Flotsam and Jetsam - I'll Take Some Natural Intelligence Please

It's been building recently, but yesterday a wave of articles concerning Artificial Intelligence flooded the news, and it's becoming a partisan issue, with Democrats, in general, and in league with Big Tech, calling for more government control, and President Trump, and many Republicans seek to quell the anti-AI movement to preserve America's lead over the Chinese in the field. The Chinese, for their part, are doing all they can to support a growing anti-AI (and anti-data center) movement in the US. It's all too easy to foment fear of the unknown newfangled modern stuff.

From Roger Kimball at Am Great, The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd, "AI is not a departure from mankind’s toiling in the garden of natural knowledge but an extension of that knowledge." David Marcus @BlueBoxDave, "Oh, is it another existential crisis like Covid and climate change that means we have to surrender our freedom to the smart people? Right on time." Quote David Axelrod @davidaxelrod, "Everyone from AI whistleblowers to the titans of the AI platforms warn about the catastrophic risk to humanity of supeintelligent models that are rapidly evolving. The @POTUS, with deep political and business ties to the industry, dismisses it as a "hoax."" Leslie Eastman at LI, Trump Completely Rejects AI “Experts” Push to ‘Pace the Frontier’ “We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.” Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi, " 1/MAJOR ESCALATION: Barack Obama just told Hakeem Jeffries to make AI regulation the center of the Democratic agenda — “once you are speaker.” The NYT story reads like a former president weighing in. Read it closely and it’s something else: the next domino in an eighteen-day sequence. Here’s the sequence..." From WUWT, UN Tries to Insert itself into Calls for AI Regulation. C3 @C_3C_3, "I’m no expert on AI but… I’m an expert on recognizing an op when I see one. If you lived through Russiagate, Covid & 2020 you can see it. You can feel it. You know it. You’re immune to DC’s ops. And we’re watching an op. BO, Hillary, Uniparty & Media are the tell. Facts." Jordan Schachtel @JordanSchachtel, "Two of the reporters on the byline are funded by the Tarbell Center, an AI doomer org controlled by Kamala Harris megadonor Dustin Moskovitz. Tarbell gives journalists large grants to insert AI doomer stories into prominent outlets. @TIME did not disclose the affiliation." Rooke Poole @rookepoole, "I followed the money behind the “slow down AI” movement. What I found is not a secret conspiracy. It is more interesting than that. It is a documented influence network connecting billionaire funders, nonprofits, creators, media, activists, frontier labs, and lawmakers." Clandestine @WarClandestine, "All the bitching and moaning about AI ending humanity and data centers ruining the world, is propaganda astroturfed by our foreign adversaries. They aim to influence and spook US citizens and lawmakers, to prevent the US from dominating the AI race. All of it is bullshit. The Left used the same exact tactic in an attempt to prevent the US from becoming energy independent. That’s why they are so against fracking, and why they were obsessed with global warming and the green new deal nonsense..." At Althouse, "Time Has Run Out for AI Risk Deniers/The recent spate of reports about the technology’s destructive power underline two prime directives: Be afraid, and regulate aggressively." "It's time to panic and legislate like hell, according to the headline at The Nation. How can that heavy-handed fear mongering not make a reader skeptical? I would think The Nation would at least want to be cagier about what it thinks of its own readers."

Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "Turns out the "third party" Anthropic wants to use to gatekeep AI is *funded* by Anthropic." Quote Kevin Bass @kevinnbass, "I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances. What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation. Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture. It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off..." Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne, "Weird how this resignation coincided with - a bunch of UK parliamentary action, including a letter signed by 70 MPs; - UK hearings scheduled, on this very topic; - the release of a Netflix documentary; and the blog post launch by his former boss calling for exactly this and the control of FOSS models; - 2 months after a leading industry consortium recommended censoring/restricting open weight models, something now being called for across the political spectrum." Quote ABC News @ABC, "Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI and Anthropic employee who quit his job at Anthropic this week, posted a dire warning on X that set off a wave of concern over the growth of AI. “It's pretty important to keep your eyes open about the direction things are..."

Don Surber says Support AI or learn Mandarin, "Developing artificial intelligence is the 21st century’s moon race. This time, the stakes are survival itself." Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "So, the Chinese have officially stated that they consider the calls for an AI pause to be a "power play" and will not be participating in any US-led agreements to slow down development. Following AI-doomer logic, it is now absolutely imperative that we bomb the hell out of Chinese data centers before they achieve hard take-off. Which we are assured could happen *any day now*. Safetyists, this is your chance to demonstrate that you really believe what you claim to. Advocate immediate preemptive war against Chinese data centers, or SHUT UP." From NYPo, China’s spymaster warns that AI is a threat to Communist Party rule." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "OK, that did it. Total AI anarchy, please. Whatever that ChiCom symp doesn’t want. Make it a rule. Carney want that? Nope." Quote Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Canada enters the global AI regulation debate, as PM Mark Carney calls for a global “technology stability” body to oversee AI development."

Leslie Eastman at LI, OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied, "Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week."

From News Wax, Vance: Iran War to Enter New Phase in Months. "And then the second phase of this is ensure that they're not able to rebuild and try to maintain as much global stability in the wake of that." At Hat Hair, John Sexton worries How Long Will It Take to Repair That Saudi Oil Pipeline? VodkaPundit at PJM imagines Reagan Smiles: Space Force Confirms We Have Weapons in Space. From Reason, Thomas Massie Just Filed 8 Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth "The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Hegseth, who is accused of "abusing the power of his office to ignore congressional war powers resolutions, to kidnap foreign leaders, and to intimidate critics of the Trump administration."" Note that Massie lost his primary after Trump supported his opponent.

From Twitchy, Scott Bessent Can't Help but LAUGH As Maxine Waters Froths and LOSES It 'Reclaiming Her Time' -WATCH. At Breitbart Bus, Hey, Chairman Warsh: What’s the Rush?

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— Cody Sargent (@codydsargent) September 14, 2026

Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer, "It’s a pretty nuanced position. I don’t know why we keep misrepresenting it." Quote fauxstonox @fauxstonox, ""The absolute worst country on the face of the planet, straight up, bar none. A capitalist shithole. Kaya, now is not the opportunity. Down... I despise this nation. I despise this country with my entire fucking heart" -- Hasan Piker on the United States of America." Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello, "Keep him blocked. We should probably block him and his administration from having access to the NYPD’s terrorism database too." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Mamdani still without federal security clearance after 9 months as NYC mayor." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "I for one welcome the insight into the deficiencies of western civilization that third world savages provide." Quote Drew Pavlou @DrewPavlou, "I’m fucking crying bro her dad was a Sudanese warlord who abducted hundreds of child soldiers. Dozens of them died of starvation according to this report by Human Rights Watch She was posting pics of her Dad on Instagram this week." Ace cites Comer to DHS: Release the Evidence of Ilhan Omar's Immigration Fraud So That We Can Decide Whether to Expel Her from Congress. "That could be good. But I don't think it will happen, not yet anyway." Guy Benson @guypbenson, "You don’t have to keep smearing him, Ilhan — one of your fellow leftists already murdered him (“some person did something,” in your parlance)." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Ilhan Omar on Charlie’s ass*ssination: “There is no legacy to honor. It was filled with bigotry, hatred, and white supremacy."" At the Free Bacon, ‘I Don't Wanna Pay It Back’: Socialist Senate Nominee Angie Nixon Says It's ‘Crazy’ She Has To Pay Her Taxes And Student Loans. "Nixon laments the injustice of having to pay her own fair share as she campaigns on raising taxes on the wealthy." PJM's Matt Margolis thinks James Talarico Shouldn’t Be Allowed Near Children, let alone the US Senate. 

From NYPo, Ex-Dem insider exposes what Harris told top donors days before Biden dropped out: ‘All charade’. PJM's Dave Manney hears A Federal Grand Jury Wants Six Years of Gavin Newsom’s Receipts. Reason calls The 'Stop Nick Shirley Act': Yet Another Anti-Doxxing Law That Chills Free Speech. Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOAH. An addiction recovery center in Minnesota accused of stealing millions with fake Medicaid billing has just been exposed to have another account with $25 MILLION They’ve used our stolen tax money to buy: - 3 Minnesota homes - $10.4 million in charges - $3.5 million on leather goods and luggage - $380k jewelry and watches - $150k clothing and shoes - One month of LV charges alone was $440,000 June 2024 spending alone included - $35k at Fendi - $57k at LV - $13k at Hermès - $64k private jet - $41k Airbnb And now a $25 million CD has been discovered..." Aaron Hanscom at PJM thinks You Don’t Realize How Far L.A. Has Fallen Until You Come Back, which is increasing unlikely now that my younger brother Mark moved out. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair as one for the Annals of Progressive Insanity: New CO Petition Proposal Is for the Birds. A "wildlife photography tax."

Stacy McCain has hopes LARRY KRASNER IS COOKED! Philly D.A. Could Face Federal Charges. From Ace, Philadelphia Soros DA Larry Krasner May Have Committed Perjury to the Court to Get a Convicted, Guilty Murderer Off, "Larry Krasner and his "prosecutors" have been questioned and accused by judges of deliberately misstating evidence to contrive reasons to free guilty murders from jail. Two of his "prosecutors" have been disbarred over their flagrant crimes before the court-- all to support meritless appeals so that guilty murders could go free. Krasner is a full supporter of the left's "decarceration" agenda and believes no one should be in prison -- not rapists, not killers, not child sex abusers -- and he's not shy about saying so and he's not shy about putting his communist believes into practice..."

Also Ace, Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Procede with Post Office Scanning of Mail-In Ballots, Claiming (Say It With Me) It's Now Too Late to Implement This Rule and It Would "Cause Chaos" "They did exactly what I said they'd do -- Democrats launched lawsuits to delay things and then the courts slow-played it so they could just say, "Whoops, there wouldn't be enough time to implement these changes now that we've dicked around for weeks and weeks, you lose." This is intolerable." And yet, LI's Mike LaChance reports Pete Buttigieg Says Dems Must Pack SCOTUS Because It’s Too ‘Partisan’ “And I want to be clear. The idea is not to just add justices for its own sake. The idea is to reform the institution, to make it less partisan.” Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Our crazy orange president needs to announce a plan to pack the court, just like Dems keep advocating. He’ll have Dems shouting that court packing is fascism, which will make for useful video clips down the road. Just post it on Truth Social. Sit back and watch heads explode, with backflips." Quote Mike Engleman @RealHickory. "People need to stop saying we have a conservative 6-3 Supreme Court! It's NOT conservative by any means! It voted to implement Obamacare, birthright citizenship, and against any form of election security/integrity, outside of Thomas and Alito!" Hey, that was my idea!

Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCP, "Worse threat to the planet than AI." Quote Defiant L’s @DefiantLs, "“Lindsay Clancy... you are a fucking hero, you are divine feminine rising… you are goddess incarnate woman... You are an inspiration... fuck patriarchy" Nothing says "fuck the patriarchy" quite like murdering your children I guess..." From Ace, "Rogue" Juror's Family: We're Being Subjected to Constant Harassment and Menace by "Crazy" People. "Before that: One of the Lindsay Clancy cultists killed her baby while singing a song from the Wizard of Oz." Joel Pollak @joelpollak, "The holdout juror in the Clancy case is a "devoutly Catholic Haitian immigrant." His brother says faith had nothing to do with refusing to acquit a woman who killed her 3 kids. He and his family live in fear of retribution by the self-righteously tolerant." From nypost.com Wanye Kest @skeeminarmenian, "Libs support ICE deportations in 3…2…1…" Jonathan Turley has a A Response to Kevin Reddington: The Secret to “Sleeping Well” for the defense attorney.

From News Wax, Ex-Secret Service Agent to Newsmax: Butler Shooting 'a Big Mystery'. PJM's Cathy Salgado reports an Anonymous Donor Paid for Cremation of Would-Be Trump Assassin. It could be perfectly innocent...

Bob Hoge at RedState, sees a Routine Oversight Hearing Turns Into Patel vs. Welch Cage Match: 'You Done With Your Campaign Ad?' Matt Vespa at TownHall says New Email From Disgraced FBI Agent Truly Shows the Rot of the Anti-Trump Deep State.

Dave Manney hears Wisconsin Is Suing Trump for Asking Immigrants to Support Themselves. From Campus Reform, Trump DOJ completes nationwide crackdown on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. At Da Caller, Continued Anti-White Farmer Violence In South Africa Triggers New Trump Admin Visa Restrictions.

Nick Arama at RedState says Boom: Brandon Gill's Perfect Response to Reporter Who Doesn't Want to Reveal Her Employer. Greg Price @greg_price11, "Future Oversight Committee Chairman Brandon Gill absolutely cooks an Al Jazeera reporter: "You guys can get lost.""

Wesley Yang @wesyang, "Rampant grade inflation means that grades don't tell us anything about a person's competency. The UC system doesn't accept standardized tests, which do tell us about a person's competency. The UC system is now flooded with people that require remedial education." Quote Marc Porter Magee @marcportermagee, "The UC system is being flooded with students with 4.0 GPAs. It is now over 100,000 a year (left). Yet California 11th graders proficiency levels haven't budged (right)." Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell, "“The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit — replacing what works with what sounds good.” — Thomas Sowell"

From Fox, Smithsonian’s dark take on America exposed: Washington dubbed ‘town destroyer,’ Revolutionary War ‘dangerous'. "Fox News Digital visited the Manhattan museum and found exhibits highly critical of George Washington and early America."

Victory Girls are scandalized about a Charlie Kirk Statue Vandalized Outside TPUSA Headquarters. Just think about the people who did it, and consider it an honor.

Bob Spencer at PJM hears an Islamic Scholar Says Grooming Gangs ‘Have Nothing to Do With Islam.’ (Except They Do.) The Spectator @spectator, "'Is Elon Musk clear that a lot of grooming cases he talks about happened ten years ago?' Rory Stewart explains why he believes there are more important issues facing Britain than gangs of 'predominantly Pakistani Muslim men' grooming women and girls. Watch in full | http://youtube.com/watch?v=qmf26sXuGyk" Human Events@HumanEvents, "UK police caught harassing "gender-fluid Muslim woman" in burqa at anti-immigration protest." "The 76-year-old in a burqa was arrested under the Crime and Policing Act, a recently passed British bill that bans face coverings in protests but conveniently carves out an exception for religious apparel like the burqas and niqabs worn by Muslim women who subscribe to religious modesty dress codes." Michael Shellenberger at Public, Many Democrats Today Agree With Republicans That Trans Is “Crazy.” Imagine Their Shock When They Learn It’s Also A Sexual Fetish. "As the GOP brands its opponents as mentally ill, it’s hard to remember that transgenderism was once politically advantageous." From the College Fix, UW-Madison hosts drag show for welcome week festivities.

You can't imagine how happy in makes me that Sydney Sweeney is back in the news. Jim Treacher says Sydney Sweeney Is Jiggling All the Way to the Bank. Damn right, and she earns every penny nickel. Ace, Feminists and Media Scolds Continue Melting Down Over Sydney Sweeney. Driscoll at Insty, TO BOLDLY GO WHERE ESPN HAS GONE BEFORE: "Sydney Sweeney’s naked betting advert ‘sexualizes’ women’s sport. Sydney Sweeney has been accused of sexualising women in sport after appearing naked in a betting advert. The Hollywood actress posed for Novig, a sports-prediction market company, in a video that has had almost one million views in four days. The advert shows Sweeney sitting topless on a basketball hoop, saying: “So they wanted to show just sports.” After saying “sports” nine times while playing tennis, golf, and baseball in various states of undress, she adds: “You can’t trade this, I just look good here. No betting on wars or deaths, and no politics. Just you and your take on sports.” It closes with her walking away naked. The 29-year-old Euphoria star has been criticised by female athletes, who have accused her of setting back women in sport. Sweeney has set back sports all the way back to 2009, when ESPN magazine’s “The Body Issue” began running images such as these..."

George MF Washington @GMFWashington, "Just to be clear, this is Variety explicitly piling on a popular young actress in an environment where there are not enough movie stars and where studios are openly complaining about not being able to attract men. Variety is no longer a friend to Hollywood." Quote Variety @Variety, "Sydney Sweeney has lost over 200,000 Instagram followers following backlash over her nude sports-betting advertisement. The ad triggered a negative reaction from those who object to its sexualization of women in sports. Several women Olympic athletes have weighed in on the..." Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock@kimmie_c_ "Imagine thinking Sweeney & her glorious tits set women back when it's actually a bunch of pink hat "feminists" defending a mother who blames her hormones for filicide." Quote fuck it we bawl @fuckitwebawl_, "for every act of micro feminism i do sydney sweeney sets feminism 100 years back."

And still more at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.15.26 (Afternoon Edition) and In The Mailbox: 11.15.26 (Evening Edition). The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: Coffee & Sweater and 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 - Like A Summer Thursday

I'm really struggling with a decent title for this one.  

Rick Moran at PJM says Reports of Trump's Waning Influence Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, after he got Lindsey Graham's sister over the goal in Georgia. From News Wax, Trump Admin Floats Razing Kennedy Center, since he's not being allowed to fix it. Trump Mulls Renaming Lake Ontario as 'Lake America.' Canadians Balk at the Idea, which is exactly the point.

Hat Hair's Beege Welborn sees PA Measles Outbreak Sparking Predictable Virulent Outbreak of TDS MORE. Two elderlies died of measles. Probably Mennonites, maybe Hispanic Immigrants, who went through the Biden era unvaccinated too, but it's RFK Jr.'s fault, of course. Polimath at Marginally compelling notes Canada Is Losing The War On Measles, "Canada losing their elimination status for measles is a nerve-wracking reminder of the fragility of modern civilization." Mennonites. "If we charted Canada’s measles rate against the US, the US would look like a flat line." I had the measles back in the 50s. Back then it was just assumed that you would get them as a child.

Matt Vespa at TownHall sees James O'Keefe Just Put Lisa Murkowski's Anti-SAVE America Act Stance Through the Shredder. So she wants to put him in jail.

News Wax reports  Trump claims the US Navy Cleared All Mines From Hormuz, in a effort to supply Europe and China with oil. C14 News | EN @c14english, "Mojtaba Khamenei Clinically Dead Internal Iranian sources tell The Atlantic that Mojtaba Khamenei, designated successor to his father, is either dead or in a vegetative state - raising questions about who's actually running Iran." We need to let the Israelies peel off a few more layers to find out. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson is Watching the Iranian Regime Literally and Figuratively Run Out of Gas. VodkaPundit at PJM, Yeah, About That 'Famine' in Gaza…, it's a work of fiction. From Ace, Marco Rubio Sanctions Italy-Based Tech "Collective" Making Tools for Hamas; Also Reveals Portland Antifa Shops There Too, "Dude's balls are so big he could play for the WNBA." Ward Clark at RedState says The Trump Admin Just Found a Pressure Point That Could Disrupt Antifa's Entire Network.

Hat Hair's John Sexton observes Russia's 4th Largest Refinery Is Burning (it's probably not an accident), and wonders Why Are the Germans Being Such Wimps About the Drone Attack in Leipzig?

At Mil.com, Navy Notice Officially Warns Personnel, Families to Scrub Social Media of Military Ties, "Hung Cao's notice puts 340,000 active-duty, 58,000 reserve, and 210,000 civilian Navy workers on alert after recent service controversies."

At his occasional NYPo gig, Insty warns Tech bros must channel the moguls of old to get back in America’s good graces. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "New Data Center Built To Handle Influx Of Online Rants Against Data Centers.

Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "This is awesome." Quote The Royal Family @RoyalFamily, "Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always love you." OTH, Greta Van Susteren @greta, "This is the WORST INTERVIEW EVER! I don’t know where Barbara Walters was working in 1977 - NBC or ABC - but no network should have broadcast this trash interview." Nick Arama at RedState finds El-Sayed's Post on Dolly Parton's Death Has People Up in Arms. He tried to make her a poster child for socialism. At the JPo, Antisemitic vandals target Dolly Parton's Wikipedia page just hours after her death.

At Da Signal, Deroy Murdock hears from the DSA: ‘Our Goal Is Communism,’ and the Great Victor Davis Hanson writes The Radical Left Wants to Destroy America and Rebuild It. Charlton Allen at Am Think notices When Lenin Lost An Election, He Abolished Democracy, "When revolutionary socialists tell us who they are, perhaps we should take them at their word." Dave Strom at Hat Hair observes Mehdi Hasan Proves That Reparations Are a Stupid Idea. Where do they stop? Ace, Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed Hoovers Up Donations from Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas-Supporting Donors to Nazi Troll Dan Blizerian (While Claiming Jewish Safety Will be a Priority for Him). "Weird that his donors don't believe him. What do they know that we don't? Abdulrahman Hussein El-Sayed collects donations from a terrorist member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a man so extreme Egypt sentenced him to life in prison:" Mike LaChance at LI hears Hillary Clinton Suggest Rise of Socialism in the Democratic Party is ‘Healthy’ “The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment.” From WaT, Democrat Debbie Dingell: Don’t ask me about Hasan Piker. John Sexton hears Nervous Dems: If We Keep Talking About Hasan Piker, We'll Lose. From The Scuttlebutt, Target Rich Environment volume five. And another thing ... “Woke One” Was Crazyyyy Violent and Evil, "Don’t let people with aspirations for higher office fool you into thinking otherwise."

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "People wonder why Democrats take unpopular positions on things like voter ID and the deportation of foreigners. To put it simply: Popularity is not nearly as important for their survival as cheating is. Without the cheating, the Democrat Party is a 20% party." Quote Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes, "WOAH, Michigan Democrats are putting dead voters BACK ON the voter rolls after they are removed After the dead people are added back, THEY ARE MAILED BALLOTS." Mia Cathell at WaEx reports the Judge in Feeding Our Future case found Ilhan Omar’s relaxed provisions made food program ‘vulnerable to fraud’. Doug Powers @ThePowersThatBe, "Warren said 9 million people are in default on their student loans and Dances With Identity Theft wants everybody to believe that Trump officials are the problem with the system?" From Da Wire, Josh Shapiro Eyes New Powers That Make COVID Restrictions Look Like A Warning Shot. "We’ve already seen how this kind of authority can be abused, and we cannot allow the mistakes of the past to be repeated." New York Post @nypost, "California city goes rogue, plots 1,200 new homes at high-speed rail site." Why not? The rail will never get built, even though the money will be spent. 

Also at NYPo a reminder, True horrors of Biden’s Afghan pullout emerge on 5th anniversary of suicide bomb: ‘Witness to atrocities, war crimes.’

From the Peacock, Military trial date set for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks, "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006." It would be a shame if something happened to him first. At Twitchy, Toronto Sun Columnist: New Memo Tells CBC Journalists Not to Refer to 9/11 As a Terrorist Attack. From Campus Reform, DOJ charges 17 Iranians in alleged IRGC university hacking campaign "DOJ: Iranian hackers targeted hundreds of universities in cyber theft campaign. Eight additional defendants were charged in an alleged years-long campaign that targeted universities worldwide."

Two from Shipwreckedcrew, 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," and SCOTUS Kicks The Can Down The Road On Changing Postal Regulations For Mail-In Ballots, "As a purely legal matter, the Court’s decision is correct. While GOP voters may be critical, this process needs to check all the boxes in order for it to stick in 2028 when it will matter the most." Fusilli Spock @awstar11 "Why haven't the House GOP even tried to impeach her?" Quote Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman, "SCOTUS just cleared the path for Trump’s mail ballot security rules. Less than 24 hours later, Obama-appointed Judge Indira Talwani is back at it. She just ruled that the U.S. Postal Service “feigned complete compliance”  and violated her injunction by finalizing the new rules. Same judge. Same playbook. Different day. The Supreme Court speaks. A district judge digs in harder. This is exactly why Americans have lost trust in the system. Secure elections shouldn’t be this hard. Time to start naming names and holding these activist judges." accountable. Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress @ooana, "I always understood why the Second Amendment was constitutionally protected. What I never really understood was why people called it a natural right. Then I moved from New York to Florida..."

Paul Sperry at RCI looks at American Medinas: Turning US Cities Into ‘Beachheads’ for Islam.

From Althouse, "Meta on Wednesday reached a landmark settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties..." "I'm reading "Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims/The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children" (NYT gift link)."

At Twitchy, Taylor Lorenz: Queen of Cancel Culture & Leopards Eating Faces Party Founder Discovers Free Thought.

Herr Professor Jacobson at LI, hears El-Sayed’s Sister Say The Quiet Part Out Loud About Activist Profs Politically Proselytizing Students, “We have to realize that there are people who do not view teaching as their calling. They are not in academia to teach. They’re in academia to politicize.” Like it's a good thing. At Complete Colorado, State spins shockingly bad Colorado education testing data. "Any of the following would be perfectly accurate and appropriate headlines for testing data released August 19 from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success: “Most students grades 3–8 behind in all subjects according to state testing.” “State testing shows overall low student scores increase in just over half of categories by grade and subject.” “Nearly two-thirds of Colorado students struggle in math despite small testing gains.” “Large majority of Black and Hispanic students continue to struggle in language and math.” Here is an actual headline from the Denver Post that’s reasonable: “2026 CMAS results show Colorado students making gains in math, falling behind in reading.”"

Greg Lukianoff and Andrea Honeycutt at the Eternally Radical Idea, The mental health consequences of social justice fundamentalism, "Data shows that the farther left you lean, the more anxious, depressed, and unhappy you are." I see a problem separating cause and effect here. Helen Smith @HelenSmithPhD, "This looks about right. Since women are now the majority of psychologists, the field has totally changed, and not for the better."  Quote Gad Saad @GadSaad, "Epistemology of truth vs epistemology of care. Read this book:"

At Althouse, "Women in rural Devon are being coached on how to give birth in the back of a car after their local hospital shut its maternity service." There's your socialized medicine.

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, YGBKM: WNBA Team Bans Freedom As 'Threat'. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Supreme Court Lets Trump Regulate Mail-in Voting

Matt Margolis at PJM hears SCOTUS Gives Trump HUGE Win on Mail-In Voting. "Trump signed the executive order, called "Ensuring Citizenship Verification And Integrity In Federal Elections, in March 2026. It directs his administration to build lists of eligible voters and orders the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail ballots only to people on those lists. The Postal Service laid out its implementation plan last week, but the clock is ticking. Some states start sending mail ballots in just a few weeks, leaving the administration little time to get this right before the midterms. More court challenges remain possible." Again, like the ballroom, it's one of those "we haven't really decided yet, but you can proceed for now" decisions. At Althouse, "Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now." "The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates 'state citizenship lists' and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot". Mark Mendlovitz @MendlovitzMark, "The Supreme Court ruling that lets the Trump Administration proceed with mail ballot security measures has Democrats freaking out, but what's really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about that) and much more about MATCHING BARCODES of the outer and inner envelopes in a mail ballot package. Here is why that's the problem for them. If surplus mail ballots collected from people who aren't voting by mail are somehow voted on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE, it becomes readily detectable that a ballot was repurposed from its originally intended voter to someone else on the voter rolls. The "no-match" condition means that ballot was taken from the originally intended voter or it was given away. Either way that's how fraud can be easily detected. Keep in mind, the barcode matching requirement does not require any personal information that isn't on the outside of an envelope, and it doesn't prevent states from using mail to conduct elections, so the hysterical reactions are confirmation they know the gig is up."

VodkaPundit at PJM notes Bessent to Reveal 'Economic D-Day' Against Iran. ""The U.S. Treasury is preparing to expand secondary sanctions on countries and companies doing business with Iran, forcing trading partners to choose between Tehran and access to the dollar-based financial system," Unusual Whales posted Monday, summarizing a paywalled Financial Times report." Francis Sempka at Am Spec, Trump is Combining Geoeconomic and Kinetic Warfare Against Iran, "American impatience has repeatedly undermined the political gains of military victories. The war against Iran may be no different." wretchardthecat @wretchardthecat, "Iranian oil shipments to Asia have nearly dried up as US pressure on Tehran disrupts supplies. Chinese refiners are facing tighter availability, with Iranian crude prices shifting from a discount to a premium of around $4 a barrel. A major factor behind the shortage is the impact of US efforts to block Iranian oil shipments. Loaded Iranian tankers have been unable to leave the Persian Gulf, while empty vessels remain stranded outside the region." Brian Cates @drawandstrike, "You're gonna see a lot of weird shit go down over the next 2 weeks. Some of these 60+ entities will REFUSE to stop the money laundering. They can't. If they do, financial drug/human/sex/arms/dark web networks they've spent DECADES building and expanding will start collapsing. They're in a damned if they do, damned if they don't situation now. Gird your loins...the strong ripples of this are gonna show up in some really strange places in Europe." Quote Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@SecScottBessent: "Let me be clear: any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the U.S. Dollar system. The clock just started ticking." x.com/RapidResponse4…"

Ben Smith at RedState observes Google Pulls Every Last Pixel Product Out of China. Fred Fleitz at Am Great warns Before Trump Meets Kim Jong Un Again, Five Things Must Happen First "These steps build on the existing strong U.S.-South Korea partnership, advance American interests, and create space to resolve lingering bilateral frictions." 

At TownHall Matt Vespa sees NBC Tried to Do Major Damage Control for Abdul El-Sayed. Tim Scott Shut It Down. At PJM Vicky Taft watches NBC's Welker to Head-Shaking Tim Scott: Let's Pretend That El Sayed's Terror Ties Don't Count and Dave Manney notes PETA Savaged Kristi Noem. For Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, It Found Excuses. From Da Caller, ‘That’s Not My Grandpa’s Democratic Party’: JD Vance Blasts Dem Senate Candidate El-Sayed. Vic Nava at NYPo, Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News’ Jesse Watters ‘Are you circumcised?’ in bizarre moment as he defends sex change surgery for minors. Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal hears Far-Left Streamer Hasan Piker Says He’s More Respectful of Charlie Kirk Than Kirk’s Widow. Well, he is Muslim after all. Driscoll at Insty, on HOW IT STARTED: Socialist Robert Reich on Election Night 2024 Warned Elon Musk: “I guarantee you I’m going to make life so difficult for you, really so difficult for you, so just be very careful of yourself.” How It’s Going: Jon Najarian @jonnajarian, "Whenever I need a good laugh, I just read Elon's response to this intellectual dwarf." John Kass asks Daddy, Where Do Communists Come From? "These young Americans don’t have the work ethic or inclination to build a career or a business. They don’t want the burdens of traditional family life. They’re disappointed and confused. Their contributions to society are mostly street chants beginning with the words “Whadda we want?”"

retard mode ✞ @retardmode, "gary indiana not having power is an amazing story of diversity >entire city council is black >every electric company executive is black >black residents can’t stop shooting at vehicles working to restore power and they all blame racism for going without power for so long." Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "The people who made a secular religion out of George Floyd’s death are here to tell you that you shouldn’t dare politicize Iryna Zarutska’s murder."

PJM's Cathy Salgado asks Hiding Much? Newsom Signs 'Stop Nick Shirley Act.' cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander, "We need to find a new name for “nonprofits“. They are very profitable for those who run them." Quote Katy Grimes @KATYSaccitizen, "The Receipts: California Assemblyman Corey Jackson Steers $6 Million to His Own Nonprofit. Assemblyman Dr. Corey Jackson also named his own nonprofit, his legislative district’s “Nonprofit of the Year.”. $6M is listed in the California FLOOR REPORT OF THE 2026-27 BUDGET." TownHall's Dmitri Bolt lays it out This Is How Much of a Difference Rooting Out Fraud Could Make for Medicare's Lifespan. Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " HOLY CRAP! Dr. Oz reveals that if 100% of fraud is abolished from Medicare, the Medicare Trust Fund will DOUBLE its lifespan "In JUST this past year — we cut $42 BILLION of fraud from Medicare...by NEVER letting the money out the door."..." Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630, "This is a plain reality almost everyone ignores. You can think we over-spend on Israel or Gaza aid, some weapons system, etc. But, Defense and State COMBINED are like 11% of the budget. Significantly cutting gov't size requires targeting entitlements." Quote Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett, "47% of government spending is on some form of welfare. Only 8% is on defense. Reducing welfare spending is profoundly difficult politically...but it must be done or we will go the way of Rome. x.com/Handre/status/…" At PJM VodkaPundit notices California’s Revenge on Paramount Comes With a $7 Million-a-Day Price Tag.

On Tinfoil Tuesday PJM's Kevin Downy asks Which Politicians AREN'T Chinese Assets? Bob Hoge at RedState, So You're Saying There's a Chance? Polling in CA Gubernatorial Race Takes Surprising Twist. Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx, "SHOCK POLL: It’s a SINGLE-DIGIT race for governor. Becerra 49% / Hilton 41% / 10% Undecided We’ve cut the margin from 25% to 8% in less than two months! Our campaign is SURGING; the Machine is reeling. Keep the pressure on!" I suppose it's possible, but I'm not counting that chicken just yet.

TheFOO @PolitiBunny, "Those campers were literally in Ontario, Tim. Holy shit. lol" Quote Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz, "When a group of YMCA campers needed to be rescued during the wildfires on our northern border, it was Canada who immediately helped. Not a word from Trump." To be fair, Trump could have used it as an excuse to invade Canada.

PJM's Tom Jipping and Hans von Spakovsky have August’s Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award: Judges Balk at White House Ballroom. From the Center Square, AGs conceal records tied to longstanding plans to sue Trump. 

Shooting News Week is glad the Ninth Circuit Smacks Down Anti-Gun Orgs That Sued ATF Claiming it Didn’t Regulate ‘Ghost Guns’ Nearly Enough.

Gavin McInnes @Gavin_McInnes, "Ah, so it WAS an invasion. Got it." Quote NEXTA @nexta_tv, "Morocco has made territorial claims against Spain Moroccan Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi said Rabat maintains “historical and geographical rights” to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and wants to create a special mechanism with Madrid for negotiations." Ace cites Morocco: Now That We've Sent Criminals to Invade Your Country, We Are Prepared to Negotiate Your Surrender of the Conquered Territory. Brendan O'Neill at NYPO opines ‘Rape leaflets’ for migrants enrage the British public — and prove Trump’s point. Visegrád 24 @visegrad24, "German nurse on how security in the ERs has changed due to mass-immigration: “If 2 Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in. As soon as certain surnames come up, we bring in the police.” She speaks about the problems with clan members: “It usually doesn't take long for 20, 30, 40 family members to show up in front of the hospital. They have special Telegram groups where they alert each other, and they want to make their presence felt in a way that's often aggressive: 'We're here; we stand by our people—and you can expect trouble if anything happens to them.' In these circles, it's common for the mothers and women to scream loudly and in high drama. This high noise level is a stress factor for the staff and also for the patients.”"

Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens, "Once you remember that this man used to be the chief intellectual leader of the Conservative movement for 25 years, it all starts to make sense why the GOP functioned like controlled opposition from the 1990s until Trump came along. Because that’s exactly what they were." Quote Bill Kristol @BillKristol, "Abolish ICE. Now."

jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL, "(She made up a quote and attributed it to a man who couldn't defend himself, because he had just been murdered.)" Quote The New York Times @nytimes, "Breaking News: An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to rehire Karen Attiah, a columnist who was fired over her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk." From Ace, Arbitration Board Says That Racist Grifter Karen Attiah Was Wrongly Fired for Making Up Fake Racist Quotes "by" Charlie Kirk and Celebrating His Murder; Hasan Piker Mocks Kirk's Murder in Hate Rally, "Karen Attiah is a degenerate, unqualified DEI hire formerly, and now presently, employed by the Washington Post to write the same three columns about racism, colonialism, "Islamaphobia" and sexism over and over again while hammering checks."

At TownHall, Steve Miller explores How Would a Jason Arday Scandal Play Out Here? We've already seen it with the Harvard Preznit. The left will defend anything if they're black and left. Adrian Vermeule @Vermeullarmine, "The issue isn’t that the universities won’t admit to being progressive seminaries. (Does anyone not realize what they are?) It’s not a consumer disclosure issue. The real problem is substantive: progressivism is bad, it has injected poison into the body politic for decades, and universities should be ordered to the good, the true and the beautiful." Quote Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy "We propose that universities that are committed to progressive policies simply say so." In a new @washingtonpost op-ed, HxA President John Tomasi and Harvard Professor Tyler VanderWeele encourage progressive schools to model themselves after religious colleges." Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil, "This is really sad: When psychology professors are asked whether they'd put the truth before social equity concerns, 66.4% of male professors said yes, but fewer than half of female professors (43%) agreed. In both groups, too many put equity before truth." Try it in a real science. At Althouse, "In 2021, Columbia University law professor Philip Hamburger argued that the U.S. public school system violates the First Amendment." ""'Education,' he wrote, 'consists mostly in speech, and parents have a right under the First Amendment to exercise authority over what their children hear.' Forcing families to accept government messaging — or pay a steep price to escape it — amounts to unconstitutional pressure. A lawsuit filed in Nebraska on Aug. 13 brings that argument into court — and could open a path toward universal school choice." From "Are public schools unconstitutional? A Nebraska court will decide. The challenge to compulsory education combined with public-school-only funding could lead to universal school choice" (WaPo)(gift link)."

Matt Margolis thinks you should Check Out Spencer Pratt’s Brutal Takedown of the Left’s Defense of Lindsay Clancy. Cernovich @Cernovich, "Whoa." Quote Freedomain @StefanMolyneux, "How would women be reacting if Lindsay Clancy had murdered the children of a Somali neighbour?" Marko Jukic @mmjukic, "I am begging sensitive young men not to make decisions about women and family based on the bottom-of-the-barrel gender war ragebait that if blasted in everyone's faces 24/7 barely makes eks dot com profitable to advertisers in a free market." Quote Spergler Acolyte @SperglerAcolyte, "The timeline as of late has hardened my decision to never have a wife nor kids." Gavin McInnes @Gavin_McInnes, "Crazier still: it WAS written about Islam. Atwood was disgusted by what the Muslims were doing to women during the Iranian revolution and she imagined that happening here." Quote Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "The fact that leftists use the Handmaid's Tale to protest Christianity while ignoring the fact that it's way more similar to Islam will never not be hilarious to me."

vittorio @IterIntellectus, "testosterone literally counteracts conformity give men testosterone and they become less responsive to audience expectations and put more weight on their own judgment relative to other people’s testosterone is the independent-thought hormone this explains so much it’s not even funny." Quote Templarpilled @Templarpilled, "Please read the abstract of this study. Men who received testosterone boosters did not care about being watched by two women when making decisions."

New York Post @nypost, "Enes Kanter, Royce White not eligible for WNBA after draft declarations." Physics Geek @physicsgeek, "Look at all the bigoted transphobes attacking her just for speaking her mind. She'll show all the haters in the WNBA next year." Quote, Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Enes Kanter, one of the bravest women I know, just got kicked out of a @wnba game after being cursed out by a Chicago player. Is this any way for one woman to treat another?! I can’t believe this league is real." I think they made their point. At Ace a Real Headline: "WNBA team reveals new 'non-binary' turtle mascot to taunt Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham" "Is the WNBA okay?" No. 

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Embracing The Suck up on time and under budget at The Other McCain (if you count Megan).