Flotsam and Jetsam - Desperately Searching for a Theme

And not finding it, so I'll just start at the top and work down. Sundance at CTH is back on a Russia kick with President Vladimir Putin Explains Why NATO Wants a War Against Russia, Oil, Gas and Orange Juice and “One Ping Only, Vasily”. From News Wax, Putin at BRICS: Warns Europe Over Ukraine, Urges Challenge to U.S. Dollar. Back to sundance for President Trump Announces Obamacare Refunds, President Trump Speaks to Journalists Departing from Shannon, Ireland and President Trump Discusses a “United Ireland” as Prime Minister Carney Seeks “Associate Member” EU Status. At Althouse, "President Trump said he 'loved' the political backlash to his comments in support of a united Ireland." ""Speaking before he attended the last day of the Irish Open golf tournament, Trump doubled down on his claim that reunification was inevitable and 'may as well happen now.' Asked about the reaction to his comments, which were criticised by political parties in Westminster and Stormont, Trump said he 'loved' the reaction. 'I loved my comments,' he added." From "Trump revels in ‘united Ireland’ uproar as Gerry Adams weighs in/With the US president ‘loving’ the stir his comments made, the former Sinn Fein leader says they reflect a wider sentiment held by Americans" (London Times)."

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Here in the States we are aware not all Canadians are dicks. The polling plus stadiumsful of boos just seems to indicate most are. We’re concerned about the plight of Canadians. It doesn’t serve our interests to have an impoverished third world nation beholden to the PRC on our northern border. We’d rather see you prosper. All of us get richer. But elections have consequences. ..." Quote Lisa @YoungStreete, "Americans are starting to look at Canadians differently. And Canadians may want to pay attention. For as long as I can remember, Americans always liked their polite neighbours to the north. That goodwill is being eroded by a Canada increasingly seen as woke, anti- American (not just anti-Trump) and brainwashed by the state run media. CBC News whitewashing 9/11 (please don’t call it a terrorist attack). CTV News making 9/11 about “Islamophobia”. When did remembering the VICTIMS of 9/11 become so controversial in Canada and how did we allow it to happen? How much further does Canada have to slide into insanity before Canadians finally wake up?" Ken Timmerman at Am Great explains why It’s Time to Recognize Iran’s Complicity in the 9/11 Attacks. "The 9/11 Commission highlighted Iran's complicity in the attacks on pages 240-241 of its final report." CIS looks at the numbers, Since 9/11, the Number of Immigrants from the Muslim World Has Grown by 1.8 Million. "Population doubling largely reflects legal immigration." I24 News has a Report: Chinese satellite images aided Iranian strike that killed 3 US troops in Jordan. Labrador Skeptic @SaysSimulation, "A Chinese surveillance satellite breaking up into little pieces right after US troops were killed with the help of a Chinese satellite is quite the amazing coincidence, now that you mention it. Gray Zone warfare in space, but that's a dark shade of gray." Quote Theophilus Chilton (Scots-Irish Supremacist) @Theo_Chilton, "Replying to @SaysSimulation, "Probably why a Chinese surveillance satellite "broke apart" in orbit yesterday." Ace is not all that upset that Saudi Arabia Is Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place...Oh Well!

At the Eternally Radical Idea, Greg Lukianoff has Reflections on 9/11, FIRE releases 2027 College Free Speech Rankings, AdGo & I parse AI’s ‘librarian’ from its ‘car keys’, & more! From the College Fix, Conservative students’ 9/11 memorial defaced with pro-Palestinian, pro-Antifa vandalism. From I&I, 25 Years After 9/11, America Dotes On Its Enemies.

From News Wax, Trump: 'Whoever Wins AI Wins' and US House Speaker Warns Curbing AI Too Sharply Could Leave China Ahead. Sundance claims Barack Obama Tells Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to Organize the AI Control Bill for #1 Priority Passage Following the Midterm Elections.

Doog @doogadoo11, "I'll be the first to admit the GOP has been shit But Trump has been amazing And that's why I will Vote Red up and down the ballot in November I want to position him for as much success as possible during his final two years." What he said.

Vic Nava at NYPo hears Ilhan Omar ‘married her brother’ and could be deported: DHS secretary. Show me the DNA test. PJM's Bob Spencer asks and answers What Happens When We Elect People Who Hate America to Congress? This. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn giggles at MSNOW whining Fetterman's Surprise GOP Convention Video was a Trap and Dems Are Falling Into It. Also at Hat Hair Larry Elder examines The David Duke Standard and The Hasan Piker Exception, and Betsy McCaughey wants to Call in the Feds to Investigate Lawless Mamdani. Nick Arama at RedState sees Talarico Gets Nailed for Another Whopper About His Donations That Leaves Jaws Dropping. Joe Chalfant at TownHall thinks Dan Sullivan Just Handed Mary Peltola a Debate Beatdown. Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Incredible. Rachel Maddow didn’t push back on Karen Bass AT ALL as she calls the Palisades Fire investigation a waste of time & resources. Lady…6K homes burned, hundreds of people died, and you illegally deleted all of your messages. Integrity is dead." No Pasaran! says If someone suggests using a Nazi concentration camp for their opponents, aren't they in fact the actual… Nazis?

At Twin Cities.com, Joe Soucheray: Start by using words correctly. These are not ‘homeless camps’, they're just bums. Da Signals Tyler O'Neil calls it ‘ANTI-DEMOCRATIC’: Nonprofits That Received Tax Dollars Unite to Oppose Rules Cracking Down on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. Waste, fraud and abuse is their bread and butter. The last thing they want to do is end it.

From the Victory Girls Clancy Holdout Juror Now The Target Of Media Doxxing. PJM's Vicky Taft wants you to Guess Who Helped Doxx the Holdout Juror in the Lindsay Clancy Case. The defense attorney's wife? At TownHall Matt Vespa thinks What a Lindsay Clancy Juror Said About This Case Is Just Insane "“This would be something that could change something to make it better for other women,” said juror Paula Devlin."

Sensurround @ShamashAran, "nothing to see here, just the @ACLU celebrating Charlie Kirk's death at a fundraiser." Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "They didn’t even hide it. A year after they murdered Charlie Kirk, an account asks “Who should get Kirked next?” and puts JD Vance on the list, right next to Scott Presler and Nick Shirley. That’s not a joke. That’s a hit list with a question mark. Protect the VP. Investigate the poster. And stop pretending this culture of celebrating assassination is free speech." Quote ThePersistence @ScottPresler, "“Who should get Kirked next? Leave your answer in the replies! Shirley, Presler, Vance, the list goes on!” Evan, that’s not very nice, especially since you’re in Philadelphia, PA." Matt Vespa is annoyed This Virginia City Seems OK Blowing Taxpayer Dollars on a Gross Anti-Charlie Kirk Display. Hat Hair's Josh Hammer thinks America Has Not Learned the Right Lessons From Charlie Kirk's Murder. No, liberals learned they can get away with "stochastic terrorism."

From Twitchy, 'Birthing Person' Jones Tried to Smear XX-XY's Jennifer Sey and It Was a MASSIVE Backfire. jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL, "Shouldn't you be called Birthing Person Jones?" Quote Mother Jones @MotherJones, "Jennifer Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear startup that openly calls transgender people’s identity a “lie,” has spent the last two and a half years stoking the flames of the national panic over trans athletes. Enter Sophie Cunningham."

Sarah McLaughlin at Expression expresses disbelief at Australia’s top bureaucrats who want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos, "The clips can ‘invite ridicule’ of public officials." If you can't stand the heat, get out of the limelight.

Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm, "White liberals remain the only segment of society that prefers other races to their own." Quote Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil, "A few years back, a friend of mine looked into the 2018 American National Election Study pilot, and he found that every racial group felt warmth towards members of their own race, except for White liberals I wanted to see if that replicated and expand on it."

Timur Kuran @timurkuran, "Carnegie Mellon is paying the price for a 2021 hire made amid the moral panic that followed George Floyd. The professor’s thin research record, narrow intellectual range, and political activism should have prompted serious scrutiny. In a freer intellectual climate, hiring committees might have said plainly that no appointment was warranted, let alone a tenure-track appointment involving decades of commitment by a distinguished university..." Quote Carnegie Mellon University @CarnegieMellon, "Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely." Tim Groseclose @Tim_Groseclose "Brilliant post by Prof. @timurkuran. Yes, the bigger problem CMU needs to face is how this woman got hired in the first place. If I were president of CMU, I'd do an in-depth look at the Dept. of Modern Languages." From Campus Reform, Education satisfaction hits record low as college readiness declines. Inside Higher Ed, After Kirk’s Death, a Third of Students Say Posting ‘MAGA’ Is a Fireable Offense. "The Israel-Palestine conflict remains the most taboo topic on college campuses, according to FIRE’s latest free speech report."

The Return of Flotsam and Jetsam

Yes, I'm back from my Syrupean fishing vacation. I made it home by late in the afternoon Friday, and after putting away the mess, a quick trip to the Drs, Gabby's soccer game, and general fatigue, I didn't get much accomplished yesterday.

It was interesting traveling out of Minneapolis/St. Paul on the morning of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Speaking of which, according to NYPo, AOC spotted laughing next to Mamdani at 9/11 ceremony — as victims’ families weep during reading of names. Hat Hair's Dave Strom calls it Enraging: AOC and Mamdani Laugh It Up at 9/11 Memorial As Names of the Victims Read. Ace, Victory Lap: Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Does "Interfaith" Walk on 9/11, Which Ends at... Islamic Center, "Unbelievable," and Twenty Five Years After 9/11, Most Have Forgotten -- and the Children Who Were Born After the Terrorist Attack are Being Taught That Muslims Were the Victims and Americans the Racist Aggressors, "How on earth was this allowed to happen?" At Twitchy, Abigail Spanberger Gets TORCHED on X for Claiming Americans 'Lost Their Lives' on 9/11. PJM's Vicky Taft has one of her West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Nothing Says 'We Hate America' Quite as Much as UCLA's 9/11 Event. TownHall's Matt Vespa likes how Bill Maher Zeroed in on the Biggest Moral Cowards Post-9/11. It's Exactly Who You Think. "Maher added that the biggest cowards post-9/11 are Democratic Party politicians, whose moral confusion, which has become cancerous over the past quarter century since the attacks, has been laid bare by the Gaza War: a strip of land the Israelis gave back as part of a peace deal, made possible when then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ditched Likud to form the now-defunct Kadima Party. It was later taken over by Hamas, a terrorist organization, and used to launch attacks on Israel. Israel launched a counterattack after the equivalent of their 9/11, the October 7 attacks, isn’t genocide. And yet, it’s the issue Democrats police their candidates like the Gestapo—they must say it, or at least not bash the terrorists."

Nicole Russell at USA Today, As Texas Senate race tightens, Talarico's mask is slipping. "Newly surfaced comments on capitalism, faith and abortion reveal Texas state Rep. James Talarico is more progressive than his campaign lets on. Voters are starting to notice." Hat Hair's Capt. Ed had Saturday's Final Word. @amuse @amuse, "TEXAS SENATE RACE: Would you be surprised to learn that the architect of James Talarico's political career is a trans man who attended Furman University and got a degree in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies? Tyler Mitchell, now known as Hyacinth High (they/them/theirs), shaped Talarico's campaigns and ensured they were staffed primarily by LGBTQ folks, with a particular focus on hiring trans staffers. Hyacinth is now Regional Campaigns Director at The Fairness Project. Texas doesn't need someone with Talarico's extreme ideology representing the interests of Texans." Capt. Ed was pretty happy when The Cavalry Arrived: Senate GOP Drops $32 Million Into Texas for Paxton. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn thinks the Dems Got Themselves a Case of the Cray Crays and They Just Can't Seem to Shake the Loons Off. But Driscoll at Insty notes DEMOCRATIC PARTY PULLS SUPPORT FOR NC HOUSE CANDIDATE SHELLY HEADEN: The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1, "Report: North Carolina Democrats have withdrawn support for State House candidate Shelly Headen after she called for violence against Republicans and compared herself to Jesus Christ She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.” She said: “I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,” she said. “If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it. MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right.”" Tippinsights wonders Sen. Tafoya? Minnesota Polling Shows a Dead Heat. AMAC warns Don’t Buy Democrats’ “Farm Revolt” Narrative, "The media is buzzing about a brewing farmland revolt against Republicans in November. But that narrative has far less basis in reality than Democrats would have Americans believe."

Hat Hair's John Sexton has A San Francisco Squatter Story for the Ages. Variety worries Paramount Leaving California Would Devastate Los Angeles Economy, Leaked Report Finds. From the OC Reg, Orange man gets 30 years for role in $269 million Medi-Cal fraud. 

Stacy McCain considers the The Permanent Problem of Liberalism "You see the point of this narrative — the emotional payoff of the melodrama — is that the liberal is always the hero, deserving praise and admiration for his courage in opposing the Republican villain. Once you recognize this, you realize why there is no point arguing with the liberal. He cannot be persuaded by facts or logic, because facts and logic are not the basis of his belief system. And this is why I say that liberalism is a permanent problem. If we could not vanquish liberalism in 70 years, during which time we had such brilliant minds as Buckley advocating for the conservative cause, isn’t it the height of folly to imagine we’ll be able to declare a final victory anytime in the foreseeable future?"

Da Signal has two from the Great Victor Davis Hanson: When Will the Iranian People Overthrow the Regime? and Canadians Feel Real Pain in Stage 4 of Trade War. I have to see, I didn't see a lot of pain there. At Hat Hair, Salena Zito is pleased with the 'Trump Power Plant' Coming to Fayette County, the Largest Investment in Its History. Dennis Santiago at RedState sees a Firestorm Ignited Over Proposed US Census Rules. Here Is What Citizens Can Do About It. Taking the illegals, and other non-residental aliens out of the count for apportionment.

Twitchy calls it PERFECTION! Guess Who Rescued a Stranded Anti-Trump MS NOW Crew in the TX Desert: New York Post @nypost, "MS NOW crew gets stuck in Texas desert - and has to be rescued by Border Patrol https://trib.al/nsL6CAq."

From Ace, The "Rogue" Juror the Extreme Left-Wing AWFUL Karens Berated and Bullied for a Week? B L A C K and Of Course: Garbage Tier Network NBC Is Now Doxxing the Lone "Rogue" Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Case, "The media exists solely for purposes of blackmail and incitement to murder." Sister Toldja at RedState says Whoa: NBC News 'Tries to Bury' Holdout Clancy Juror, but DeSantis Makes Him an Offer They Won’t Like. Sundance at CTH, NBC Targets and Doxxes Lindsay Clancy Juror Holdout – Visits Home, Searches, Investigates Family and Worse. Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog, "They’re flat out doxxing an anonymous juror because he didn’t acquit a triple murderer. These people are evil beasts. Demons from hell. Sue, you deserve nothing but shame and scorn. You despicable freak." Quote Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter @SueOC_NBCBoston, "EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members ..."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "I have no words… USA Today says the people mocking Charlie’s ass*ssination is actually good because they’re just using humor to deal with it emotionally USA Today is covering up for the violent scum who want us dead and celebrate m*rder I can’t believe this is real They have no shame."

From the Robinson Report a Chinese National Accused of of Illegally Modifying Homeland Security Computers - MWTV. "A Chinese national working as a CBP supervisor in Calais was charged after investigators said 46 government computers were altered at Maine border facilities."

Matt Margolis at PJM, Were You Hoping Jessica Tarlov Would Get Fired From Fox News? I've Got Some News. Three year contract. They need someone to spew the DNC line, Harold won't.

Ace finds out The UK Branded Turning Point Members as Dangerous Right Wing Extremists, Claimed Leftists, On the Other Hand, Were "Moderate". "They actually tracked and surveilled Turning Point UK members because they thought they were dangerous -- after a leftist killed Charlie Kirk. They feared they would agitate for "free speech," which is of course dangerous to a corrupt authoritarian and wildly unpopular regime. They also complained that the "ERW" -- "extreme right wing" -- blamed Kirk's assassination on "the political left." I am done with the UK. I am done with NATO."

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal is outraged Parents Can’t Escape Washington’s Transgender Policies by Changing Schools, Supreme Court Brief Argues.

And much, much more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 09.11.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Finally, A Winning Week awaiting your digital pleasure.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Lights Up Iran Again

This will be the last flotsam and jetsam for a while. Going out of town, and the county, up to Canukistan for a boys only fishing trip with Pete and a bunch of fish fanatics. Internet is likely to be sketchy, although Pete and one other guy have promised to bring Star Links. Hopefully, though, I'll be able to post some big fish pics. But don't worry, to keep you coming I've preloaded some morning eye-openers. 

Now back to the news. PJM's Cathy Salgado reports Trump Confirms ‘Large and Powerful’ Strikes Near Hormuz Strait, in retaliation for some attempted attacks on US forces in the region, and on allies. From News Wax, US Hit Iranian Tankers in 'Tanker-for-Tanker' Escalation. PJM's VodkaPundit says You Gotta Be Kidding Me: We're Still Playing 'Let's Make a Deal!' With Iran? Well, you have to be able to talk, in case they get serious. In the meantime, you have to put up with their bullshit. From I&I, What Will TDS Sufferers Do If The U.S. Wins The Iran War? Deny and obfuscate, of course. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Suspicions Of Ayatollah's Death Rise After His Name Appears On California Voter Rolls," and Illinois and Michigan, and Massachusetts and Maryland... 

At Insty VodkaPundit notes COMPLAINING ABOUT MEMES IS HOW YOU GET MORE MEMES: Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Mark Carney declares Canada will only resume trade talks with the U.S. when Americans “stop doing memes.” Stephen Kruiser at PJM says Begun, the Meme Assault on Canada Has... Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Turns out all we need to do to win the Canada war is memeTF out of them. (It’s like drones. A total battlespace gamechanger. Only even cheaper.)" Quote Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Mark Carney Says He will Start Trade Talks Again Once "Americans stop making memes" Internet — You know what to do." At Pirate's Cove, LOL: Canada’s PM Whines About Memes During Trade Spat. At the NatPo, (CA), Joel Kotkin worries Carney aligns with the anti-free speech China and EU. News Wax reports Apple Maps Changes Name of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'. Wundermap still hasn't. VodkaPundit thinks THE SECOND-ORDER EFFECTS ARE OUTSTANDING: The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial, "Canada is enticing academics to leave the US due to Trump’s crackdowns on research funding for topics like climate, equity, and gender studies."

Hat Hair's Beege Welborn is satisfied now that Keir Starmer Just Quit Parliament, Too. From USA Today, 'Cuba is opening up.' Reforms begin as US tightens grip. 

Ars Technica explains Why it matters that President Trump just dialed in to a NASA news conference. 

Eli Lake @EliLake, "If JD Vance thinks he can win in 2028 and still be aligned with this mental patient, he’s smoking meth." Quote Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger, "WHOA: Tucker just called for President Trump and the congressmen pushing for American-Israeli military cooperation in the NDAA to face Nuremberg-style treason charges."

Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "Remember for reasons that have never quite been explained Donald Trump can win an election, but doesn’t have a right to do the things the president does, again because reasons." Quote Roger Parloff @rparloff, "Letting Trump’s WH Ballroom go forward, SCOTUS majority misleads from the 1st sentence, calling it a “federal govt” project. But it's not. It's a Trump project. That's why it’s illegal. He failed to get Congress’s permission. The 4 dissenters (at right) correct the record, also 1st sentence. ..."

Driscoll at Insty, WHICH IS WHY WE NEVER SEE THE OMELETTE. From Althouse, "Last week, Dr. El-Sayed mused in a social media post about whether the vice president would take her 'back in time to meet Papaw' if he could..." "... referring to Mr. Vance’s deceased grandfather and seeming to imply that he would not have approved of the Vances’ interracial marriage." Racism straight up. At NewsBusters, HYSTERICAL Oliver Darcy MELTS DOWN Over CBS Story on El-Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Tweets. Speaking of old stuff, Capt. Ed at Hat Hair has Talarico in 2020: Capitalism Is White Supremacy and Texas Oil Is Kinda Racist. Twitchy enjoys a Capitalism Clash: Kmele Foster Slaps Jemele Hill With Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ on CNN. Hayden Daniel at Da Fed, Leftists Will Never Self-Reflect, And They Will Never Apologize For The Horrors They Inflict. DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "http://DATAREPUBLICAN.COM STRIKES AGAIN: TRUMPBLOGS, FORMERLY KNOWN AS NOBLOGS THE ANARCHIST INTERNATIONAL ON NOBLOGS, MAPPED — EVERY BLOG, EVERY CELL, EVERY CITY. The militant far-left has spent years hiding in plain sight on http://Noblogs.org — the anonymous blog network that quietly powers antifa, anarchist, squat, and "solidarity" cells around the world. So on my own time, for free, I scraped the whole thing. Because I kick commie *** for fun and need no government funding or sanction for it. Introducing an interactive map of 7000+ blogs across many countries and languages — antifascist, anarchist, ecological, prisoner-solidarity, migrant-border, revolutionary. Every one classified, geolocated, and searchable down to the verbatim quote...."

Shipwreckedcrew, sees lawsplains a Federal Judge Almost Certain To Block New Mail-In Voting Regulation Based On Her Previous Ruling It Is “Ultra Vires” - Is She Right And Will It Stand Up?. "She found the E.O. on which the regulation is based was an unlawful exercise of authority the President does not have because the mechanics of conducting elections are given to Congress and States." Cathy Salgado hears 400,000 California Voters Didn't Provide Any ID at Registration, but that's OK because no one ever lies.

RedState's Bob Hoge is disgusted that Lindsay Clancy Trial Gets More Insane As Woman Arrested for Interfering With Jurors. At Da Wire, Nancy Mace opines Lindsay Clancy’s Children Are Dead And The Jury Is Deadlocked. The whole thing is just sad. Driscoll at Insty is not entirely satisfied that TYLER ROBINSON TO STAND TRIAL IN CHARLIE KIRK MURDER CASE WITH SUSPECT FACING POTENTIAL DEATH PENALTY. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Firing squad would be appropriate. Aim for the neck."

At Da Signal, Legal Fight Escalates Over Leftist Billionaire’s Funding of E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Trump.

JTN reports Feds seize domains in San Diego to block China from cyber hacking entities, from NASA to the Fed, "Federal law enforcement has seized core infrastructure reportedly used by a Chinese state-sponsored cyber platform to target high-profile U.S. government entities and critical infrastructure in a campaign dating back to 2018."

Althouse, "In 1986, Justice Byron R. White... summoned his clerks to his chambers for a special assignment that took several weekends. Together they marked his quarter-century on the court..." "... by feeding his records, including from the landmark Miranda rights case, into a shredder purchased for the occasion, according to Dennis J. Hutchinson, his biographer. 'Well, here’s an article. Here’s an entire book,' one of the clerks later told Mr. Hutchinson, describing what it was like to insert invaluable history into the jaws of the machine. 'I couldn’t believe how much history was going down the chute,' he said." Writes Jodi Kantor "How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History/After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades" (NYT gift link)."

From NYPo, ICE nabs over 2K illegal migrants across NY in ‘Operation Rotten Apple’ — including child rapists, killers and Markwayne Mullin says DHS rolling out border biometric scans ‘as fast as we can’ after massive underreporting of foreigners’ rap sheets. Cathy Salgado happy, DHS Arrests More Than 2,000 Illegal Aliens in New York ‘Operation Rotten Apple’ Matt Vespa at TownHall cites Sen Moreno to CT Gov: an Ohioan Was Killed by an Illegal With a CT Driver's License. Please Explain? Townhall.com @townhallcom, "Marcus Coleman, the father of a 5-year-old girl who was severly disabled in a car accident caused by an illegal alien driving an 18-wheeler, goes OFF on Democrats for their fake sympathy. "I reject your guys' sympathy to be honest with you. There’s no way you guys are sorry […] My daughter doesn't deserve this […] It is your guys’ fault. I hold each and every one of you responsible for it." From the Virginia Pilot, a Judge temporarily blocked part of Virginia’s new immigration enforcement law. "The law, which took effect July 1, placed new restrictions on localities’ agreements with federal immigration authorities. Under the law, new and existing 287(g) agreements — contracts that deputize local law enforcement to do immigration enforcement — would be required to abide by the new restrictions." Rep. Fallon to Newsmax: Make Birth Tourism a Crime. I like the idea, but I'm not sure I know how that works. At Not The Bee, Not the Bee Illegal aliens are stripping Connecticut beaches clean of crabs and clams, but woke officials are ignoring it. A lot of Hispanics come to Matoaka to fish on weekends. They're not too fussy about the game laws either. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "BOMBSHELL: Los Angeles County is STEALING funds from a wildfire relief fund to give up to $15K CHECKS to noncitizens or residents "impacted by ICE raids" All "without checking the recipient's immigration status" $5 MILLION has already been redirected. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! 600 days, most LA residents still can't even return to their homes after they were lost to the wildfires But now money might be handed out to noncitizens? California is AMERICANS LAST!"

Ilya Shapiro @ishapiro, "Wait, the editor-in-chief is actually doing her job?" Quote Dominic Michael Tripi @DMichaelTripi, "NEW: Head of CBS News Bari Weiss reportedly personally intervened to tweak headlines about candidates in midterms who oppose Israel." nero @n3ro, "Editor in Chief performs journalism . .. leftists outraged". Matt Margolis at PJM enjoys a little schadenfreude as Wolf Blitzer’s Trump Mail-In Voting Lie Blows Up in His Face With Humiliating Correction. Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "As I predicted, @washingtonpost has finally edited its despicable and inaccurate report on me @CynicalPublius & @RobManess to correct the embarrassing misspellings of my name by @DanLamothe. Now, they should correct the false implication that we were paid to spread propaganda for the Pentagon and apologize to us."

Matt Calkins asks Did Colin Kaepernick do more harm than good for the Black community? "He first knelt 10 years ago today. But was his reason for doing so based in fact?" Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "We are quite literally teaching people to be America-hating criminals." Quote Rob Henderson @robkhenderson, "Relative to Americans with a high school education, Americans with graduate degrees are twice as likely to support political violence. More education = higher support for political violence. It couldn't be otherwise." Well, I think there might som bias caused by different views of those who chose to go on in education. Brad Todd @BradOnMessage, "There's a lot of truth in here, as you'd expect from @asymmetricinfo, but there is one more layer: for 30 years, we have allowed only ONE real lender for college tuition, with zero under-writing & ample political pressure to waive even principal payments. Monopoly lending helped create this beast's appetite. If we had instead under-written every college loan based on the potential for the borrower to pay it back, we would not have a lot of useless masters programs & climbing walls & zen rooms in rec centers of middling colleges that have compass directions or denominational labels in their names." Quote Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo, "I think the correct formulation is that colleges are in trouble because the wage premium stagnated, but during the lag before people figured that out, colleges increased tuition to the point where expected value declined for marginal students."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Maybe I'll Meet You at the Jubilee

At Space.com, Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,000 US rocket launches per year. From the White House, a Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches the Golden Age of Space Transportation.

From News Wax, Trump Administration Warns Canada Faces 'Devastating' Impact on Tariffs. Sundance at CTH is all over it, with Council on Foreign Relations President Says Trump Gave Mark Carney an Ultimatum, USA or China? Carney Chose China, Former Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Says Canada Must Focus on Psychological Operations Against Americans Now and Trade Talks – President Trump and USTR Greer Respond to Canada’s Claims.

News Wax again reports Iran's President Says US Memorandum Is Best Path out of Stalled War. Maybe, but they'd actually have to abide by the terms. Sarah Hoyt at Insty, HEY’VE GULLED AMERICANS WITH THAT SCAM FOR 47 YEARS: Slain Ayatollah Khamenei wanted to end conflict with US through peace talks, Iranian president claims. CBD at Ace's The NeoCon Wet-Dream For Iran Is "Boots On The Ground." Hell No! There Is A Better Way!

Sundance reports Zelenskyy Rejects Election Demand Fearful of “Major Risks.” He might lose.

Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC, "Who owns Stars & Stripes? Hint: It's run by a guy named @PeteHegseth Key elements of the current charter (DoWI 5122.11) "prioritizing content not readily available via commercial media." i.e. don't be the MSM "It does not take its own editorial positions." i.e. just the news not the liberal viewpoint. You lot failed those miserably and were properly let go when you refused to change your ways. You will not be missed." Quote Lara Korte @lara_korte, "Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker." Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson, "The problem is, George, that nobody in uniform trusts them. We’ve learned the hard way. And, you’ve never read that rag either. You never served. Crawl back into your hole, creep." Quote George Conway @gtconway3d, "Outrageous and sad. Decades have been devoted to building up the credibility of this publication to earn the trust of everyone in uniform—credibility and trust now being summarily destroyed by narcissistic and. ignorant hacks like Hegseth."

At NYPo, Trump’s bill prompts steep SNAP enrollment decline — including over 50% in one state. At Althouse, "Ancient societies had another method to deal with debt. It was called an amargi — a blanket declaration of public debt cancellation." ""All public debts written off. Disappeared. It sounds laughable, I know. But, really, that’s just because the idea has been buried so deeply in history you’ve probably never heard of it. In the ancient world, it presented a pragmatic solution to an intractable problem. And now, faced with impossible-to-repay debts that are weighing down our economy, is the time to look at the amargi and the lessons it offers about how to think about finance...." From "$40 Trillion Debt? The Ancient Sumerians Wouldn’t Have Cared" (NYT gift link)." The ancient Israelites had the Jubilee, on the 50th year,  The fields were left unplanted and unharvested, allowing the land to rest completely.  Ancestral lands that families had to sell due to hard times were returned to their original owners, stopping permanent generational poverty. Israelites who had sold themselves into servitude to pay off debts were freed and allowed to return to their families. Forgiveness of Debts: Financial obligations were lifted to restore economic equality within the community." I understand it was mostly honored in the breach.  Shake it shake it Sugaree, I'll meet you at the Jubilee, and if that Jubilee don't come, maybe I'll meet you on the run. In a few years, that may become the only choice.

The Data Republican at Substack, The Trap Needs No Trapper "Charlie Kirk is gone. The work of keeping a coalition from devouring itself is now ours, myself included."

Jonathan Turley is shocked by Democrat's Assassination Sing-a-Long: Hasan Piker Mocks the Murdered Charlie Kirk to Cheering Crowd. From I&I, ‘Democratic Party’ and ‘DSA’ Are Now Officially Synonymous. John Lucas at Bravo Blue looks at The Establishment Mouthpiece Undermining American Culture, "And what you can do to fight it." Driscoll at Insty harks back to MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING DURING THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Krzysztof Szczawinski @Kristof_Poland, "The conventional explanation for Rome’s demographic collapse is wealth. People got comfortable. They stopped having children. It happens to every prosperous civilization. Nothing to be done. This is wrong. Or rather, it is incomplete in the way that matters most. Rome didn’t stop having children because it got wealthy. It stopped having children because it built a welfare state – and the welfare state did what welfare states always do: it replaced the incentives that make people build families with incentives that make people consume instead. The grain dole began modestly. Around 40,000 recipients in 73 BC. By Caesar’s time: 320,000. That eightfold expansion in under three decades was not a plan – it was a political mechanism. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it...." Larry Elder at Hat Hair wonders Did Hakeem Jeffries Discover the Price of 'Free' Healthcare? I doubt it, the only math Democrats do is count votes. 

Roger Kimball at Am Great, Jamie Raskin’s Trump Obsession Trumps Antisemitism, "They want to acknowledge the sudden rise in antisemitism but they can’t bear to acknowledge that Donald Trump was doing something about it." ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena, "@AndyBeshearKY picked an odd fight to take up with Vance. First for a man of privilege to question the geographic credentials of a man who grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and Kentucky, with the former right on the edge of the government’s definition of Appalachia and the latter well within it, is curious at best. “Then there is the large populations of people who identify with Appalachia because their families live just a smidge outside the region due to migration for jobs. J.D. Vance is one of those,” @TomMaraffa. For Beshear to try to strip away Vance’s identity for political kudos makes little sense. To have someone mention Appalachia as a point of pride should be something to celebrate, not admonish. Especially if you grew up with your father having a seat at a state government’s table of power." Quote Beshear Operative @Beshearop, "Andy Beshear throws shade at JD Vance via the WSJ: “He’s not from Appalachia. He is from the suburbs of Cincinnati.”"

Joe Chalfant at TownHall explains Yes, You're Reading It Right: Dan Sullivan Endorses Dan Sullivan Over Dan Sullivan in AK Senate Race. Data Republican looks at The Seven Years of History behind Seditious Six. "What the legacy Pentagon press corps refused to cover."

At PJM, Matt Margolis hears Hillary Reportedly Planning Bill Clinton's Funeral, and Has Questions.

Driscoll at Insty says EMBRACE THE HEALING QUALITY OF “AND ALL OF THE ABOVE:” Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "This morning a question popped into my head for the first time: WHY did Comey do the 86 47 seashell picture? What WAS his REAL motivation? Because he (and his wife) spent a lot of effort to do it, so there had to be a reason. 1/" Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "2/ What are the possible motivations? To get accolades from the Left? To publicly display his hatred of Trump? To get Trump killed? Thing is, even if not the latter, the ONLY way the first to motives are achieved is if you give 86 natural meaning of "to off."" At the Lyceum, Real Russiagate Has Never Been Tried. "According to Schmidt, there is nothing wrong with the Russia collusion narrative at all—it just hasn’t been proven yet." Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "It was always highly conspicuous that the entire anti-Trump hoax industry began with something as unconventional as claiming he was a Russian agent. It was almost as if Democrats had concluded that the tried and tested sex scandal route was useless against Trump. To be fair, they did throw Stormy Daniels into the mix, but that had more to do with squeezing Michael Cohen than anything else. Then came Ukraine, which was essentially an extension of the Russia operation. Then came the classified documents saga, which grew directly out of the same Russia Russia universe. They eventually tried the bizarre New York civil case with the freakish woman, but even that failed to move the needle. So after more than a decade of Russia, Ukraine, impeachments, prosecutions, classified documents, civil cases, and just about every conceivable line of attack, watching them circle all the way back to an affair scandal feels almost comically desperate." Quote Aaron Rupar @atrupar, "photos of Natalie Harp in Trump's limo with Trump as they leave the golf course yesterday and then her entering the White House upon their return."

At PJM Mark Tapscott, When Reality Bites: Dem Sen. Chris Murphy's '52 ICE Deaths' Isn't Even a Half-Truth. "IN FACT, the age-comparable fatality rate of the general U.S. population is several times higher than people in ICE detention, and deaths related to lax immigration enforcement are at least 90 times greater than deaths in ICE custody," JFD reports. And here are some of the key specifics:..."

Political Neutrality Of PBS Questioned After New Footage Of Elmo Keying Cybertruck https://t.co/gESSNYaylX

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 23, 2026

At Althouse, "The fact that [Jason Arday] was promoted as some kind of prodigy given how crazy his self-representation was is a sign of just how cultic and confused the left and left-leaning institutions have become." ""I mean, it's just it's just a sign of the the cancer having spread everywhere.... I mean, it's just, this is all, anti-racism.... This is putting the black — the BLM black — square not only in your bio but in your brain. Um, it's a cult...Said Sam Harris." Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil, "Woke never ended. The New England Journal of Medicine just published an insane thinkpiece that starts with a neurotic hallucination and then alleges Jason Arday did no wrong and that he was killed. It's no surprise people don't trust our institutions anymore."  From NRO, New England Journal of Medicine Opinion Editor Takes Credit for Ruining Its Reputation. From RCE, The $140 Billion Public-College Myth.

From Campus Reform, Penn professor writes book arguing 'sex isn't real,' but previously taught course on ‘studying sex’ "A University of Pennsylvania professor recently published a book focused on claimed 'high stakes attempts' to curtail 'trans life.'" Well, as my daddy used to say, "foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." TownHall's Matt Vespa sees  The WNBA Continues to Be a Trainwreck. Did You See These Two New Mascots? "Dear Lord, if you all would just stop being stupid for two seconds, this could’ve been a record year for the league. Instead, we have a commissioner who’s lost control and is damn-near worthless, Caitlin Clark, the face of the league, getting curb-stomped every game, Sophie Cunningham being attacked for supporting girls’ sports, and people wondering why the sex toys are being thrown on the courts again. You ladies are not serious right now."

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: More Coffee, Please and FMJRA 2.0: Embracing The Suck up on time and under budget at The Other McCain (if you count Megan).

Flotsam and Jetsam - Jason Arday Dead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "I never expected to be as enthused as I am now about this whole trans thing.
Quote Brock Pierson @brockpierson, "OFFICIAL PRACTICE REPORT The newly self declared WNBA roster of Enes Kanter Freedom, Royce White, Brock “Briana” Pierson, and Will “Willamina” Van Booraem completed our first closed door practice session this morning." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Well put. Bad news, they’ll never acknowledge it." Quote The Heretical Liberal @Rob_ThaBuilder, "Its quite interesting how the Far Left is all of a sudden very concerned about the possible ulterior motives of men who claim to be women, as if they've only realized now that men might lie in order to prey on vulnerable women. The trans activists are showing FAR more interest." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Kentucky Derby Convenes Committee To Determine What Is A Horse."

And more! At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 08.14.26 (Evening Edition). Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup and links.