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August 28, 2025
JAMES LILEKS: “Absolute evil. I got a text from sister-in-law: ‘Mass shooting at Annunciation.’ It’s the church and school on 54th, across the creek from our place, a mere block away from her house. I went outside and heard every siren in the world converging on our neighborhood:”
At 11 I took Birch for a walk. We crossed the creek and headed up to the area. Everyone walking along has headphones on and everyone is looking down. Get to Nicollet; pass the fire station. Doors open, trucks back in. Nod to the fireman. He nods back. Unspoken communal acknowledgement. Turn on 54th, heading towards the church, run into a neighbor on this bike. Nothing to say but we say it all anyway. I turn to head back, and meet another neighbor, and we go through the same ritual. How’d you hear? He’d heard the shots, then went to Nextdoor, where there was a report on the gunshots a literal minute after he’d heard it. We nod and go our different ways. I turn south to see if I can get to sister-in-law’s house, but halfway up the block, half a block from the scene, Birch stops. Digs in. Tenses. Won’t advance. Will not go another inch.
Agreed, Birch. Back we go.
Read the whole thing.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Socialism: A Cataclysmic Plague on Civilization.
VICTORIA TAFT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD: As Long as We’re Talking About Trans Killers, a Word About Portland’s Anti-ICE Trantifa Thugs.
YES:
If so many American leaders were praising, welcoming, and affirming ISIS, confused and desperate Americans would be joining ISIS. Now, they “transition.” When the trans-craze is over, the mentally ill will be drawn to some other movement preying on vulnerable Americans. https://t.co/tZUojqkIZv
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) August 28, 2025
INDULGING DELUSIONS WITH HORMONES AND SURGERY HAS NOT WORKED OUT AS PROMISED:
This is literally what the Minneapolis mass sh—ter of church children believed. In his manifesto, he has a page expressing some regret about transitioning (he was a minor), but that it was too late for him, and he was going to kill and die.
Death before detransition. https://t.co/euRYOI7kxy
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 28, 2025
And on cue:
It's not at all beside the point, if you've been paying any attention to the trans community's violent rhetoric. Nor is the possibility that giving young people cross sex hormones mentally unbalancing. https://t.co/7Sjf92YhmJ
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 28, 2025
It’s never the actor, it’s always the object.
KRUISER: Starve the Leftist Trolls of Oxygen and Leave Them Gasping for Relevance. “It’s easy to believe the worst of the loudmouth social media lefties. What we don’t need to be doing is giving these cretins a bigger audience, yet that’s what conservatives have been doing with the most vile leftist trolls for years.”
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NICE WORK, EVERYBODY:
We were assured that recession was imminent…
.@bloomberg: "The US economy expanded in the second quarter at a slightly faster pace than initially estimated on a pickup in business investment and an outsize boost from trade. Inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, which…
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 28, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russian space official: “We need to stop lying to ourselves” about health of industry.
In his message to the corporation’s thousands of employees, Maltsev said Energia is having difficulty paying wages and delivering the spacecraft and other products it is contracted to build.
“We need to stop lying to ourselves and others about the state of affairs, convincing ourselves and others that everything is fine with us,” he wrote. “The time demands decisive action from us—not to sit, but to fight for the enterprise. I suggest that everyone answer the question honestly: are you ready to work for the result and make a real contribution?”
Maltsev, who was appointed director general of Energia just three months ago, closed his dark missive by suggesting it will take a miracle to save the historic space corporation.
This is an extraordinary statement coming from a senior leader within Russia’s space industry. Although it is widely understood that Russia’s space program is in decline, the most common tactic among Russian officials is to bluster about past greatness and talk about all the new programs that are under development.
What a sad state of affairs for the country that put the first satellite and the first man into space.
More: “In reality, the Russian space program is chronically underfunded, and the war against Ukraine has only accelerated the depletion of talent and resources. Russia cannot afford new spacecraft and rockets when it needs munitions and men for the front lines.”
Putin can have a space program, or he can keep throwing away hundreds of thousands of lives for minimal gains in Ukraine.
He seems to prefer the latter, so that’s what he’ll get.
BILLY JOEL’S “MIAMI 2017” WAS ONLY A FEW YEARS AHEAD OF THE CURVE: If New Yorkers Want to Know What the City Will Be Like When Mamdani Is Mayor, Just Look at Chicago.
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A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABIITY: Wuhan Ph.D. student pleads no contest to smuggling roundworm bio‑material to Michigan lab.
WHAT IS A WOMAN? Sorority wins case against Wyoming sisters who sued after man admitted to sisterhood as judge refuses to define ‘woman.’
US District Judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit filed by former and current members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at the University of Wyoming, which argued that the organization violated its bylaws by admitting a trans-identifying male as a member of the female-only sorority.
Judge Johnson ruled on August 22 that the sorority has the autonomy to dictate how it wants to define the word “woman,” arguing that the Courts should not interfere with the internal governance of private organizations. “Having considered the issues presented (again), we find that the majority of the claims must be dismissed on the grounds that this Court still may not interfere with [the sorority’s] contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws,” Judge Johnson wrote in the final ruling, per Wyoming Public Radio.
The complaint was previously dismissed by Judge Johnson in August 2023, but without prejudice, allowing the sorority members to re-file the suit. The plaintiffs argued in the second filing that President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order on “Defending women from gender ideology” defines the word “female” as a “person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.”
“We dismissed that complaint without prejudice on the grounds that the sorority was free, as a private organization, to define the word ‘woman’ in its bylaws however it wanted,” Johnson wrote in an order, referring to the initial lawsuit, “and therefore the sorority was not contractually obligated to reject transwomen members.”
Ladies, feel free to reject Kappa Kappa Gamma.
JESSE WATTERS: This Truth Bomb on Trans Violence Is a Must Watch.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Gin Up Hate and Let Their Victim Groups Do Their Dirty Work. “Here in the 21st century, an unclear motive in these tragedies is code for ‘The conservatives’ suspicions are correct but we refuse to admit that they’re right AGAIN.’ It also means that the killer was an anointed member of one of the Democrats’ pet victim groups.”
WELL, BYE:
The fewer public health professionals that we have serving in Government who think it’s a great idea to pose in a pentagram harness for a magazine cover, the better.
BYE! https://t.co/lCDb73o7sr pic.twitter.com/3glKWqAqw3
— Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) August 28, 2025
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!
John Bolton is in deep trouble, and everyone who white-knighted for Bolton after defending the insane Mar-a-Lago raid is going to look especially craven and corrupt as more details emerge. pic.twitter.com/0O8qt2btXN
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 27, 2025
HARRY ENTEN: The Democratic brand is in about as good a position as the Cracker Barrel rebrand. Bad, bad, bad.
What we’re talking here in terms of big party registration changes in the key swing states, let’s look at four key swing states that do keep track of registration by party. Look, the Republican Party is in their best position at this point in the cycle since at least 2005, in all four of these key battleground states.
How about Arizona, Nevada? Republicans haven’t done this well since 2005. Oh my goodness gracious, at this point in a cycle.
North Carolina, I couldn’t find a point at which Republicans were doing better at this point in the cycle. It’s at least this century, probably goes way back to the last century.
Pennsylvania, very similar. Republicans are doing better at this point than any time this century, as far as I could find.
Now, what types of gains are we talking about here for the Republican Party? Well, let’s compare it to this point during their first Trump administration, all the way back in 2017.
Look at this: Republican Party gains in party registration compared to this point back in 2017, during the Trump first administration. Arizona, you got a Republican gain of three points. How about Nevada? Up the hill we go, even though we’re sticking in the southwest, again, a six-point gain. How about again we come to the East Coast, North Carolina, a gain of eight points for the Republicans. And then the Keystone State in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, again we’re talking about a gain of eight points.
My goodness gracious, for Republicans, they are converting old former Democrats to their side of the ledger, as well as picking up new voters, registering new voters, and it absolutely paid off for them back in that 2024 election.
Don’t get cocky, because Democrat energy has them outperforming their numbers in off-year elections.
ICYMI: Dank Gavin Just Declared Victory Over Cracker Barrel. “It seems like only earlier this week [it was only earlier this week, Steve —Editor] that I had to apologize for breaking last week’s promise not to write about California Gov. Gavin Newsom until he stopped with his pathetic attempts at faux-Trump attention-whoring on the Social Media App Formerly Known as Twitter (SMAFKAT). In the immortal words of Whitesnake: Here I go again.”
I KNOW THAT, AND I HOPE THE JEWS KEEP KICKING YOUR ASS: ‘We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Zionism,’ Says Palestinian Activist Hailed in Mainstream Media Reports As ‘Hero’ ‘We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Zionism,’ Says Palestinian Activist Hailed in Mainstream Media Reports As ‘Hero.’