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LOCK UP ANY OFFENDERS: Virginia Secretary of Education Warns Universities To Prepare For Anti-Israel Protests Amid Reports Campus Disruptions ‘Will Be Even More Chaotic.’ And expel any misbehaving students, while suing non-students for damages caused by their disruption.

Protest is protected; vandalism and violence aren’t.

LOL, CNN. #JOURNALISM: CNN’s Brianna Keilar Lectures CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Respecting JD Vance’s Military Service.

What’s impressive is that J.D. Vance got her to do a 180 with a single tweet.

UNBURDENED BY THE LACK OF INTEREST:

🚨 Kamala Harris is using black curtains to cover up empty seats at her rallies

Why is she doing this pic.twitter.com/Za16Vn83HX

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 10, 2024

YOU CAN’T HATE THE MSM ENOUGH: Earlier today, the MSM repeated Hamas propaganda as fact, not bothering to note that “local health officials” in Gaz are Hamas. Here is CNN, just for example.

Besides repeating the casualty figures as presumptively accurate despite the source, CNN did not mention that the strike was at 5 AM, in the summer, on a Hamas HQ. And as happens so often, Hamas couldn’t keep the lie going, reducing the casualty count from over 90 to 40 within hours, and who knows if that is also exaggerated:

Meanwhile, Israel identified by name twenty wanted Hamas terrorists who were killed in the bombing.

UPDATE: Here’s a picture Palestinian sources are circulating purporting to show the victims of Israel’s strike. The women, children, and elderly victims the media was reporting based on “eyewitnesses” are conspicuous by their absence.

JEWISH LIVES MATTER?: A maniac shouting “Free Palestine” tried to stab a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn to death early Saturday morning. Crickets from the MSM.

SHE’S NEVER HAD AN ORIGINAL IDEA IN HER LIFE, SO WHY CHANGE NOW?

🚨 Breaking. Kamala Harris just stole Trumps " NO TAX on TIPS " Proposal

Everything about her is Fake! pic.twitter.com/eYRiT1Htnk

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 11, 2024

And to be fair, it’s worked pretty well for her.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Commerce Department preparing to turn on initial version of space traffic coordination service.

IMPORTANT HEALTH NEWS: Women who regularly have sex are likely to live longer, according to a nationally representative study in the United States. “Even when accounting for education, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, female participants who claimed to have sex less than 52 times in a year were three times more likely to die from any cause over the five-year study period.”

WELL SAID:

I've never been more grateful that our forefathers crossed the Delaware on Christmas to kill British law enforcers. https://t.co/nqkVcYe24N

— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) August 8, 2024

NEWS FROM THE AMERICA THAT STILL WORKS: SpaceX launches 21 satellites from Florida; another one set Sunday.

BAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Infectious diseases spike when kids return to school − here’s what you can do about it.

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: The UK descends into dystopian levels of censorship.

“Think before you post.”

That’s the chilling message that was just posted from social media accounts affiliated with the United Kingdom’s government. Amid the riots and civil unrest in the streets of Britain that were initially sparked by anti-immigration protesters, the posts warned citizens not directly involved in the uprisings that they too could face arrest even just for their speech.

“Content that incites violence or hatred isn’t just harmful — it can be illegal,” the Crown Prosecution Service tweeted. “The CPS takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met. Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences.”

These aren’t just idle threats, either.

Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions of England and Wales, warned that there are “dedicated police officers” tasked with “scouring social media” to “follow up with identification [and] arrests” when people “publish or distribute material which is insulting or abusive which is intended to or likely to start racial hatred.”

This censorious effort is coming from the top levels of government. In an interview with Sky News, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said social media is “not a law-free zone” and that he wanted to issue “a reminder to everyone that whether you’re directly involved or whether you’re remotely involved, you’re culpable, and you will be put before the courts if you’ve broken the law.”

The arrests have already begun.

George Orwell didn’t intend for 1984 to be a how-to guide.

UPDATE: America’s Newspaper of Record reports that the answer to England’s woes is actually quite simple: Elon Musk Buys The United Kingdom To Establish Free Speech There.

HMM:

Explosions and fires in Kursk (city) https://t.co/GahCIRtPGp

— Malcontent News (@MalcontentmentT) August 10, 2024

HAHA:

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MAYBE IT’S A BIG LIE, AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN:

Ironically all that the caring, inclusive and peace loving policies seem to have done is create poverty, racial and religious riots and war. What bad luck.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 7, 2024

RIP:

Super Sky Point to Juan Antonio “Chi-Chi”Rodriguez, whose signature unsheathing of his putter sword elevated his birdies to a goddamn swashbuckling art form. There will never be another quite like him. #RIP

pic.twitter.com/DJfJBai9kF

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 9, 2024

Although there was some debate in the news media as to the pronunciation of his name:

HAVE A BLAST: Celebrate National Shooting Sports Month.

GREAT MOMENTS IN ASTROTURF: Maine Gov’s Democrat Brother Admits ‘Republicans for Harris’ Organized by Harris Campaign.

IF HE’S BEEN ALIVE FOR THAT LONG, WE CAN JUST ASK HIM ABOUT IT! 135-million-year-old marine crocodile sheds light on Cretaceous life.

WOEING: Boeing Starliner astronauts might not return to Earth until next year, NASA says. “Boeing Starliner astronauts, stranded at the International Space Station after a weeklong test flight turned into a two-month stay due to thruster problems, may be forced to fly home on SpaceX in 2025, NASA has admitted. NASA updated reporters Wednesday at a news conference, which Boeing did not attend, on the timeline for crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. The astronauts have been in space for 63 days with no return date in sight.”

Martin Caidin, call your office.

UPDATE (From Ed): You too, Kamala!

Perhaps the astronauts could still be recovered even if forced to bailout into the cloud:

STRENGTH THROUGH JOY: Kamala rebrands as the ‘joy’ candidate.

Democratic strategists have repeatedly assured me that she will adopt whatever platform comes out of the Democratic National Convention, which certainly won’t help the perception that she is a manufactured candidate willing to do whatever it takes to seize power, but I digress. The clear indication we are getting from the early stages of the Harris-Walz campaign is that it is all about “vibes” and the idea that Harris is selling “joy.”

After all, what better way to rebrand a deeply unpopular vice president who, in focus groups put together by her own party, is said to have a laugh that sounds more like a cackle? Joy! “Kamala Harris used to worry about laughing,” the dutiful stenographers at the New York Times said. “Now joy is fueling her campaign.” The Washington Post similarly describes Harris-Walz as seizing “on a joyous message.” Walz even thanked his running mate for “bringing back the joy.”

At the Federalist, Elizabeth Stauffer writes, “Kamala Harris Can’t Articulate The Case For Voting For Her.” So as with “hope” and “change” in ’76 and 2008, the DNC-MSM have chosen their buzzword, and are now hoping to run out the clock on their opponents:

JUST BE SURE IT’S DUKE’S OR BAMA: Pass the mayo: Condiment could help improve fusion energy yields. Hellman’s is acceptable in a pinch.

“Pinch” in a fusion post. I crack myself up.