JUVENILE DELINQUENT SEALS:  The Gang’s All Here!

IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, IT IS ONLY SLEAZE WHEN CONSERVATIVES DO IT:  Labour sleaze and why it matters.

THIS SHOULD BE CAUSE FOR IRELAND TO TURN RIGHT:  Why have eco-warriors gone to war with a rural Irish pub?

THE SINGLE MOST ASTROTURFED PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY:  Police Leaders for Community Safety, was founded in March of THIS YEAR.

ABOUT TIME:  Dozens of Senate and House lawmakers unleash on Biden-Harris admin’s child migrant ‘cover-up’.

SHE FIRED THE GUY WHO TRIED TO WALK BACK HER STATEMENT TOO:  Janet Jackson says Kamala Harris is ‘not black’.

IT’S LONG OVERDUE:  This is Nigel Farage’s time.

ALL YOUR POWER NEEDS SUPPLIED (WE WILL DETERMINE WHAT THEY ARE): The answer, my friends, sure ain’t blowin’ in the wind.

THEY ONLY TELL THE TRUTH BY ACCIDENT:  Washington Post Accidentally Admits Earth at Coolest Point in the Last 485 Million Years.

INSIDER TRADING? SAY IT ISN’T SO, HAMMERED PAUL!  Nancy Pelsoi’s Husband Sold Over $500K of Visa Stock Before DOJ Filed Antitrust Lawsuit.

THE LEFT BECLOWNS ITSELF…. ANOTHER DAY ENDING IN Y:  The Left’s Latest Attempt to Call Trump a Nazi Gets Blown Up by One Tweet .

ODD THAT A PARTY KNOWING NO BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IS LADEN WITH MEMBERS WHO RECOGNIZE NO BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND OTHER PERSONS’ PRIVATES:  Fear and loathing among Labour’s prowling predators.

ASK NOT WHOM THEY WANT TO SILENCE. IT’S ALL OF US:  EU Book Sales and “Disinformation Prevention:” The EU Digital Services Act.

LET’S DO THAT, YES?  Ways and Means Moves to Revoke Tax Exempt Status for Pro-Terrorism Groups.

BECAUSE THEY LIE WITH EVERY TOOTH IN THEIR MOUTHS:  Why distrust in our institutions is sanity and trust is crazy.

STUPID GOVERNMENT TRICKS AGAIN:  FAA administrator claims SpaceX wasn’t following regulations; SpaceX says that’s false.

A FRIEND SENDS A PREDICTION: “Wild guess, we’re due for a fake assassination attempt on Kamala they’ll blame on Trumpy rhetoric. Dominant storyline the next 6 weeks.”

Yep. Got rid of the Trump assassination attempts in something closer to 6 hours, but this will be different. And probably racist, notwithstanding that Janet Jackson says Kamala isn’t black.

OPEN THREAD: Carry on.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: ‘共产主义是最好的! 好好好!’ Says Tim Walz In Eloquent Rebuttal Of Alleged Ties To China.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s cancellation of VIPER cedes leadership in lunar exploration.

ACE OF SPADES: David Sacks, Elon Musk: Democrats Are Programming Their Lunatics to Kill Trump.

David Sacks points out that Ryan Routh, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump, has tweets that sound exactly like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the corporate media.

“Let’s look at the rhetoric that Ryan Routh was literally quoting on his X. He was saying that Trump was an existential threat to democracy. He was quoting what Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the mainstream media have been saying chapter and verse. If you want to ascribe motivation there, where did Routh get these ideas?”

“They’ve been endlessly amplified by the mainstream media, and it’s not like a one-off comment. It’s been the central narrative for the last several years that somehow Trump represents this existential threat to democracy, and one way or another, that threat must be eliminated. Ryan Routh simply took literally what the mainstream media has been saying.”

“When you call the guy Hitler for years and again, you create billions of impressions around that, and it’s not like a one-off statement, but it’s something that is drummed into the public over and over again. It seems like to me you are asking for trouble.”

Related: Trump’s Would-Be Assassin’s Explanation. “The man who intended to murder former President Donald Trump on Sept. 18 has explained in his own words why he wanted to do it. The words aren’t only his, though — they’re also the slogans and cliches of Trump’s Democratic opponents, virtually verbatim.”

OLD AND BUSTED: Digital Thespians.

The New Hotness? Digital journalists! Zombie Journalism — British Newspaper Rumored to Be Bringing Back Dead Art Critic in AI Form.

One of the biggest debates raging on the artificial intelligence front — especially in the entertainment industry — is about the use of AI to keep people “alive” long after they’ve left this mortal coil. A once-proud London newspaper organization is rumored to be planning to put one of its most prominent, but deceased, writers back to work.

Deadline:

EXCLUSIVE: He was one of the most feared and revered British art critics of his generation — and now, nearly a decade after his death, Brian Sewell could be about to wield his pen once more.

Deadline understands that London’s historic Evening Standard newspaper has been making plans to revive its former writer using artificial intelligence.

Two sources said AI Sewell has been assigned to review The National Gallery’s new Vincent van Gogh exhibition, titled Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers.

There is something either insidious or hilarious about having art critiqued by soulless artificial intelligence. Then again, many (most?) artists and entertainers would say that living, breathing critics don’t have souls either.

I’d be curious to see how an AI journobot programmed with the leitmotifs of a critic who passed on a decade ago would respond to today’s ever-so-woke art world.

In the world of film criticism, Bosley Crowther was The Man at the New York Times for decades, until he was put out to pasture because he hated 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde with a white-hot passion, and was suddenly seen by the paper’s core leftist audience as an ancient reactionary. Speaking of the latter, note this from further into the Deadline article that Stephen Kruiser quoted above:

Sewell, who died in 2015 at the age of 84, worked for the Standard for more than 30 years and was renowned for his biting critiques.

Known as Britain’s poshest art critic, he described a Damien Hirst exhibition as “detestable” and said Banksy should have been “put down at birth.” He once said there has “never been a first-rank woman artist” and “only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.”

C’mon Evening Standard, make this happen – and then program an AI letters to the editor reader; both will have plenty of fun dealing with exploding British crania!

RFK AND NUZZI: A Bunny Short of Fatal Attraction?

Did Robert Kennedy Jr return to his philandering ways? Did an ambitious reporter set him up? Or was this a mutual ‘Fatal Attraction’ scenario stopped short of the boiling bunny?

Better question: Which entertainment platform will make the inevitable TV movie — Hallmark or Cinemax?

Unlike the original Fatal Attraction, given that it’s RFK Jr. we’re talking about, he could well be the one boiling the bunny in this relationship.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Slower airplanes ‘could cut fuel waste.’

After hours cooped up on a flight, most passengers are more than ready to be back on the tarmac. But they may soon be on board even longer thanks to a report by scientists at the University of Cambridge, which has recommended that planes should fly slower to burn less fuel and reduce emissions.

The report said that if aircraft flew 15 per cent slower, fuel burn would reduce by 5 to 7 per cent. This would add 50 minutes to a flight from London to New York, which is at present about seven hours.

The report concedes that “one drawback of reducing speed is the potential negative impact on airline productivity and passenger acceptance, especially for longer flights”, but says that flying slower is one of three “bold measures” the aviation industry could adopt to dramatically reduce fuel burn.

Evergreen: Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse.

YES, MUCH MORE: MSNBC Columnists Wants More Gun Talk From Kamala. “I absolutely agree with [Alexander] Nazaryan that Harris should be talking more about guns, even if we have very different reasons for wanting to hear more from the candidate on the issue.”