ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS: Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway. #CommissionEarned

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Watch: The Priceless Reaction of Ron DeSantis When He’s Asked About Crist Calling Him a Dictator.

Reporter to Governor DeSantis: "[Charlie Crist] says you're a dictator. How do you respond to that?"

His reaction is priceless 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ta6uiRmSEn

— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) August 25, 2022

340-MILE-HIGH TECH: SpaceX and T-Mobile team up to use Starlink satellites to ‘end mobile dead zones.’

Speaking at SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas on Thursday night, Sievert said T-Mobile will be dedicating a “slice of its mid-band PCS spectrum” to be integrated into Starlink satellites launched next year.

T-Mobile users will be able to use messaging, MMS and certain messaging apps, from remote points across the lower 48 states, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Hawaii and even some remote points in the water.

Eventually, the service will work with voice, Sievert said. T-Mobile plans to include the service in its most popular mobile plans but did not disclose specific pricing.

Musk said the service will work with Starlink’s second generation satellites, which have very large antennae and will be able to transmit directly to a cell or mobile phone.

The service won’t require mobile users to get a new phone. Musk said in or after a natural disaster, even if all the cell towers are taken out, the planned service should work.

If I’m reading this correctly, coverage will expand as Starlink’s satellite constellation grows.

GOTTA PAY FOR THE STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS SOMEHOW, I GUESS. “In upholding the constitutionality of [the National Park Service’s] permit and fee regime, the [D.C. circuit] court drew a bewildering distinction between the act of filming and other steps in ultimately communicating through film, holding that recording video “involves merely a noncommunicative step in the production of speech… Ansel Adams would enjoy full First Amendment protection to exhibit his famous National Park photos, but not in taking them.”

SHE JUST ISN’T VERY GOOD AT THIS: KJP Loses Control of Press Briefing as Angry Black Reporter Complains About Being Ignored. “What is it about black reporters that KJP doesn’t like?”

WELL, YES: Student loan bailout is ‘gasoline on the inflationary fire,’ chief Obama economist warns.

MAKE THEM PAY: Community college sued after banning flyers critical of socialism.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Seven Reasons (and Counting) Why Republicans Should Send Fauci to Jail.

OUT: “FOLLOW THE SCIENCE” IN: “F*CK THE SCIENCE!” Georgetown University imposes mask mandates this fall, against CDC guidelines.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO FULL OF HATE? Kathy Hochul’s call for 5.4M Republicans to leave New York is dangerous and disgusting.

THIS WILL BE TO ME WHAT KENNY ROGERS ROASTERS WAS TO COSMO KRAMER: Shaquille O’Neal-owned chicken restaurant coming to Knoxville. “The restaurant will offer chicken sandwiches, tenders, milkshakes and even ‘Cheez-It crusted mac n’ cheese.'”

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE: A now-former American Express employee has sued the credit card giant for firing him due to his being a White person. This kind of discrimination will likely increase in the years ahead, so how about let’s let a thousand such suits flower?

ANOTHER LIBSOFTIKTOK SCOOP: Children’s hospital admits to performing hysterectomies on trans minors. “Children’s National must have seen the negative coverage about Boston Children’s Hospital because they modified their website the day after I took screenshots of it.”

13 U.S. HOSPITALS PERFORM GENDER TRANSITION SURGERY ON MINORS: When Boston Children’s Hospital denied performing gender transition surgeries on minors, The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold dug into the evidence and guess what he discovered – Boston Children’s Hospital has performed at least 204 such procedures between January 2017 and January 2020.

That’s just for starters because Arnold kept digging and came up with a detailed list of 13 American hospitals that perform the procedure that even a prominent transgender advocacy group rules out for minors:

“While legal in most states, performing gender transition surgery on minors violates even the practices suggested by transgender activists themselves. According to ‘Standards of Care’ published by a transgender advocacy group, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), ‘age of majority in any country’ is a requirement for any type of gender transition surgery (although they leave some ambiguity regarding ‘top’ surgeries, which attempt to reshape a person’s chest to appear as the opposite gender). ‘Bottom’ surgeries, which remove genitals and therefore permanently sterilize a person are even further out-of-bounds. WPATH classifies both types of gender transition surgery as irreversible.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: America Was a Better Place When the FBI Didn’t Rig Elections. “Yesterday’s news revealed a double-whammy that added more clarity to just how heavy the Bureau’s thumb was on the 2020 presidential election scale, and all of it has to do with Joe Biden’s sleazebag progeny, Hunter.”

SET YOUR DVRS FOR THIS CAN’T-MISS OCCASION: VP Kamala Harris to attend Artemis 1 moon launch: Harris will attend the scheduled Artemis 1 liftoff on Aug. 29 and will deliver a speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. “While at KSC, Harris, who also chairs the National Space Council, will deliver a speech highlighting the historic importance of NASA’s Artemis program, which plans to land the first woman and the first person of color on the moon, a White House official said in an emailed update on Thursday.”

NO, THE LOCKDOWNS DID THAT: Pandemic Triggers 89% Increase, $53 Billion, In Food Stamp Spending.

NOT WHEN IT’S 4% OF YOUR TOTAL DEBT: ‘$10K Doesn’t Make A Big Difference.’ Law Grads Are Lukewarm On Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan.

JUST SAY NO: Warren’s corrupt and ignorant pitch: We have to bail out Academia because it’s too damn expensive, or something.

ELIMINATING CELLPHONE DEAD SPOTS with SpaceX’s Starlink.

THAT’S WHAT THEY DO: The Disinformation Governance Board Is Now Officially Dead, But the Enemies of Free Speech Will Keep Trying.

DEAL OF THE DAY: Match Men’s Cargo Pants. #CommissionEarned

UNIONS ARE DYING. GOOD RIDDANCE: The Lid columnist A.J. Kaufman looks at recent media reports of a new surge in union organizing efforts and concludes the data still shows unions may well be headed to the ash heap of history.

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED: The Malign Genesis of ESG.

COLORADO: The Polis plan to make traffic even worse.

Your car pollutes the most in stop-and-go traffic. It pollutes least when cruising the highway at a consistent speed.

The solution to this pollution challenge is perfectly aligned with the solution to your anger with the car stuck in front of you — get that car moving again.

But thanks to a new progressive “green” law, signed by our “libertarian” governor and implemented by his transportation department and local government elites, the traffic around Colorado will by design get progressively and quickly worse.

This is governmental malfeasance. It should be criminal.
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When your veins are bulging during your next parking-lot-on-the-highway moment, remember it’s not because we have too little money going to “transportation.” It’s that the money that should go to expand that highway went to a bike path or trolley car that statistically no one is using.

Like your biological bloodstream, without a healthy, free-flowing system of roads, we die. Colorado will die.

Democrats really do despise their own voters.

Well, that’s why I call it “gooder and harder.”