Flotsam and Jetsam - Weekend Cleanup

WaEx reports Xi assured Trump he would cease aid to Iran, US ambassador to China claims. I believe he said it, but I don't believe him. Matt Margolis at PJM saw CNN Have a Total Meltdown Over Trump Showing Xi the Autopen Photo. "Anderson Cooper needed an emotional support animal and an emergency session with this therapist." Kyle Becker at RedState, Karoline Leavitt Dishes on Trump's Humiliation of World Leader. This is Priceless. At CTH, sundance hosts as Susan Kokinda Recaps Chairman Xi State Visit and Current Geopolitical Events.

WarTranslated @wartranslated, "On Patriot missiles, Trump said he’s talked with Zelensky a lot and claimed Zelensky agrees and Putin agrees too. He said he wants them to make a deal soon, possibly before a harsh winter." I hope so, but remain skeptical. Ted Snider at Am Con worries Will Ukraine Turn to Russia After the War?, "Don’t rule out warmer ties with Moscow." A least they share something like a shared language and culture. From 1945, The Race to Succeed Putin Has Begun. "Almost all of the names are in their late forties to mid-fifties, and that is the point. Putin’s own generation — men like FSB director Aleksandr Bortnikov, who turns 75 in November — is being passed over. The Kremlin’s reading of the Soviet collapse is that Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko dying in succession gave the West its opening, and Putin appears determined not to leave the same gap behind him." Sundance has the transcript, Russian President Vladimir Putin Reacts to Call for Trilateral Negotiations. It's fuzzy, but I'm seeing not much encouraging.

Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Daily reminder that the Strait of Hormuz is open and we are winning." Quote Gordo @GordoCDA, "Axios is reporting that 60 million barrels of oil has passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 72 hours according to US Government sources." At Da Caller, Senate Shoots Down Final War Powers Resolution Before Midterm Elections.    

At Am Mind how Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root, the corrupt Mexican officials who allow the problem to fester.

Misty Severi at JTN reports Hegseth announces Army National Guard has achieved its 2026 recruiting goal, "The Army reached its own recruiting goal for the current fiscal year in May, months before the Sept. 30 deadline. The Army said it enlisted 61,500 men and women four months before the deadline." 

Sundance finds New York Times Latest Example of AI Doom Fear is Silly. "The entire article is nothing more than taking something that is easily understood and adding jargon to make it sound complicated. The word “meddling” is used to describe the AI process of trying to get passed the gate. When there were individual people doing this, we called it “hacking” now the process is automated via instructions to the software search." The Free Bacon calls it ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It. "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said AI systems ‘may be deserving of important rights'." dnap @dnapway, "Chamath explains the political calculus behind Obama’s anti AI speech “This is a very important moment for a very simple reason, which is that the world is about to endow 3-6 companies with about $10 trillion of wealth.” “And what Obama knows very well is that most of those companies are overwhelmingly left leaning. And what he also knows is that there is a huge portion of that money that will then get put into philanthropic and charitable causes that then he and the people around him will be beneficiaries of ..." Salena Zito at Hat Hair is happy that Ground was Broken on a Rust Belt Powerhouse: Shippingport's Data Hub Rises in the Age of AI Anxiety. 

Breitbart Bus Dig, What Today’s Treasury Sell-Off Is Telling Us. "The yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 5.108 percent, its highest level since 2007. If this was a warning about Washington’s debt, its timing was peculiar. The sell-off followed a report that American businesses are growing much faster than economists expected. There was no news about the federal deficit or debt."

At Twitchy, a PhD’s Heart Breaks for Marine One Pilot Being Yelled at by Trump. Common Sense @commons96055467 "This picture is a very important picture to look at. It’s what America has become. Screaming powerful dudes treating others as if they are their servant property. My heart is breaking for this young Marine One pilot. He doesn’t deserve this shit from trump." Roy Dopson @dopson_roy, "I've taken hundreds of helicopter flights 1. Helicopters are loud, and the door was open 2. The pilot has his earphones on, which would make it hard for him to hear 3. Don't draw conclusions without understanding the situation." PhDs and common sense aren't handed out together. 

Hat Hair's John Sexton claims to have Some Good News in the Midst of All the Wave Election Talk. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "You are in the middle of an intensive, carefully orchestrated information warfare campaign designed to make you believe that the midterms are already lost and that there is no hope. This only works if you choose to let it work. Don't let it work. Fight the power."

Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline, "People keep calling U.S. healthcare a "free market failure." The truth is, it hasn't been a free market in 70 years. Here’s how decades of central planning created a $5.3T crisis:..."

The face you make after you voted for socialism because gas was expensive. pic.twitter.com/HEFsbtdZWu

— Resist CBDC 🏁 (@Resist_CBDC) September 26, 2026

At Power Lines The Week in Pictures:

Xi’s Gotta Have It Edition

FischerKing @FischerKing64, "Obama ran an entire campaign on ‘hope and change.’ Then he governed as a statist who backed the existing power structure, refused to break up the banks, continued the senseless foreign wars - and made sure he made tens of millions in Netflix deals after. He is a reason for people being cynical today when politicians talk about ‘a moral and ethical story.’" Quote CSPAN @cspan, "Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment." This one was fun, Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy, "Moderate Democrats wanna sanitize the last decade with "Woke 1.0 was craaaaazy." No. Woke 1.0 was evil." From WaEx, AOC’s team admitted it: The Green New Deal was never about saving the planet. From the Crimson Hub, Here are all the Democrats defense pork john Martin Kao donated to, and whom ProPublica never mentioned in their “corruption” piece. Nick Arama at RedState sees Biden Receive a Planned Parenthood Service Award, and It Does Not Go Well. 

Paula Baker and Don Critchlow at Da Fed explain How Socialist Democrats Use The Soros Strategy To Fill Local Courts With Woke Judges. From the OCR, California Supreme Court rules against Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in ballot seizure fight. @instapundit @instapundit, "It is shocking that the British Army, which was decimated by German machine guns in 1914, has in 1915 enthusiastically adopted the machine gun itself." Quote National Review @NRO, "It remains a supreme irony that Trump, the president most pursued by his enemies via lawfare, has become infamous as its most enthusiastic practitioner." Two wrong may not make a right, but they might make an even.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "DHS just revealed that rent prices are DROPPING in cities with increased levels of ICE enforcement. -San Antonio: -4.8% -Austin: -4.3% -Dallas: -3% -Houston: -3% -Miami: -2.6% -Phoenix: -4.2% -Atlanta: -3.2% -Nashville: -5.3% -New Orleans: -8% The most effective solution to the affordability crisis: Mass Deportations" Proving causation may be difficult, but the mechanisms is obvious, reduce housing demand, and prices fall.

Expose H1B Fraud @JobsNowPaper, "BREAKING: Rochester General Hospital in New York hired 82 resident doctors. 80 are foreign workers on H-1B or J-1 visas. Only 2 are Americans. 98% of the residency slots went to visa workers- mostly from countries with documented USMLE cheating. Americans got 2 jobs." joshua steinman @JoshuaSteinman, "They made it impossible for normal American kids to get into medical school, then said we needed to import a bunch of foreign doctors because there was a”shortage.” Why? Because becoming a doctor was one of the ways smart working class kids could lift themselves out of poverty." Quote Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD, "25% of US physicians are NOT American, yet somehow the AMERICAN Medical Association is lobbying to let more foreign doctors in. American Hospital Association I get - they want cheap labor. But AMA?"

From Althouse “During the Obama administration they tapped the AP bureau’s phones and the phones of AP bureau reporters. They tapped their phones! "Said Atlantic writer James Kirchick on Bill Maher's show last night." James Price at Da Wire goes Inside Britain’s Infrastructure Of Information Control. "Britain's state-imposed “narrative control” has jumped the shark." PJM's Cathy Salgado notes CBC Suspends Jewish Journalist for Daring to Expose Pro-Hamas Protestors. Well, Canada. At State of the Day, State of Thursday: DEMS GOT NEW DIGITAL SOCK PUPPETS. "For the low, low price of $30 a post, he can create a TikTok account, lie about who and where he is, and read a script Democrats have prepared for him about the cost explosion they created!" Scott Pinsker at PJM on What Tucker Carlson Gets Wrong About Jews — and What Conservatives Get Wrong About Antisemitism. Did Tucker go crazy, or was he always just chasing an audience?

John Stossel at Hat Hair on the schools ditching gifted and talented programs for "equity," Un-Gifted and Talented. Dexter Van Zile @dextervanzile, "For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God. Allah himself once spoke of working at a retail store owned by “a Jewish guy that’s got short arms and deep pockets.” ..." From the Free Bacon, Harvard Turns to Biden, Obama Lawyers To Fend Off Race-Blind Admissions Enforcement. Hat Hair's Dave Strom asks How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses? Relax, on conservatives are afraid to speak their minds. At the College Fix, Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist. You'll only find something that stupid in academe,or maybe the media. From the Chronic, Suicidal Empathy Is Colorblind: Ask the Author of the 1619 Project. From RCE, The ABA Shouldn’t Get to Grade Its Own Homework.

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal hears an Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender. Matt Vespa sees the Lesbian Massachusetts Bar That Got Wrecked for Relaxing Its Mask Mandates Continues to Be a Circus. From the Dispatch, Jonah Goldberg weighs in with the sense he usually has when not discussing Donald Trump, The Last Ditch for Mask Hysteria, "When the revolutionary praxis of COVID consciousness clashes with capitalism."

Stacy McCain on how the internet can drive you crazy, Deranged Stalker Deborah Frisch Is Out of Prison, But for How Much Longer?

From Althouse, "She’d done everything she thought men expected of women on the far right, so when the hatred came for Amy Dangerfield she felt so depressed she could barely stand."

"She’d moved from Australia to the United States in 2017 with a dream of spreading her internet-inspired beliefs: that women had driven men to madness through rejection and disrespect; that society needed strong men to survive...."

From "She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model 'groypettes.' A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame" (WaPo)(gift link).

While I'm not really well informed about Nick Fuentes, I do wonder why the left keeps harping on him and his few followers. Sure, he has some goofy, anti-left ideas about relations between the sexes, but that's not very novel on either side of the political scale. Has he advocated violence, like a lot of lefty influencers? Not that I know of. Beside, I heard he might be one of the people the SPLC was paying off.

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 - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Flotsam and Jetsam - 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. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Sen. Graham Dead, Long Live Sen. Graham

Darlene Graham (Nordone), that is. Don Surber lauds Lindsey Graham, a profile in courage. At PJM Dave Manney notices A Power Vacuum Has Opened in the GOP. Trump's Next Move Could Define It and Matt Margolis thinks Trump Drops a Bombshell Pick for Lindsey Graham’s Seat, his sister Darline Graham Nordone. I don't think that's a bombshell, I think it's a placeholder. At Althouse "I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina." ""This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!" Signed President DONALD J. TRUMP, at Truth Social." At Ace, Trump Endorses Lindsey Graham's Sister to Replace Him, "Uhhh... I don't like politics becoming so dynastic. But I guess the idea is that his sister taking over for the rest of the term would be non-controversial right now. All of the people who want to run for the seat also want to be appointed to fill out the term, because that gives them a huge incumbency advantage. Appointing Graham's sister to the seat avoids that... assuming she really only serves for the remaining months." From Sundance at CTH, President Trump Endorses Interim Senate Replacement, Darline Graham Nordone and South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster Holds Press Conference Announcing Vacancy Appointment of Darlene. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, CBS: McMaster to Appoint Graham's Sister to Fill Out His Term After Trump Nomination. I guess we just have to hope she's not a flaming liberal. Scott Pinsker at PJM notices The (Pink) Elephant in the Room: Why the Whisper Campaign About Lindsey Graham’s Sex Life Matters. He reminds me a bit of an old friend from work, who, when a new woman asked if he was gay because he showed no interest in dating at all, I replied, "I don't have the vaguest idea." For all I know he was completely asexual, an unusual position for an evolutionary biologist.

Buck Throckmorton as Ace's has in the MORNING RANT: Great Economic News You Won’t Get from the Legacy Media. At Da Signal some Georgia Polling: Jackson and Collins Can Win as Trump’s Approval Rises. Hat Hair's John Sexton sees Trump vs. California NIMBYs.

Hat Hair's John Sexton tells us What's Burning in Russia Today? Lots of Things. VodkaPundit at PJM says Ukraine’s New Naval Strategy Is Brilliantly Simple. Ukrainska Pravda claims Russian hackers breached cameras on NATO logistics routes to track weapons shipments, and Pravda is known for the truth... Sundance at CTH smirks at Moodys: Without U.S Military Leading Europe, Credit Rating for EU Sovereign Countries Will be Lowered "Now, tell me again how Europe is not living on the back of America." VodkaPundit at Insty, THIS IS FROM THE SUN, SO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT — BUT IT’S TOO CUTE NOT TO SHARE: Desperate Castro family offer Trump private ISLAND for ‘super resort’ as president threatens to decapitate Cuba regime. “The idyllic Cayo Santa María super resort would be renamed ‘Trump Island’ – but only if US sanctions are lifted and plans for a luxury hotel casino project go ahead.”

PJM's Sarah Anderson hears Rubio to ICC: Hands Off the United States — Oh, And We're Shutting You Down. At Hat Hair Beege Welborn sees Sec State Lays a Flaming Marco Down on That Rogue ICC.

Fred Fleitz at Am Great thinks Trump’s Patience With the Iranian Regime Runs Out "President Trump’s decisive action this week reaffirms that the United States will not subsidize aggression through endless patience." Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "@POTUS on Iran: "It was a done deal, and then they broke it. They always break it. We've had 10 deals with these people — and so we're just going to hit them very hard... They're a bad group of people. They've been this way for a long time." No way out, but through. AP whines US attacks Iran and Tehran retaliates across the Middle East as both vie for control of strait. At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees Airstrikes on Iran Continue, Capt. Ed, Trump: Blockade on Iran Is Back, Baby, Bigger Than Ever and threatening US tolls for passage, Dave Strom, Trump: US Will Take the Strait and Run It; UPDATE: Trump Reimposes Iran Blockade, Duane Patterson, The Only Toll In the Strait of Hormuz Is Being Paid By the Iranian Regime and Dave Strom again, NYT: Former Iran President Ahmadinejad Was Israeli Spy. From News Wax, NY Times: Mossad Recruited Iran's Ahmadinejad. Ace, Hmm: Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Was Recruited as a Spy by Israel; Israel Hoped He Could Take Control of Iran After Assassinations of Iran's President and His Advisors, "So that was the plan. But plans tend to not survive first contact with the enemy." Even if it isn't true, I could see why Mossad would spread the rumor. Keep them worried about their "friends." i24 News, ‘Revenge is certain’: Iranian newspaper publishes ‘hit list’ naming Trump, Netanyahu. "Hamshahri depicted 13 US, Israeli and European officials in prison uniforms as Mojtaba Khamenei renewed Iran’s pledge to avenge his father’s killing." Is this supposed to be a surprise? Struan Stevenson at TownHall alliterates Bread, Bombs, and Bankruptcy: Iran's Theocracy Faces Its Final Reckoning and Cameron Arcad, Iranian Drones in Cuba? Here's What Trump Knows. All the more reason to take care of the Cuba problem.

LOL. LMAO even.

TownHall's Kurt Schlichter observes No Democrat Has the Brains or Courage to Not Be Crazy but Matt Vespa thinks Dems Are Getting Really Tired of Bernie Sanders' Political Schtick. EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince, "Is every communist a failed millionaire nepo baby?" Quote Stu Smith @thestustustudio, "Fergie Chambers, heir to the Cox media fortune and a major funder of militant pro-Palestine groups, was detained in Spain as the Trump administration seeks his extradition on federal charges carrying up to 30 years in prison." Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck, "People can laugh but don’t underestimate these people. In only a few years, these weirdos seized control of the city where this photo was taken (Denver). They mostly don’t have kids. Socialism and communism are their child and they’ll die for it like we’d die for our actual kids. If you want to beat them longterm, the silent majority must see them as threats to our kids lives, because they are. Only then will we have the fortitude to dismantle them. And you’re going to have to drop the silent part of "silent majority"…. Because to beat communists, you must overrun them, you must be louder, you must be stronger, you must be more vicious like a lion protecting their young and you must be just as willing to sacrifice." Quote End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Look at the crowd at today's DSA event. They tried to delete this. Too late." Dave Strom finds 'This Is Socialism' Propaganda Is Ridiculous. Sarah at Insty, THEY’RE NOT ANTI-ICE, THAT’S JUST THEIR COVER: INSURRECTION: Anti-ICE Mob Tries to Break Into Susan Collins’ Maine Office. Emma Camp opines Capitalism Gets a Bum Rap. "For many young people it’s simply a stand-in for the status quo. But the status quo is a huge improvement over the alternative." True capitalism has never been tried. 

A Larry vid at Hat Hair, Newsom Embraces Communists, Will Soon Regret It. VodkaPundit at PJM, Paramount Plays Hardball Against Newsom's Regulatory Goons. Brad Slager at RedState calls it Insanity: Steve Hilton Uncovers Why Police Can't Clear LA's Homeless Camps, NGOs sue them. Dave Strom hears Keith Ellison: Even You Need 'Gender Affirming Care' by using a very broad definition of gender affirming care. Speaking of changing definitions, at Twitchy, HIDE THE WOMEN! Zohran Mamdani's Explanation of Why R*pe Is Rising In New York Is Abominable. End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "Mamdani on why rape is up in NY: "A lot of it is from expanding what counts as rape." PM, MAMDANI’S NYC: Homeless encampment with drug trafficking, prostitution reaches 12 blocks. From Ace, Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico Woos the Most Important Voting Bloc in Texas, Perverts Who Attend Drag Queen Shows, "He's such a moderate centrist," and Humiliated by His Fawning Over a Nazi Rapist, Ro Khanna Tries to Change the Subject By Trying to Force His Way Past an Israeli Checkpoint and Then Crying "Jews Are Abusing a Brown Man!" When They Stop Him (for Ninety Minutes, to Check IDs), "Ro Khanna's absurd idea that he can be president took a big hit when his Rapist Wingman Graham Platner was forced to withdraw." From Althouse, The Republican never wins the governorship in Colorado, so what do Republican primary voters think they are doing?, "I'm reading "He Says He Killed a Man. Republicans Nominated Him Anyway" by Michelle Goldberg in the NYT. ... Goldberg leaves out the details about that killing. Grok relays the story as told by Marx: "severe childhood abuse (physical, sexual, and emotional) by multiple figures, including being beaten, electrocuted, tortured, and nearly killed (e.g., left in a cooler).... stepfather placing a gun in his hands, guiding his finger to pull the trigger, and shooting a man in the back of the head....""

Bryan Beal @bryanrbeal, "The fact this one dude - by himself - can walk into any state and find blatant fraud everywhere he goes proves two things: 1) the fraud is rampant at an unprecedented scale and 2) the government agencies who are supposed to protect our tax dollars are either completely incompetent or complicit in the fraud." Quote jay plemons @jayplemons, "Nick Shirley uncovers an adult day care in Flushing, Queens with 7,000 phantom members. Nick: “This public document says you have 7,899 members.”" I assume complicity. Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "The shocking part of this is how most growth in the healthcare industry has come from bureaucracy, not actual healthcare." Quote Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD, "Over the past 34 years, healthcare has replaced manufacturing as the top employer in the vast majority of states." The more people involved, the less each person feels any obligation for the outcomes. 

From NYPo, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz bankrolled $480 million activist crusade that’s made your bacon and eggs pricier.

TheBlaze @theblaze, "Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin: “The SAVE America Act would make it hard for any Democrat in any state to win any election.”" From Ace, More Illegal Aliens Discovered Voting Illegally in US Elections, "John Solomon at JusttheNews:"

Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89, "Cambridge disabled Shot Spotter because they said it was racist. Then a black Public Works employee got shot, lay undiscovered for over an hour while bleeding out in a public park, and died because first responders didn't know a shooting happened."

The Hollywood Reporter reports Hunter Biden, Nick Fuentes Interview Nearly Turns Physical, Report Says, "The sit-down, brokered by Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan, reportedly grew heated before cooler heads prevailed." When you want both sides to lose.

NYPo cites Reuters, DOJ opens probe into allegations against United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain.

Capt. Ed, BREAKING: ICE-Involved Shooting in Maine; One Dead. Already being politicized. On the Fox Bus, Trump administration launches aggressive H-1B visa fraud crackdown.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "“Shocking”? There is literally nothing shocking about big tech suppressing stories that are inconvenient and harmful to Democrats." Quote New York Post @nypost, "Negative news about alleged rapist Graham Platner was suppressed by Big Tech, shocking study finds." And at the substack, Fort Worth Police EXPOSED for Violating 1st Amendment.

From CJ, Tal Fortgang says Stop WOKE Is Stopped—But Reform of Higher Education Will Go On. "A court struck down Florida’s ban on classroom indoctrination, but states have other means of wresting control of public education from dubious faculty." From the College Fix, Texas public university won’t fund professor’s travel to DEI-forward event and New Hampshire trans-female athletes drop lawsuit following recent SCOTUS decision. At Compact, Title IX Is Holding Back US Men’s Soccer.

Amy Curti sees CNBC Lists the Ten 'Worst' States to Live In. See If You Can Spot What They Have In Common, "To score the states for quality of life, we use hard data on factors like crime rates, air quality and healthcare. We also consider the cost and availability of childcare, inclusiveness of state laws, and reproductive rights."

End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "This is not a right-wing parody video Toronto Police actually posted this." From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, “A Culture of Courage”: A German Celebrates American Freedom. Beege Welborn is suspicious of The Murder of Ann Widdecombe in England. Jarvis @jarvis_best, "Things are getting serious in the UK. If it turns out a terrorist murdered her, he'll almost certainly be looking at a VERY steep fine." Quote GB Politics @GBPolitcs, "BREAKING: Counter-Terrorism Police have now taken charge of the investigation into the suspected murder of Ann Widdecombe, following the emergence of significant new information and evidence."

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Slowly I Turn up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.