue baseless injunctions despite lacking jurisdiction. Hopefully, this great Supreme Court decision is the beginning of reining in these lawless tactics. President Trump showed great leadership in pushing forward expeditiously to complete this important ballroom/military complex. Well done, Mr. President!" Josh Blackmun at the Volokh Conspiracy, is trying to Make Sense Of The Chief Justice's Tango In The Ballroom Case. "It was the Chief, and not KBJ, who was holding up the case. Was he trying to flip ACB's vote?" Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "One of the most galling aspects of all this lawfare is that so much of it is run through 501(c)(3) organizations, meaning organizations whose activities are effectively subsidized by taxpayers. They then use the aura of “IRS approved nonprofit” status to confer a kind of legitimacy on themselves, as though the government has somehow endorsed what they do. It has not. These are private activist organizations pursuing their own agendas. ..." Quote Shawn Fleetwood @ShawnFleetwood, "BREAKING: Supreme Court ends lower court blockade against Trump’s White House ballroom construction. Chief Justice Roberts joins the court’s Democrat appointees in dissent." It's time to end the 501c3 bullshit.

Newsweek opines Iran Is Facing Its Soviet Moment and Possibly Its End. Cathy Salgado at PJM hears Trump Say Iran’s Regime Killed 100,000 Freedom Protesters. Surely, some liberal fact checker will come along and insist it was on 99,999 so far, and Trump is lying. Capt. Ed sees Desperation: Iran Tries Provoking US, Hilarity Ensues "Trump finally appears comfortable with the siege as the prime strategy, as a means to force the IRGC's collapse or at least its desperation. Feed a cold, starve Vahidi. It also appears to be working, and this level of desperation indicates that it may be working even better than we think." At the Victory Girls Trump Reiterates Stance On Iran As War Reheats Again. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@POTUS: "Iran is the number one leading state sponsor of terror... They cannot have a nuclear weapon."" Don Surber is looking forward to Fighting Iran with pirates. Cleetus Olney @CleetusOlney, "CNN: Hegseth fired all of the honest brokers and surrounded himself with “yes men.” Also CNN: Flag Officers “continuously” non-concur with Hegseth. Pick one, you hacks." Quote Haley Britzky @halbritz, "The Secretary sees non-concurs from senior military commanders “constantly”? x.com/seanparnellasw…"

From Ace, Trump Announces Truly Huge Deal to... Take Over 65 Billion Barrels' Worth of Venezuela's Oil Reserves?! Why would they do this? Because successive socialist governments have, get this, run the oil industry into the ground. They did not do basic maintenance and never bothered to upgrade and modernize their infrastructure. They have billions of barrels of oil they never invested any money in so the oil remains underground. The socialists, if you can believe this, simply extracted oil (and embezzled the money) while doing nothing to safeguard the future health of the industry. So Venezuela needs outside help to do the most basic things. Let's elect socialists in America to work the same Economic Miracles! I don't know if I like this. Venezuela has a nasty habit of repudiating past agreements and "nationalizing" -- stealing -- foreign investments in their oil industry."

Beege Welborn likes how Bessent Disses the Carney-Val: 'He's Doing What's Best for Mark Carney and the Liberal Party'. Sundance asserts Canadian Govt Gaslighting Is Off the Charts and reports Chinese Car Company BYD Inquires to Purchase Stellantis Auto Plant in Canada, Barbara Boyd Discusses G20 Outlooks – Abundance Mindset ‘Build More Pies’ (Bessent) -vs- Scarcity Mindset ‘Divide Up Pie’ (Europe). CNN whines Iceland rejects EU membership plan in referendum held under the shadow of Trump’s Greenland threats. Sarah Hoyt at Insty thinks SUPPORTING THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY ANNOYS THE HECK OUT OF MY ENEMY: Turkey: We Put Out A Warrant For Netanyahu’s Arrest. Israel: Enjoy Greece Having Our Cutting Edge Weapons.

Sundance hosts as President Trump Holds an Oval Office Event to Outline Newest U.S. Prescription Drug Price Reductions. Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@SecScottBessent: "She is on the Senate Finance Committee, she is the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee — and neither she nor her staff know the difference between a foreign exchange intervention or a currency swap. It is shameful."" Quote Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren, "Tough couple weeks for Sec. Bessent. His effort to prop up a foreign currency hasn’t worked. His failed intervention in Treasury markets was blasted by his mentor as burning "two centuries" of credibility." @instapundit @instapundit, "It’s the Anaconda Strategy." Quote Prowler @derzum_, "Replying to @derzum_ Trump's actions against NGOs, gutting of USAID, sanctions on ICC, leaving 66 world organizations, pulling back Civil Rights rulings & DEI regulations, firing federal workers, pursuing election integrity and clearing out fraud all damage the power of the foreign and domestic left."

RedState's Bog Hoge sees The Lake America Memes Are Coming in Fast and Furious, and They Are Laugh Out Loud Funny.

At Sauron's Eye, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks Ace reports Muslim Brotherhood Spawn Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins Deleting Old Tweets Making Light of 9/11, Claims That Anyone Who Wants to Judge a Senatorial Candidate Based on His Statements and Sympathies Is Engaging in "Cancel Culture", "Some people deleted some tweets about some people doing some things." It's kind of late to be deleting tweets. Hat Hair's John Sexton noticed Abdul El-Sayed Had Thoughts on 9/11 (and the Left Is Outraged About It). Capt. Ed wonders Is This The World's Worst Campaign Video? It looks like a hostage video. PJM's Scott Pinsker calls out Politico’s Big Lie About Michigan’s Muslim Vote. Dave Strom, MI Attorney General to Jews: Sacrifice Your Very Existence to Elect Democrats. Guy Benson @guypbenson, "Wild what’s happening in Michigan" Quote Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar, "Michigan AG Dana Nessel called on Jewish Dems to "place the needs of the world" even "over our own survival" in speech Sunday. “We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest and, yes, even our own survival""

PM claims Mamdani’s free day care plan in chaos as cash-strapped centers warn they may not open. Maybe electing a failed rapper who never had a real job wasn't such a great idea after all. Stu Smith and Daniel Edward Rosen at CJ are worried about Mamdani’s Abolitionist Bench. "The mayor’s new judicial panel reveals the radical direction in which New York’s criminal and family courts may be headed." Gooder and harder. Beege Welborn looks at The LARPing Lowlife King of the DSA, Gustavo Gordillo. From Fox, Far-left streamer Hasan Piker equates Israel's 'right to exist' to Nazi Germany, "The far-left streamer called Israel an 'apartheid state' and compared Zionism to fascism during the conversation."

PJM's VodkaPundit says HE'S RUNNING: This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA, "former Barack Obama advisor and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel." Karol Markowicz @karol, "We spend a lot of time talking about the left flank of the Democratic party wanting to get rid of prisons and stop celebrating Thanksgiving but the more "moderate" Democrats are openly arguing to end the electoral college and pack the supreme court." Sandy Petersen @SandyofCthulhu, ""Under Communism, everyone has a job". This is absolutely true. Here's what else was true. 1) you were ASSIGNED your job AND the region for that job by the state (i.e., a bureaucraft). You were required to stay in your job at least 3 years. 2) After 3 years, if you wanted to switch jobs, you needed the approval of both your labor board AND your employer. If you switched too often (for example: every 3 years), there were legal penalties, up to imprisonment. 3) promotions were based on party membership, loyalty, and sucking up. I'ved talked to a lot of former Soviet citizens, and zero of them thought merit was of use. Also many nice jobs were only for party members...." In a Hot Hair vid, What the Socialists Get Wrong About the Affordability Problem Is... EVERYTHING. From NYPo, Democratic socialism could cost the US a staggering $200 trillion, report reveals: ‘Closer to Soviet-style communism.’ At WaEx, Socialism in practice means more power for the Trump administration, experts say. Kevin Downey at PJM says Hey, I Know That Guy Who Just Clown-Slapped Rep. Max Frost! Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Maxwell Frost complains that he did NOT have access to the American Dream, gets immediately checked: "You went from driving an Uber to being a politician...! What am I missing?!""

PJM's Dave Manney sees California Lawmakers Keep Giving Businesses Reasons to Leave. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's cites Hampton Prescott on “The Curley Effect” – Municipal Mismanagement that Perpetuates Political Power by Driving Away Responsible Opposition. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog is astonished by $65 Billion In ObamaCare Fraud? Just wait, there's more.

Page 6 Hollywood says Hunter Biden reveals dad Joe used to visit him in crack den with motorcade and Secret Service.

At NYPo you too can see the Moment disgraced Eric Swalwell is surrounded by FBI agents at San Francisco airport. Sundance wallows in schadenfreude as a Grand Jury Subpoenas James Comey Advisor Daniel Richman. Ace cites a Whistleblower: NY AG and Gigantic Hag "Tish" James Commanded Her Underlings to Find (or Contrive) Criminal Charges Against Trump -- and His Friends and Allies. "This is abuse of office. A prosecutor is supposed to investigate a crime and find the guilty party, not investigate a person to discover crimes (or, in this case, "crimes"). Before anyone can say it: Nothing will happen, of course." This should surprise no one; she campaigned on it. John Sexton sees Larry Krasner's Office Keeps Freeing Murderers, No Matter the Cost.

From the WJ, New Fauci Docs Prove He Repeatedly Told People to Delete Emails He Sent Them. Ace sees Released Emails Show Anthony Fauci Routinely Told "Scientists" To Delete His Emails (So That Congress and Other Investigators Couldn't See Them), "No one is above the law, especially not a three-foot-seven malignant dwarf Bond villain." I'm not sure you can ever really delete e-mail from a federal government server.

Scott McKay @TheHayride, "One thing I notice is that the people angriest about SpaceX and the other economic development wins Louisiana is posting are not the Left. They're the old-money, establishment white Democrats and in particular the trial lawyers...."

Stacy McCain likes his bodycam footage, Police Bodycam Video Shows Response to Antifa Terror Attack on Texas ICE Facility. Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle, "So out of 500,000+ immigrants, 300,000+ had a documented criminal history? And this is supposed to make me be *against* deportations?" Quote The Washington Post @washingtonpost, "ICE has arrested more than half a million people since President Trump returned to office, and nearly 40 percent do not have a criminal record. As of Aug. 6, ICE had detained more people without a criminal record this year than in all of 2025." Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "I think that I would have more sympathy here if virtually the entire political left had not spent years lambasting the President as a racist for calling Haiti a "shithole," organizing single women's tours to the place, and literally running around in shirts reading "Haiti Is Already Great." This may be shallow, but is definitely a reality" quote Steve McEllistrem SteveMcEllis, "Haitians are no longer entitled to temporary protected status even though the State Dept warns travelers not to visit Haiti due to crime, unrest and limited healthcare. So it's okay to deport these folks to terrible conditions that we won't tolerate?" Ace catches up to the fact Grifter Narcissist Milo Yiannopolis Deported by Homeland Security for Illegally Overstaying His Visa. "He's to be deported. Good." Already gone. 

Beege Welborn is enthralled that Sec. Duffy Continues Shutting Down the Illegitimate CDL School Pipeline. Sundance, Dept of Transportation and DHS Hold Press Conference to Announce Emergency Action on Commercial Driver’s License Revocation.

Aaron Hanscom at PJM notes Pedro Sánchez Is Back From Vacation — Guess Which Country He Blames for ‘Disinformation’ About Ceuta. At the Telegraph, Muslim workers threaten strike after Venice mayor blocks mosque. From Dave Strom, Immigration: Too Much of a Good Thing? Muslim Immigration: Too Much of a Bad Thing.

This is the most incredible shot/chaser I've seen. In 2015 this communist lauds Canada for infinity immigration, saying it drives GDP. 11 years later, he's freaking out about Canada's GDP falling off a cliff, asking "what happened in 2015???"
Stupid-smart people strike again! pic.twitter.com/3KC2KIK4sA

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 31, 2026

I would also point out that in 2015, Justin Trudeau was elected.

Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Here's Hoping Trump Leaves the MSM Propaganda Machine in Ruins. John Tierney at CJ exposes The Political Violence Double Standard, "The left-wing kind is discounted; the right-wing kind is exaggerated." At NYPO, WaPo columnist calls source for his own paper’s Iran war report ‘a traitor’ who ‘ought to be prosecuted.’ Irons in the Fire opines Once again, it is not possible to hate most of our Professional Journalists enough, "How, pray tell, did the Washington Post acquire such highly classified information about wartime military operations? Well, as the Post describes, that highly classified information came from “people familiar with [the] assessment,” who “described the assessment to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity because the document is classified.”" At TownHall, Kurt Schlichter believes The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me. I'm not sure they're capable of embarrassment.

@instapundit @instapundit, "Universities suffer the consequences of policies and politics that they supported." Quote Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis, ""Despite the often-stunning brilliance and laid-back, tolerant vibe of Burlington, enrollment at the University of Vermont has fallen precipitously, [which] has at least something to do with Burlington’s sketchy downtown area." Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "Reminder: Temple is looking really shaky too." Quote Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "Big problems for Temple: “Projections for enrollment growth over the next few years have been downsized, which would mean a loss of $150 million in revenue over five years.” Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "This is absolutely something that could happen. Colleges are in a triple bind: the Trump admin is threatening their funding (and capping govt student loans), the population of college-age people is starting what will be a sharp decline, and parents have never been more skeptical of the value they provide for extraordinarily high tuition, for good reason. I think the chance of significant contraction of the number of colleges, as well as significant shuffle in elite rankings, are more likely than not in the next 5-10 years." Quote Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper, "People are under-pricing the possibility of a black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly. At some point parents will decide they will not pay $100-400k combined for their kids to cheat their way through college. I expect a bang, not a whimper. x.com/sfmcguire79/st…" How do you go bankrupt? Slowly, then suddenly.

The Handmaid’s Tale the Left wants you to worry about vs. the Handmaid’s Tale the Left is helping to make happen. pic.twitter.com/f0eo1MhxhF

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 30, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - FBI Raids Eric Swalwell's House, Office

From NRO, FBI Raids Eric Swalwell’s Home, Seizes Electronics in Connection with Sexual Assault Investigation. Teri Christoph at RedState say We Just Learned What Was Behind the FBI Warrant for Eric Swalwell – It's Not Looking Good for Him "The Swalwell search warrant was apparently issued under 18 U.S.C. § 242, a federal civil-rights statute that applies when someone uses their governmental authority to deprive another person of rights provided to them either through the Constitution or by federal law." Dana Loesch @DLoesch, "I’m trying hard to be Proverbs 24:17-18 over this but man, the schadenfreude is real." Quote New York Post @nypost, "FBI confronts Eric Swalwell at airport, seizes electronics in sexual misconduct probe." It couldn't happen to a sleazier pol.

Jim Treacher has BREAKING NEWS: Presidential Aide Aids President "The president has a secretary. He has a staff, people who work for him. We all know this. Then, the other day, Jon Ossoff insinuated that there’s something going on between Trump and Natalie Harp. So now, it’s off to the races. Now, CNN airs crap like this. They dug up Natalie Harp’s brother, who’s apparently estranged from her, to badmouth her." State of the Day has the State of Tuesday: JON 'PEE-WEE HERMAN' OSSOFF IS DOA, "Ossoff’s mealy-mouthed response didn’t help his case."

Kurt Schlichter at TownHall says Good Riddance to John Cornyn and His Democrat Staffers in his own inimitable way.

Chris Bray @a_chrisbray, "From a New York Times video about the suffering among sailors deployed on the USS Abraham Lincoln. The caption, in case it's too small to read, says, "They didn't sign up to be on a ship in the middle of the ocean."" Umm, yes they did. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn thinks The Disconnect Between Some Military Families and Their Service Member's Actual Job Is Stunning. 'Donut Eater' at RCD thinks Nobody Asked Me but…Let’s Stick the Seals in the Marine Corps. Seems natural to me. At Twitchy, Time to Clutch the Pearls: Jake Tapper Is BIG MAD at Pete Hegseth for Alleged 'Slur' in Iowa. "Training, not trannies!"

Guy Benson @guypbenson, "A disgrace. Republicans are the fiscally irresponsible party, Democrats are the fiscally insane party. Voters claim they want this addressed, but don’t really act accordingly. Meaningful solutions are demagogued to the hilt — so further toward the fiscal abyss we climb." Quote The Wall Street Journal @WSJ, "Gross U.S. debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a new milestone in the country’s struggle to control its finances. A look at how we got here. https://on.wsj.com/45xgRl7" PJM's Matt Margolis likes how Scott Jennings Schools CNN Panel on Biden's Inflation Disaster. VodkaPundit at PJM, I'm Sorry, The Feds Wasted HOW MANY TRILLIONS in Improper Payments? It's not waste, it's constituent services for Democrats. At Althouse, Steve Hilton, the GOP nominee for Governor of California, talks to Joe Rogan. "Joe and Hilton are old friends, and this discussion goes on for 3 hours, so this should be a major boost for Hilton. I'll just jump in at the point where they are talking about the waste of money on nonprofits that deal with homelessness:"

Hat Hair's John Sexton, Will Iran Escalate As an October Surprise? It wouldn't be much of a surprise, but the media would fall for it, and might even conspire with Iran. PJM's Stephen Kruiser asserts The Price of 'Wait Them Out' Keeps Going Up for Iran. Vivid. @VividProwess, "A Palestinian woman in Gaza admits everyone in Gaza is Hamas: “In Gaza, every house has Hamas. Are you going to kill us all?!”" Well...

Ryan King at NYPo reports Abdul El-Sayed wants to go a ‘step further’ than even Bernie Sanders in pitch for public ownership of AI firms. Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" @Sultanknish, "Correction Abdul El Sayed's ancestors sold Africans as slaves." Quote DSA Watch @DSA_Watch "Abdul El-Sayed responds to black voters who do not support him: “I am African.”" The Free Bacon reveals Hasan Piker’s Wingman Brother Is Space Engineer With Security Clearances Who’s Worked on Air Force One and Nuclear ‘Doomsday Plane’ for Boeing. "Murat Piker, who muses on the nature of ‘incels’ on his brother’s livestream, has worked on major military projects including jets and undersea drones." Wesley Yang @wesyang, "Not at all surprising to anyone familiar with the present (and past) of the Left." Quote Michelle Tandler @michelletandler, "Let me get this straight. The head of the NYC DSA: + Went to Yale for sculpture + Never held a real job + Had his dad pay his rent + Failed an electrician apprenticeship." From the Victory Girls, DSA Co-Chair Got His Comrades To Pay Him After Lying About Job. At Commentary, Abe Greenwald on Wokesters Without Borders.

This is the way to combat the false lure of socialism to young women. With real stories. Great campaign from @IWV pic.twitter.com/YTCBCU6faO

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 19, 2026

Jeff Charles at TownHall notices James Talarico Claims Black Americans Too Dumb to Get Voter ID. To be fair, most white Democrats espouse that belief; some may even believe it. PJM's Stephen Kruieser says Sadly, It's Illegal to Punch Democrats Who Constantly Lie About Voter ID. Ace cites Moderate Centrist Normal Completely Heterosexual Candidate James Talarico Backs Knife-Murderer Karmelo Anthony: "The System Is Not Working for Black Texans" "He just gets more centrist and normal and Christian every single day." Bad Hombre @Badhombre, "Hey Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist, why are you using different addresses with the FEC for your recurring contributions to ActBlue, your husband's money laundering PAC "VoteVets", and your donations to the Harris campaign? Are you circumventing contribution limits and concealing the source of those funds? Not good! Time to start combing through your "situation.""

At the Chronic, Dan McCarthy looks at Democrats’ Southern Strategy. MD Kittle at Da Fed thinks Milwaukee’s Latest Election Mess Is All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating. Kira Davis at The Orange Report finds California’s Medicaid Program is a Voter Registration Program...Literally. "An LA resident discovered some shocking loopholes in CA’s public health exchange process."

Bluesky Libs @BlueskyLibs, "A single day of Charlie Kirk Bluesky commentary. A thread. Retard right: “Israel and TPUSA killed Charlie Kirk.” The left says these things openly and loudly, daily. Motive and Occam’s Razor, folks. Nobody wants us dead like the left - and it’s not particularly close."

VodkaPundit reports the FBI Disrupts ISIS-Inspired Terrorist Attack on New York Statehouse.

Shooting News Week approves of the Trump DOJ’s Path for Restoring Prohibited Persons’ Gun Rights – Here’s How it Will Work. At Da Signal, The Most Unsung Victory of Trump’s Administration "Charles and Heather Maude, a small, fifth-generation farming and ranching family near Pennington County in South Dakota, were prosecuted by the Biden administration via the Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service in 2024. Both parents were charged separately, facing $250,000 fines and up to 10 years in prison each, for allowing their cattle to graze on 25 acres of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland."

Ryan King at NYPo is outraged that Fauci was privately informed about questions over COVID-19 vaccines and miscarriages, new texts show.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Something big is about to happen with deportations in America. You should be ready for this… I just spoke with a senior DHS official. They shared deportation numbers with me that frankly stunned me. +27,000 deportations. Last week. +3,600 a day average. Tracking for 1.4 million deportations across the calendar year. +69,000 illegals are in DHS jails waiting to be deported at this moment. And you haven’t heard a blip about it in the corporate press. Why? My DHS source says “stealth tactics.” “We’re everywhere in every major city. We tell no one. Plain clothes. Beat up old cars. Quick work. Tactical strikes. No one sees anything. No drama. No tears. No media circus. You’re just going back home where you belong.” And here’s where it gets insane… DHS tells me blue states are quietly and very secretly working with the Trump administration to assist in the mass deportation of criminals. The criminal alien issue has become so “politically toxic” and “costly” that Democrat Governors have given the green light to Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in major blue cities to drop their illegals off with undercover ICE for removal. It’s happening. You just don’t see it. We can track if these numbers hold, but as for now this is a historic white pill and exactly what MAGA voted for." Cam Arcand at TownHall reports Multiple Sex Offenders Snatched in Latest ICE Arrests: 'Defending the Homeland.' Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "Immigration is supposed to benefit your people and your nation. You get to choose who comes in, from where, and in what number… The people purposefully flooding the West with millions of foreign men from incompatible cultures are committing treason." EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "The Clinton Gun ban was just 22 years ago. Pistol brace BS is dead. Tax stamps are dead. FRTs are plentiful and legal. The NFA is hanging by a thread. The border is on absolute lockdown. We’re deporting ~50,000 illegals a month. And now TPS is gone. And you’re blackpilling?" Matt Lamb at LI hears from NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government. "Temporary immigrants are “essential” to the operation of New York’s government, Governor Kathy Hochul said." Doing the bullshit real Americans won't. Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog hears Abbott Wants Foreign Funding, H-1B Employment Banned In Public Schools. Seems reasonable. From Ace, New UK PM Andy Burnham Is Taking Migrant Rape Seriously. He's Distributing a Pamphlet Telling Migrants They're Not Allowed to Rape (Or Have Sex With Children), "Um, do they speak English? Will they even be able to read this?"

From Da Signal, In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Attack Free Speech. Because they're afraid to say anything bad about their "Woke" plagiarists. Amy Curtis at TownHall wants you to Guess What Just Happened to the Academic Who Exposed Jason Arday's Plagiarism. Human Events (that doesn't narrow it much, does it?) reports Ghent University's trans rector suspends 'race realist' Nathan Cofnas over Jason Arday's death. Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "Cofnas should set up a massively crowd-funded NGO fully dedicated to rooting out academic plagiarism and incompetence." Quote Nathan Cofnas @nathancofnas, "I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me. The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the Green Party." Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "USA: woke 1 was craaaazy.UK/Europe: let’s crank up the crazy to infinity." Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter, "Nathan Cofnas, suspended by the rector of Ghent University, Petra De Sutter, in the wake of Jason Arday’s death, notes that De Sutter used ChatGPT for her inaugural address, which included fabricated quotes. Previous news reports confirm this." Razib Khan @razibkhan, "turns out when you select for cowardice you get an institution incapable of policing itself." Quote Jacob Shell @JacobAShell, "Academia faces a potential extinction level event if it's established that exposing academic plagiarism in a public article means you're fired. It would be like a fire department firing the guy who points out they don't have any water." Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "Exaggerated, but the basic point is valid. George Floyd tested Anglosphere universities, and they flunked. Instead of feeding the hysteria, they should have served as beacons of reason. The Jason Arday tragedy provides another test. Time for academia to face its pathologies." Jarvis @jarvis_best, "Every 6 months or so all of academia takes a break from their important scholarship in order to remind us that each and every single hillbilly luddite stereotype about higher education being a cocoon of berserk shrieking Stalinist savages is 100% correct."

From NYPo, Disgraced Mamdani-loving journo Ross Barkan apologizes — after being caught plagiarizing 67 times. At 404 Media, ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit, contained numerous AI "hallucinations." Matt Calkins explains I was a sports columnist at the Seattle Times for 11 years. This is why I resigned.

Philanthropy Daily examines God and Man at Yale at 75. In hindsight, WFB's complaints about higher education seem kind of quaint. Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian, "Education Department Breaks Left-Wing University Accreditation Cabal | Breccan F. Thies, The Federalist The Department of Education on Wednesday announced a new rule that would allow more organizations to accredit universities, stripping the left of one of its most potent tools for enforcing its worldview through higher education...."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning

And not a lot of material! Maybe I didn't keep up with the reading. From Althouse, "They were going to build an F.B.I. headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state. We’re going to stop it.", "Said Trump, last year, quoted in "Judge Rules Trump Administration Can’t Scrap F.B.I. Move to Maryland/The ruling is almost certainly not the end of the lengthy fight over the F.B.I.’s future headquarters, which has lasted for years" (NYT gift link). In a 47-page ruling, Judge Theodore Chuang of the Federal District Court in Maryland wrote that “the F.B.I. erroneously concluded” that it could select a new headquarters for itself without consulting Congress. In reality, Judge Chuang wrote, Congress had already approved the Biden administration plan for the F.B.I. to move to Maryland...." Of course, it's nowhere near 3 hours from DC to Greenbelt, except when traffic snarls (not all that uncommon). I don't care, move the seat of government to Fargo, ND, just to see who really wants to be there.

Red State's Teri Christoph is happy to report Trump Humiliates Obnoxious CNN Reporter After Oval Office Outburst: Ouch! Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@POTUS: "You're very disrespectful in front of this young man... You're a loud, boisterous person. You're Fake News. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You're a fake reporter and you report FAKE NEWS." I don't think they're capable of shame.

At TownHall Matt Vespa thinks You Won't Believe It, A John Cornyn Staffer Pulled a Benedict Arnold Move. Here's His New Boss, James Talarico campaign. How to admit you have no sincere beliefs in one easy career move. John Waters at RC History, looks at The Next American Right.  "Today, the insurgency has won. What remains is not a bold, dramatic second act, but the far more familiar (and mundane) work of routine governance. We have entered the revolution’s mopping-up phase."

Vicky Taft at PJM asserts Trump's Messaging on the Mullahs Could Be as Powerful as a GBU-57. A bomb is only as good as it's aim. Victory Girls sees Iran Move To Crack Down On Civilians And Survive The Midterms. Armed Forces Press is angry the Media is Pushing the Carrier Crew Mental Health Story As Iran Blockade Is Working. From Althouse, "I just do not understand the mentality. If this is a representation of who our military is now… we’re just Rome sitting here waiting to burn. We’ve got nothing left." |From "Fox Host Trashes U.S. Sailors as ‘Weak’ for Speaking Out About Dire Conditions/Fox News host Joey Jones mocked service members speaking out about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln" (MTN)." At Twitchy, Messages Scrawled on Aircraft Flap by Service Members Show No Morale, Says Iranian Propagandist. Hat Hair's Capt. Ed wonder if it's Mixed Signals or Taqiyya? Hamas Pledges Disarmament As Iran Plots Wider War. TownHalls Matt Vespa looks at That Time Bill Maher Challenged This Former CBS News Anchor to Find a 'Moderate' Muslim.

Drew Bond at Am Mind assures us of America’s Winning Playbook Against China.

Capt. Ed calls it Off the Deep End: Dems Make 'Abolish ICE' Official Position. Matt Yglesias at Slow Boring asserts Woke 1 is dead. We’ve learned nothing. Documenting Saylor @saylordocs, "Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.” “But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”"

Mediaite watches CNN Data Guru Flags ‘Troubling’ Number for Democrats That May Predict Mike Rogers Victory, "Enten noted Rogers is leading El-Sayed by four points overall and five points among independents." But is it outside the margin of fraud?  Capt. Ed calls her the Spitting Image: El-Sayed Sis Charged With Assault on Illinois State Trooper. I hope she got properly thumped. PJM's Chris Queen thinks Jon Ossoff Sure Seems to Think He's the Next Barack Obama.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "NEW: The company behind a recent poll that showed Karen Bass with a 12-point lead over Nithya Raman for LA mayor & showed Bass collecting most of Spencer Pratt's prior support has admitted their poll was FAKE and was intended as a "social experiment" to see how a poll could spread in the media ecosystem without verification. The company, Median Strategies, also conducted a recent poll in Wisconsin that had socialist gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong up by 20 points. Hong lost her primary. It was all bogus. Wild story via @Noah__Goldberg at LAT." At Althouse, Comedian strategies. So polls are often bogus? Who knew? Now let's not always see the same hands.

Capt. Ed calls it a Bombshell: FBI Knew Swalwell Got Illegal Donations From Fang Fang – and More. Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "And Jim Comey’s FBI tried to convert Fang Fang into an FBI informant. That should tell us something about the CHS program under Comey." Quote John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre, "The FBI framed a sitting US President for treason, dropped an investigation into Eric Swalwell for having an illicit affair with a Chinese spy, planted fake stories with the media and FISA court, and forced Big Tech to censor critics to influence the 2020 election." Western Lensman @WesternLensman22h, "Fang Fang once approached Victor Davis Hanson and tried to work her magic. VDH: “You would have to be a stupid, narcissistic idiot to fall for that." He's talking about Eric Swalwell."

At NYPo, A liberal journalist just exposed lying Fauci’s toxic relationship with the media. Exposed is a little strong, affirms comes closer. 

From NewsBusters, the "Forbes Editor Who Threatened Firms Hiring Trump ‘Fabulists’ Fired After Secret $6M Payment."

At Insty, Driscoll is still following the strange case of Dr. Arday, JULIE BURCHILL: "The True Tragedy of the Death of Jason Arday." Hat Hair's Dave Strom believes Racism Did Not Kill Jason Arday. 

Internewscast reports Harvard Professor Faces Backlash for Allegedly Using AI to Draft Anti-Trump Op-Ed. At least he didn't plagiarize it; there are plenty of templates to follow. Dave Strom wonders, rhetorically, How Endemic Is Fraud in Prestige Academia? Pretty endemic, I know of a few cases in my field, but it's exponentially worse in the "soft sciences" because the consequences are so low. Capt. Ed asks Has Texas Succeeded in Decolonizing Academia? It's doubtful. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn notes that When Even Basic Fractions Are a Math Problem Too Far for College Students. Sadly, my own math skills have begun to degrade from disuse.

Dave Strom hears Don't Say Sophie! Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Atlanta Dream refused to stand on the court for the National Anthem and then honored Stacey Abrams They ended up LOSING to Indiana Fever 95-91 Lmaooo." BrickCenter @BrickCenter_, "WNBA security told 2 fans to cover their “XX/XY” and “For the girls” shirts or LEAVE the Fever-Dream game. Meanwhile, a “Protect Trans Rights” shirt was featured on the Jumbotron." And Deconstructing Deconstructionism: Royce White and Enes Freedom Tying WNBA Into Knots "Defenders of the WNBA are pointing out, I assume rightly, that the two are just pretending to be women and therefore have no business being in the WNBA. Enes Kantor Freedom and Royce White, on the other hand, are demonstrating by persisting in their efforts that the same is true for every other man who is pretending to be a woman, and they, too, have no business being in women's sports."

Flotsam and Jetsam - The Wisconsin Autopsy Continues

We're still digesting the results of Tuesday's primaries. Teri Christoph at RedState hears Voter Data Was Missing From 5 Milwaukee USB Sticks — Then WI's Election Night Got Even Weirder. So, were the polls wrong, and Hong wasn't as popular as believed, or did the DNC-E step in and rig the results? Kurt Schlichter at TownHall VIP says Ignore the Poll Dancers. Ben Shapiro @benshapiro, "We're watching an enormous misread of the results from Wisconsin. The dumb take is that the DSA has reached its ceiling, and the establishment is fighting back. That's totally wrong. The normie Dems are simply negotiating the terms of their surrender. Those terms are obvious: the Democratic Party will ingest and mirror the key precepts of the DSA, and they won't go whole hog against DSA candidates who don't totally say the quiet part out loud. This is why Slotkin didn't endorse Stevens against El-Sayed in Michigan. It's why Schumer and Jeffries didn't endorse Cuomo against Mamdani in NYC. In return, the DSA's most important figures will refrain from endorsing the very worst candidates. This is why Bernie and AOC didn't endorse Hong. If they had, she would have won. The goal of the pact is obvious: candidates who are DSA in all but name, who receive unified Democratic support after the primaries, and who still have a shot at winning a general election. So don't be fooled: the DSA is driving the car, choosing the direction. The normie Dems are just negotiating over the speed." PJM's Rick Moran on Why the Wisconsin Governors' Race Will Define the Midterms for Republicans. Buck Sexton @BuckSexton, "You can get away with saying lots of crazy things in America today, but "let's cancel Thanksgiving" isn't one of them." Quote The Wall Street Journal @WSJ, "David Crowley narrowly won the Democratic nomination for Wisconsin governor, delivering a significant blow to the insurgent far-left in a nail-biter race." Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "This keeps happening in places with fiercely contested Democrat primaries because you have two lavishly funded ballot harvesting machines battling each other. We can all see this. We know what’s happening here. And we’re doing nothing about it." Quote Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT @Peoples_Pundit, "Wisconsin Democrats are CRUSHING Republicans in turnout." MD Kittle at Da Fed reports the Notorious Wisconsin Election Official At Center Of Zuckbucks Scandal Resigns. Hmmm. 

At PJM, VodkaPundit looks at Mamdani and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week (and It’s Only Wednesday). From NYPo, Manhattan rents reach all-time high of $6,655/month amid Mamdani’s rent freeze and pied-a-terre tax threat. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "Who could have predicted that stupid ideas cooked up by rich squatting nepo babies would backfire and hurt struggling working class New Yorkers."

The Patriarch Tree @PatriarchTree, "The Party of College Educated White Folks Craving Swarthy Foreign Guys — it’s not really about health care policy or “affordability” or whatever. @TheDemocrats are now a BDSM cult organized around some kind of weird masochistic Mandingo fetish." Quote Kyle Smith @rkylesmith, "Don't underestimate the value of looks. El-Sayed won in part because he's good-looking. Mamdani won in large part because he's cute. if Francesca Hong looked as good as AOC she would have won. Easily." Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Hasan Piker: “I don't give a f*** what Black people care about.” “Let's go back to a better time, when lynchings were happening.”" Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "This is how all DSA people speak in private. Every single one. Communists want to destroy your entire way of life, and they will lie to you and pretend like they're not violent psychopaths. Don't let socialists anywhere near power." At TownHall Matt Vespa notes Not Even Joe Scarborough Could Believe What the DSA Co-Chair Said About Hamas and October 7. At Insty, VodkaPundit adds MAYBE A FEW YEARS HARD LABOR: "No Repentance = No Grace For Woke Bullshit. “There was no ‘Woke 1.0,’ just a continuous racialist, anti-Western Civilization, anti-rational, anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-Republican movement whose roots stretch back into the Comintern, Gramsci and the Frankfurt School, carried forward into the Port Huron Statement, the Weather Underground, the campus radicals of the 1960s and their long march through academia and other western institutions... PJM's Vicky Taft hears The Left Is Coming for Your County Sheriff.

From Ace, The FBI and "Intelligence" Agencies Had Intel From 14 Different Sources About the Biden Family's Corruption. Wray Covered It Up and Claimed It Was All "Disinformation" "Christopher Wray was recommended to Trump by Super-Republican Chris Christie. So you know he's a straight shooter." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair has a fainting spell at Pelosi: Biden Declining? Someone Shoulda Said Something! From Tierney's Real News, Laundering Our Tax Dollars. Matt Vespa again, The Initiative That This Top House Republican Said 'There's No Excuse for Delay', fraud. Democrats don't see it as fraud, they see it as constituent services.

From Fortune, Google cofounder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses.

Sarah Anderson at PJM has the sads as Karoline Leavitt Resigns as White House Press Secretary, to be with her family. No, really! From Da Signal, Trump Confirms Karoline Leavitt’s White House Departure. It's too bad, I really enjoyed her "no quarters" attitude with the White House press corpse. 

Nick Arama at RedState enjoys how Marco Rubio's Hilarious Interaction With His Wife Prompts RFK Jr. to Cap It Off With Perfect Reply. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is Totally Into the Way the Trump Cabinet Dogs Each Other, Even Over Cats MORE. Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson, "This is hysterical. Marco disses RFK for his diet. He’s a Pop- Tart guy. I love this Cabinet! @katiemillerpod RUBIO: “No! This is a CRAZY diet. This is a diet that consists of eating sauerkraut and meat. Now you understand like this is not a sustainable thing. He has to travel with coolers of sauerkraut!” “I'm not going to travel the world with a cooler full of sauerkraut. It's ridiculous. I can't do it!” Q: Are you MAHA? RUBIO: “I'm in favor of MAHA. Like I think people should be healthy.” JEANETTE: No, he's not. Q: What's he eat? JEANETTE: Pop-Tarts! RUBIO: The Pop-Tart is one of the great American innovations in the history of the world.”

From Breitbart Bus Dig, The Vibecession Comes for MAGA, "The American right’s views of the U.S. economy deteriorated significantly over the past month." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "There are two really amazing facts about today's CPI report. 1. Blue (Democrat) metros have MUCH higher inflation than Red (Republican) metros. 2. Prescription drug prices have fallen for 7 months -- longest such decline since 1947. Did you hear that? Media ignored it. (1/3)."

John Sexton reports Ukraine Carries Out Major Strike on Russian Grain Terminal.

Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby, "Cenk Uygur: “Everybody knows it’s just Israel falsifying documents to make it look like Iran is trying to kill Trump.” Amir Hajizadeh, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Aerospace Forces: “We aim to kill Trump.”"

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal,  Former SPLC CFO Arrested, AG Blanche Confirms "The SPLC faces federal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering related to its alleged payments to members of the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other groups. While the center claims it was paying informants in order to combat extremism, the Justice Department claims it was propping up the extremism that it claims it exists to oppose. The Justice Department also claims the SPLC opened bank accounts for fictitious entities to funnel cash to the extremists."

At NYPo, the Divine Ms. Devine sees The walls — and evidence — are slowly building around Dr. Anthony Fauci. From the Right Time's Kathy Gyngell, Anthony Fauci: What He Knew, When He Knew It - His AIDS Fearmongering All Over Again, "Fauci's diaries confirm the warnings his critics were demonised and cancelled for raising. But Covid was not the first time this dangerously arrogant doctor had used scaremongering tactics to raise huge amounts of money to fund questionable vaccines."

Shipwreckedcrew lawsplains The Lawfare Over New Postal Rules For Mail-In Ballots Is More Complicated That Most Understand -- You Need A Scorecard To Keep Up. "There are three other cases with District Judges trying to block the Administration but one has gone to the D.C. Circuit where the Administration received a favorable decision." CIS  reports Trump Issues Two New ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Orders, "... inviting challenges the White House will likely relish. Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of law."

At Althouse, "ICE is planning to buy up to $20 million worth of electric gloves designed to allow agents to deliver painful shocks to detainees." "I'm reading "ICE’s new weapon: painful electric shock gloves/The glove is manufactured by a firm called Compliant Technologies" (London Times). The Glove — Generated Low-Output Voltage Emitter — "is not effective through clothing or hair and can be degraded on individuals and animals that are extremely hairy." So what body parts do you grab with your electrified hands? I was able to find what I think is Compliant's manual. My search for "face" only turned up a couple instance of "surface": "Periodic cleaning of the outside surface area of the G.L.O.V.E. SHALL only be done with 'My-Shield' wipes or surface cleaner in order to maintain the warranty on the G.L.O.V.E.""

Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm, "The Jason Arday case 'is an aberration' says Cambridge. Actually it is just the most visible manifestation of a diversity-industrial complex. My @HeterodoxCentre report into UKRI grant funding shows that DEI keywords are up 24 times since 2000 and have doubled since 2020." Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63, "Does anyone believe they don't think they are getting something for their money? Direct interference and propaganda investment are one thing, but this is the longer influence game." Quote Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "Qatar has become the largest overall donor of U.S. colleges and universities since 1986, with $6.3 billion as of late 2025. Over $2 billion of it flowed from Qatar to the U.S. between 2021 and 2024 alone." Hat Hair's John Sexton hears a Northern Virginia High School Has a Major Antisemitism Problem, Yorktown High. "One male Jewish student reported being repeatedly targeted because he wore a kippah, which a female classmate tried to pull off his head. After a male student called him an antisemitic slur, he began covering his kippah with a baseball cap. A female Jewish student said that she was chased because she was Jewish, and other Jewish students described seeing Nazi salutes, hearing Holocaust jokes, and being told that they belonged in a gas chamber or that “Hitler should have finished the job.” 

Amy Curtis hears Sophie Cunningham Has a New Unexpected Ally Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie, "Strange this whole broigus should happen in professional basketball, where 99.9% of the world are, effectively, ‘women’. Per Pablo Torre of Sports Illustrated, if you’re an American man between 20 and 40 years of age and 7 feet tall or more, there’s a 17% chance you’re already in the NBA."

And more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.12.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Francesca Hong Out to Dry

Yesterday was primary day in a few states. The big one to watch, of course, was Wisconsin's Democrat primary, where Francesca Hong, the DSA candidate too radical for Bernie and AOC, was contending with a "normal" Democrat, David Crowley, for Governor. Hong had been polling as the almost prohibitive favorite, by as much as 20 points. At Twitchy, IT'S A BIGGUN! Live Election Results on Twitchy! Primary Night for SC, WI, MN, VT, AL and CT (Shew!). Hat Hair's Capt. Ed sees Panic at the Wisco: Dems Realizing Hong Might Cost Them Midterms. Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank, ""I started off as a sports journalist and ended up a Communist" has turned out to be a depressingly common career arc." Quote Tiffany War Room @TiffanyWarRoom, "HONG: "I was actually trying to become a sports journalist when I first went to college so I learned you sometimes have bad takes on Twitter." Francesca Hong was a full grown adult and member of the Wisconsin Assembly when she said she wanted to abolish the police and prisons." Amy Curtis at TownHall hears David Crowley Says Francesca Hong Is a Liability on Eve of Wisconsin Primary. AG @AGHamilton29, "Just incredible that I hadn’t even heard about this yet. She voted against a bill that criminalized adults trying to sexually pursue children. Dems have themselves a real winner with the DSA candidate in Wisconsin." Quote Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89, "I am now unironically likely R on the Wisconsin gubernatorial race. 7 months ago Francesca Hong voted against a bill that made it illegal for teachers to groom their students for sexual purposes Here’s what happened: A 30-year-old teacher messaged a 13-year-old..." At Althouse, The race was close, but Francesca Hong has conceded and the risk of a democratic socialist Governor for Wisconsin is over., "At least this time around. Here's the NYT report (gift link):" "Why were the polls so bad?! The final Marquette poll, from July 22–27, released July 29, had Hong at 38% and Crowley at 7%."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, 'I Was Just a Kid' Is the Excuse for Being Insane the Last Few Years. Sean Hannity @seanhannity, "Nothing says "principled stance" like needing two different answers six years apart. AOC vs. AOC on defunding the police, side by side." Hat Hair's Scott Pinsker sort of admires The Cunning Genius of AOC’s ‘Woke’ Reboot. At UnHerd, Ryan Zickgraf claims ‘Woke One’ derailed my life, "AOC can’t laugh off its excesses." Robby Soave at Reason begs us Don't Let AOC Retcon Her Starring Role in 'Woke 1' "Would President AOC eschew wokeness? I doubt it." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Democrats Announce You Aren't Allowed To Remember What They Did A Few Years Ago." Ian Haworth @ighaworth, "I love the way we’re talking about 2020 like it’s 1920, and 1619 like it’s 2025." Quote ABC News @ABC, "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her support for defunding the police in 2020: “During lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.” Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "By the way, AOC is being very public about getting her eggs frozen for future use because she thinks it’ll allow her to take on the mantle of “motherhood”, having a stake in the game of being concerned for the future for the sake of her children, without having to actually deal with the raising children part. Cynical? Perhaps, but I’m pretty sure that’s the idea here."

Capt. Ed cites El-Sayed: Let Me Tell You Why July 4 Fireworks 'S**k'. At Twitchy, Scott Jennings Says Holiday Hatred Is Window Into Souls of Dem Party’s Anti-American Candidates “I think these are windows into the souls of these anti-American, radical communists.” “If you hate Thanksgiving and you hate the 4th of July, what you’re really saying is I hate some of the pillars that undergird American culture.” “And how are you going to have a conversation with a voter about affordability or public safety or anything else, if you’re trying to get rid of Thanksgiving and the 4th of July?” Hat Hair's Dave Strom heaars Hasan Piker Says It Out Loud: DSA Practicing Taqiyya. Max @MaxNordau, "Abdul El-Sayed surrogate Hasan Piker explains the importance of lying to voters: "I think our politicians, whether they be AOC or anybody else, they're not running away from progress." "So their pragmatism isn't to moderate on their policies. Their pragmatism is to moderate on their comms, on their communication." He admits that El-Sayed's true beliefs are "electoral poison": "You got to moderate your message, even if you don't want to temper your movement, in order to sell it to the public."" Michael Goodwin at NYPo opines the Michigan Senate race displays the radical ‘shift’ the Democratic Party has taken. Jim Geraghty at NRO observes The DSA Has Slogans, but Isn’t Interested in Policies. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "It's kind of a domestic Death to America theme." Quote Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee "Democrats’ top candidate in Texas won’t eat meat, their leading nominee in Wisconsin hates Thanksgiving, and now their guy in Michigan is coming out against football. Banner year, guys." Dave Strom sees They're Spoiled Brats: DSA Bigwigs Not Doing Well Under the Klieg Lights. At PJM, VodkaPundit cites DSA on Illegals: 'You Don’t Have to Have Papers to Have Power.' Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Nithya Raman's partner at DSA LA says their goal is to completely abolish police & prisons. When asked what happens if a girl gets raped? Her answer? "I want to talk about street lights." These communists are insane. Crazy slovenly malcontents." Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "The most notable statistical outcome of the George Floyd Revolution was a significant increase in the black homicide death rate. That is the actual legacy of BLM.." Quote Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia "The anti-racism book boom made a handful of authors rich. The struggle sessions gave wealthy academic elites a new industry. Meanwhile, did any core data point move? Black life expectancy, the wealth gap, homeownership. Where’s the change? Is the country’s consciousness raised?" At Hat Hair, Mark Judge cites Henry Rollins: 'Communist Countries Suck.'

Dana Loesch @DLoesch, "The terror-loving nepo baby who VERBATIM demanded the NYPD be defunded NOW demands that the same officers risk their lives by traveling with his selfie-obsessed wife so she can make a personal visit to a country for which the US maintains a Level 4: do not travel advisory." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Mamdani blames his staff after NYPD denies NYC's first lady a police escort to the Middle East." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair hears Mrs. Mamdani Won't Get to Take New York's Finest to Syria With Her. wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "The very word "Pied-à-Terre" provides a glimpse into Mamdani's world that few ordinary people are familiar with. It goes back to a world before motels, air BNBs and time share. In that world the well-to-do person had a country house and primary residence. Then he had a town house or pied-à-terre as a private urban foothold for the family or individual during the Season. ... Perhaps Mamdami still sees the world in terms of the top-hatted, tuxedo wearing, diamond tie pin garbed, pied-a-terre dwelling capitalist elite which it is his moral duty to tax. But I think the world has changed."

Amy Curtis at Town Hall hears Republicans for Talarico Disbands After We Learned It Was a Really Just a Bunch of Democrats. Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy, "I ran into a “Republicans for Talarico” type lady here once, came into my replies talking about how she was a lifelong conservative Republican voter who’d been forced to support Democrats because of how radical the Republican Party had become, so I searched her history and found stuff with her talking about how she’d left the Republican Party because it was too radical… in 2008. Because John McCain was too radical for her." Quote Zach Kraft @ZachKraft7 "RIP "Republicans for Talarico" The Talarico campaign is now officially distancing themselves from the failed group after it was exposed to be made up of lifelong Democrats."

Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian, "Remember this when someone says voting doesn’t matter." Quote Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "WOW: Recount In The Indiana State Senate Race FLIPS Seat to Trump-Rndorsed Paula Copenhaver By THREE Votes She unseated State Senator Spencer Deery, who OPPOSED redistricting." ThePersistence @ScottPresler, "BREAKING NEWS I can’t believe they reported this — they just told on themselves." “Allegheny County Elections Division Manager David Voye said Allegheny County does not have a system to verify citizenship for voters.”The second-largest county in Pennsylvania DOES NOT verify the citizenship of the voters it registers to vote. This is a constitutional crisis." I'll bet that is widely true across the US, especially in blue areas. Althouse finds
"... a blast from the past! The New York Times hasn’t pulled out the infamous 'beer test' for a political candidate since May 22, 2015..." ""... when it ran ['Finding a Candidate You’d Like to Have a Beer With.'] The 'beer test' was once a massively overused campaign reporting cliché. It grew out of a Sam Adams ad campaign in the 2000 race, and from Bush-Gore through the 2016 cycle it was nearly impossible to escape 'beer test' coverage. Then Donald Trump won the 2016 beer test by default — it was hard to imagine Hillary Clinton having a beer at all — leading even Slate to pronounce 'there has never been and perhaps never will be a candidate you’d be more eager to have a beer with than Donald Trump.' That's Matt Taibbi, in "Cliché Alert: Return of the 'Beer Test'/The New York Times reverts to old form, thanks to a blue-party schism" (Racket)."

Amy Curtis hears Virginians Are Turning on Abigail Spanberger. Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA, "Governor Spanberger booed in Galax. Turns out when you break your campaign promise, attempt a Leftist power grab pushing an unconstitutional gerrymandering effort In order to silence rural Virginia voices, coupled with massive tax increases, it results in a frosty reception…." To be fair is wasn't in North by God Virginia.

Hey, Did You Know That the Hunter Biden Laptop Was a Jewish Conspiracy? from Dave Strom. John Sexton hears Paramount CEO Threatens to Exit California after "a group of blue state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta sued to block the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger."

At the Breitbart Bus Dig, The Trump Manufacturing Jobs Revival Is Accelerating. Sundance at CTH reports President Trump Announces Release of Robert Gilman from Russian Jail. Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson, "You want to know why @realDonaldTrump is focused on Greenland? He’s always one step ahead." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: China launches new “Ice Silk Road,” connecting China to the U.K. through the Arctic & cutting the journey roughly in half." Bob Hoge at RedState, British Royal Navy Discovers Spy Cams on K3 Scout Vessels — Data Was Going Straight to China. I wouldn't be shocked at all to hear that's happening here too. 

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "IT'S OFFICIAL: By the stroke of pen and flanked by RFK Jr., President Trump establishes a new US vaccine schedule that decreases the number of jabs from 72 to 11 — and spreads them out over multiple visits, rather than pumping the child all at once "That's a big one in my book!" MAHA is alive and well!"

Frank Miele at RCP has  A Modest Proposal: Performance Reviews for Senators. Good luck with that!

Larry, in a Hat Hair vid, sees CNN Hosts Triggered by Trump's Escape From Iranian Threat. Doug Powers @ThePowersThatBe, "The story: Iran had a serious plot to kill the president. The headlines: OMG Secret Service protected the president and not every asshole in the media." Quote Jake Tapper @jaketapper, "So the USSS thought the threat against the president was strong enough to surreptitiously remove him from AF1. And then proceeded to let the plane full of White House staffers and reporters take off and fly back to the US." Cathy Salgado at PJM cites an Iranian Media Official: No More Negotiations With Trump. It's not like they negotiate in good faith. 

UK Defense J confirms American warship downs drones with laser weapon, only a test.

Jonathan Turley sees Sam Alito is Locked and Loaded . . . and He is Not Going Anywhere. Jeffrey Rosen discusses America on the Docket: The 2026 Supreme Court at great length.

From Sundance at CTH, The Safety and Efficacy of the COVID-19 Vaccination was Based on Scientific Theories and Medical Speculation. Beege Welborn insists Fauci's Phone Proves 'for the Children' Just Another Fascist Oppression Tool.

Sarah Anderson at PJM says Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why. From NewsWeek, Map Shows H-1B Visa Filings in Democratic and Republican Districts, blue uses more, but it's a bipartisan boondoggle.

Beege Welborn thinks Stopping UK Migrant Inflow Going Swimmingly — 'Swimming' Being Operative Word. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There From babylonbee.com" Elon Musk @elonmusk, "How much is it?"

From Althouse, "Zuckerberg acknowledged 'a risk that an imbalance of power between individuals and government leads to a loss of freedom or totalitarian state.'", ""His solution was to create superintelligence which ensured that users were responsible for deciding the model’s values, not the developer. He said there should be 'a fully private mode for personal agents where even Meta or any other service provider cannot see or grant access to your information.'"From "Five key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto/The Meta founder outlines a vision of free superintelligent personal AI agents, smaller workforce teams and expanded open-source tech across the nation" (London Times)."

Sundance sees Police and Federal Govt use of Flock Cameras Under Scrutiny. 

At Complete Colorado, Colorado’s one-party rulers enjoy a progressive press pass. 

C Brad Thompson, the Redneck Intellectual, calls The Jason Arday Story The Worst Academic Scandal in 817 Years! Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz, "Cambridge University: first the Jason Arday disaster, now this. They’ve appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education — a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims, democracy a “corrupt tradition,” and literacy plus qualifications un-Islamic. She attacked English literature as damaging, condemned treating Islam as just one religion among others, and criticised schools for teaching that child marriage is wrong. Same faculty. Same total collapse of standards. Shocking doesn’t begin to cover it." Rod Dreher @roddreher, "Conquest's Third Law Of Politics: "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies." You really don't need more than that to explain why Cambridge University does the things it does." Quote The Spectator @spectator, "We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.
Farah Ahmed has explicitly attacked 'western education' as a 'threat' to..." Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper, "This is a story about a college lost down the rabbit hole of performative progressivism. But at its heart, it’s about labor exploitation, the hell we put contingent profs through, and how the collapse of the tenure-system paved the way for cowardice and pseudo-radical groupthink." Quote The Atlantic @TheAtlantic, "@Tyler_A_Harper landed his dream job, a tenure-track position at an elite liberal-arts college—but he found himself “being treated like a racial prop rather than a professor.” Read more in our newest cover story: https://theatln.tc/uAlYLOai." John Sexton says Tyler Austin Harper's Take on Woke Campus Life is Worth a Read. From the Slantic,Tyler Austin Harper on Why I Quit the Tenure Track, "The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia." 

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen, "“Grandpa, I just don’t understand. How was it that given how powerful the United States was, China was able to overtake us and dominate the world?” “Well.. it all started when they examined the whiteness of physics"" Quote David Decosimo @DavidDecosimo, "Never forget that the NSF gave half a million dollars for a ‘critical whiteness studies’ project claiming physics was racist because of its objectivity, meritocracy, & use of whiteboards. Their data were a few videos of in class group work using dry erase boards. Just incredible. x.com/daviddecosimo/…"

From TOI, UK probes major Muslim charity after director charged with funneling aid to Hamas. "FBI alleges Al-Khair Foundation head worked with senior Hamas leader to transfer cash and divert humanitarian supplies to terror group while concealing that it was the beneficiary." Seth Mandel at Commentary, How ‘Israeli’ Came to Mean ‘Jewish’ in the American Press.

Lola @thefempire50, "You’re going to have to explain the difference between a man saying he’s a woman and a man saying he’s a woman." Quote Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie, "Saying “identifies as transgender for the purpose of playing professional basketball,” is admitting that you’re only doing this as a stunt to mock trans women, which makes you a bigot. x.com/foxnews/status…" John Sexton hears from WPATH: Our Standards of Care Are Just an Opinion, you don't say... Vodkapundit at PJM sees Trans Rep Sarah McBride Has a Sad but Can't Stop Laughing "“Support on individual issues facing the trans community, on individual policies around trans rights, by every objective metric, is worse today than it was five years ago,” McBride said."

And more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.11.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Another Rough Start up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.