Flotsam and Jetsam - Dana White for Press Secretary?

But first, some continued ruminations on the selection of Stephen Miller for Chief of Staff. As usual, Althouse resorts to the NYT, "People close to Mr. Miller said he had shown no interest in compromising with congressional Democrats and was ready for a fight over subpoenas and investigations..." "From "In Elevating Stephen Miller, Trump Doubles Down on Hard-Line Agenda/The new White House chief of staff is responsible for some of the most provocative policies of President Trump’s second term, as well as an aggressive approach to executive power" (NYT)." Mike Davis @mrddmia, "This former illegal immigrant is threatening to jail the new White House chief of staff for helping the President execute federal law? Import the third world, become the third world." Quote Oversight Dems @OversightDems, "Official statement from incoming Oversight Chairman @RepRobertGarcia on Stephen Miller being announced as White House Chief of Staff:" "... Stephen Miller should lawyer up." Rusty Weiss at RedState sees Democrats Melt Down Over Stephen Miller, Then He Takes the Mic and Gives Them a Reason to Be Nervous. PJM's Matt Margolis explains Why Democrats Are Crashing Out Over Stephen Miller. "They wanted a chastened president who would spend his final two years tiptoeing around them. Instead, Trump handed the most powerful staff job in Washington to a man they deeply despise, and they read the move as defiance. They read it correctly." At the WaSun, How Stephen Miller’s Fixation on Minnesota’s Somalis Became a Full-Scale Crackdown. "The new White House chief of staff has spent the last year moving the federal government against one community in one state." News Wax reports Stephen Miller Pledges 'Absolute Loyalty' to Trump, like a good consigliere should. Insty, notes AND THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT TRUMP’S LANGUAGE: Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "The Democrat leader of the U.S. House, Hakeem Jeffries, just called for White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to be “eradicated like a malignant tumor”. Jeffries is part of the same death cult whose rhetoric inspired the violence that led to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and shooting of President Trump. The Democrat Party is the part of political violence." Quote Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries, "Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands. His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor. Fire him today." At Althouse, Real Trump and Fake Trump confront the reality of "Talafreako." 60 Minutes @60Minutes, "In an interview airing Sunday on 60 Minutes, correspondent Ross Douthat asks President Trump: If it took six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a deal done, do you think you could do it?" My response: Would top Democrats refrain from insulting Trump for six months too, or would this just be the usual unilateral "truce?"

News Wax reports UFC's Dana White Says He Will Meet With Trump Monday. Althouse finds "I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States.", "Wrote President Trump, quoted in "UFC’s Dana White says he will meet Trump on Monday to discuss press secretary offer/Trump’s previous press secretary, Katie Zacharia, left the role in October after just five days on the job" (NBC). Violent!" I don't follow UFC, or know much about Dana White, but I have my doubts. But then, I had my doubts about Pete Hegseth, and he's turned out well as far as I can see. Maybe Trump is a better judge of ability than I am.

Doug Truax at RCP says Democrats Didn’t Win – Republicans Lost. There’s a Way To Fix This. "Republicans must thrust truth to the forefront. They must stand firm in their convictions and offer a clear contrast to the coming Democrat overreach. They must offer plans that are clear, concise, and doable. They cannot waver. This isn’t a time to compromise our values." At News Wax, Trump Vows to 'Veto, Veto, Veto' Democrats at CPAC. Mark Tapscott blames it on abortion. Trump, GOP Apathy on Mifepristone is a Huge Problem, Helps Explain 2026 disaster. "Turnout among conservative Christians was down big-time on November 3, and the reason is linked to one that’s haunted Republicans for decades." So do I, not enough liberal mothers aborted 20-30 years ago. At Da Signal the Great Victor Davis Hanson: What Trump Must Do After the Midterm Losses. Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "The GOP is going to get a look in the weeks and months ahead at just how ruthless the new Dem majorities in Congress are going to be in trying to press their sudden advantage that is greater than they expected. The GOP should take notes and learn some lessons from what they are about to experience being in the "last" end of the whip while the Dems have the handle. Politics is no longer a "polite" business and the GOP has take too long to adapt to the fact that the "gentlemanly" way of engaging with "colleagues" from the other party is long outdated." At Althouse, "He's surrounded by demons who want him out and want him just destroyed. That's his staff... all completely compromised...." ""They were sending around a memo, a CIA manual about how to be a bad bureaucrat and subvert an institution from within. That's like sent around by all the career officials. They hate President Trump....Said Calley Means, on the new episode of Joe Rogan, which you can watch here (scroll back to the beginning if you want)." 

Lara Logan @laralogan, "If you really care about this country, this is one of the areas where your attention should be right now. @DataRepublican is exactly right. The greatest obstacle they face to a complete power grab is the Sec of War, Pete Hegseth. He has rebuilt a military that will stand by the constitution & is comitted to the oath every member takes. Hegseth does not back down or fear his enemies because he what he fears is God. They need him out of the way so badly - which should tell you just how important it is to stop them. Read the thread. The truth always matters but it is more important now than ever." Quote DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup @PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a..."

At Ars Technica, After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?, “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.” Bobby @bobbymorris280, "NOW: SpaceX officially suspended all launch pads, rocket telemetry codes, and orbit integration for European government satellites. Elon Musk canceled the launch contracts after the EU slapped X and Starlink with arbitrary billions in fines. The European Space Command labeled it an "act of war" and threatened to freeze bank accounts, prompting Musk to fire back that bureaucracy won't launch a 5-ton defense satellite. Globalist bureaucrats are finding out the hard way that weaponizing regulations against private innovation will leave their entire space defense infrastructure grounded. Do you back Elon Musk for cutting off the hostile EU? #AmericaFirst via @dessere88fenice REPLY." Leslie Eastman at LI, Voters Pull the Plug on Big Tech’s AI Data Center Boom. "China may have been the biggest winner November 3rd." Jordan Schachtel at Am Great looks at The Midterms and AI’s Credibility Problem, "If AI dangers are truly grave, why do they keep building?" Hat Hair's Salena Zito finds While the Public Fears AI, These Ohio and Iowa Business Owners Are Finding Relief. At the Volokh Conspiracy Gene Volokh celebrates an Attorney Fee Award Cut from $100K to $50K, Partly as Sanction for Hallucinated Citations. They need to fix the hallucination problem, ASAP.

Sundance at CTH announces Labor Report Shows Strong Job Gains +165,00 in October, with Revisions to August +53,000 and Sept +31,000. Breitbart Bus Dig, What Really Drove the GOP Midterm Losses?. "The fanatical foes of tariffs have been loudly announcing their explanation for the much larger-than-expected Republican election losses in this week’s midterm elections to anyone who will listen. Naturally, it’s the tariffs." John Hood at RCP swears In Ballot Items, Fiscal Conservatism Beats Socialism. "Well, examine the 2026 results more closely. The overriding issue was affordability, about which victorious Democrats talked incessantly and doomed Republicans never found their voice. What was the single most potent Democratic attack? That President Trump had raised rather than lowered consumer prices by socking Americans with tariffs. It was an anti-tax message! It was correct on the merits. And it worked brilliantly."

Reponsible Statecraft says Three cheers for Melania Trump-led ceasefire in Ukraine. Hat Hair's Beege Welborn sees Poland Simmering Away still. 

Matt Margolis thinks The Democrats' Coming Civil War Is Going to Be Lit! Jeff Charles at TownHall believes Debbie Wasserman Schultz Showed Why Democrats Might Not Hold Congress for Long. Hat Hair's John Sexton sees Progressives Had a Tough Election Night... in San Francisco. Have they hit bottom yet, or is this just their first attempt at rehab? Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson, "The Midterm is Not the Endterm It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties. But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments. Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts..." At Althouse, "In 2018, there was still a sense that Trump was an aberration or a fluke; that he’d gotten lucky in 2016 and Democrats could double down on who they were already..." ""... and end MAGA without changing much themselves. Democrats won power in 2018 and 2020 and wielded it so unconvincingly and alienatingly that Trump and his movement roared back, stronger and more dangerous, than ever. The Democratic Party that emerged from that bruising is chastened in a way its predecessor wasn’t. Democrats know they need to appeal to voters who mistrust them. They are not as liable to mistake Trump’s unpopularity for their popularity. All they have won is a chance to prove themselves. And so they may be more willing to learn lessons that this election had to teach." Writes Ezra Klein, in "A Stake Through the Heart of Trump’s Red Map" (NYT). I understand why they make headlines like that but it's SO out of line with the tone and substance of the article." At Shooting News Week, Liberal Gun Owner Worries Politicians He Just Elected Might Enact New Gun Control Laws.

Don Palmer at Da sees Signal Election Integrity Scored Big Wins Despite the Blue Wave. Kyle Becker @kylenabecker, "BREAKING: A missing memory card has FLIPPED the apparent outcome of a Georgia House race. Republican Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to LEADING by 262 after uncounted votes were discovered in Seminole County. Officials found a 388-vote discrepancy during routine checks. If the result holds, Democrats will have just a ONE-SEAT majority in the Georgia House. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into the error. Maybe Democrats can agree that we should now go to ALL PAPER BALLOTS?" Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "USPS has a labor union that endorses one party every election. The fact that we let them transport ballots is banana republic insanity." Quote News 4 San Antonio @News4SA, "Dozens of undelivered ballots were found among mail discarded in a park dumpster." From Campus Reform, FIU Election Day event distributes SPLC voter guide as affiliated political arm backs Democrats. "An SPLC flyer distributed at the campus event obtained by Campus Reform warned voters about an environment created by ‘ICE, law enforcement, extremists this year.’"

From Twitchy, Boycott Backfire: PA Leaders, Citizens Condemn Antisemitic Philly Bike Rally. From the Free Bacon, Abdul El-Sayed Taps Egyptian-American Attorney Who Accused 'Zionists' of 'Controlling' American Politics as Transition Director, "Brenda Abdelall has also accused Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' and 'terrorism'. Fox News @FoxNews, "WATCH: A former police officer accused of fatally stabbing a New York City jogger is escorted from a Brooklyn precinct by NYPD officers. Sayed Mohassib is seen walking alongside police Saturday as he faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with the killing. New photos show Mohassib appearing emotionless while in police custody. See the latest details in the case: https://foxnews.com..." Dr. Maalouf @realMaalouf, "Two Muslim cops in New York stopped a nurse for no apparent reason other than that she was walking her dog. They cornered her and threatened to seize her dog. When confronted, they got angry and couldn’t say what law she had broken. This is what happens when you give these people power. All I can say is that she was lucky there were passersby, because it was 3 AM and things could’ve ended much worse." At Althouse, The community note is back... and how embarrassing for The Free Press! The Free Press @TheFP, "Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed gave his victory speech in Arabic last night. Rep. Ilhan Omar addressed her victory party in Somali. And this morning, Iran's supreme leader posted that America's collapse "has accelerated." What should we make of these acceptance speeches? @SulkinMaya" Readers added context to this video, "Abdul El-Sayed gave his victory speech in English."

At Newsweek, Supreme Court Under Criminal Probe by DOJ—Which Laws May Have Been Broken. Who leaked the Dobbs decision? Matt Margolis sees Democrats Told Trump to 'Lawyer Up.' He Just Flipped the Script on Them. Sundance likes how President Trump asks DOJ to Investigate Threats from Congress.

Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal, Judicial Insurrection Breaks New Ground as Judge Defies Supreme Court Itself on immigration. From Althouse, "Van Der Merwe’s family of white South Africans arrived during Donald Trump’s first term..." ""... but they had good reason to expect that they would be granted asylum after Trump returned to office last year and signed an executive order saying the US would 'promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees,' based on the false claim that they would be 'escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination' at home..." From "Wisconsin state patrol trooper detained by ICE released from custody/Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe immigrated to US at 14 and has been waiting seven years for asylum case to be heard" (The Guardian). That's a pretty casual flinging of the expression "false claim." There should at least be a link to something explaining the basis for rejecting the position taken in the executive order. The word "claim" alone is enough to avoid expressing agreement."

John Sexton thinks Jennifer Welch Finally Goes Too Far for Advertisers. At Althouse "I know I shouldn't say that. But it's just a feeling." Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Dave Chappelle: “Ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered, and I shouldn’t say this publicly but…. I feel better.” This isn’t even comedy. It’s just sick…"

From the College Fix, Wisconsin voters approve amendment to ban preferential treatment based on race, sex at public colleges, universities

Start Your Engines: Liberal Women Announce They're Ready To Have Sex Again Now That Abortion Will Be Legal https://t.co/o8dQCRcJ7m

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 7, 2026

Oregon, My Oregon

 The most Portland thing you'll see all day:

I could not have scripted a better scene. She created him. She doesn't see it.

— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) October 26, 2026

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.

The Wombat has Rule 5 Sunday: A Salute to Mrs. Justin Verlander and FMJRA 2.0: No Grandeur This Week Just Misery up and awaiting your digital pleasure.

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.