NORM MACDONALD COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Stop villainizing trans people, Democrat mayor says after school shooting.

The Mayor of Minneapolis told people to stop “villainising our trans community” after gunman Robin Westman sprayed bullets at primary school children.

Two children, aged eight and 10, were killed after the gunman, who is trans, stormed Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota on Wednesday.

Armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol, Westman “sprayed” dozens of rounds of bullets through the stained glass windows of the school’s adjacent church.

The 23-year-old changed his name by deed poll in 2019 from Robert to Robin in documents seen by The Telegraph.

Speaking at a press conference following the attack, Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis mayor, said those attacking transgender people had “lost their sense of common humanity”.

“I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community,” Mr Frey told reporters.

“Anybody who is using this … as an opportunity to villainise our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.”

Classical allusion in headline:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): A friend texts: “Weird how they flip from one incident to another from blaming the gun, to blaming Trump, to concern for trans. The only consistency or logic in the narrative is, it has to serve the narrative.”

The issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.

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YES: US states should be vigilant about preventing Chinese land purchases close to military installations.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is preparing for conflict with the United States and learning from ongoing wars that are redefining how future battles may unfold. A critical lesson emerging from today’s conflicts is that assets positioned behind enemy lines in peacetime can be activated with devastating effect in wartime.

Israel’s Operation Rising Lion succeeded in decimating Iranian military infrastructure and eliminating senior military leaders not only through superior platforms, munitions, and intelligence, but also through low-cost, unmanned systems launched from within Iran itself. Similarly, in Operation Spider’s Web, Ukraine struck at the heart of Russian airpower using covertly deployed UAVs pre-positioned in Russia, damaging or destroying at least 20 strategic aircraft across five oblasts.

China is undoubtedly studying these operations, recognizing that the ability to operate from within US borders through surveillance, sabotage, or pre-placed systems could prove decisive in a future conflict. These examples should serve as a wake-up call for American policymakers: the Chinese Communist Party’s acquisition of US farmland, including near sensitive military installations, is not merely an economic concern but a strategic threat.

What was it Lenin said about capitalists selling him rope?

THIS. IS. CNN. Annals of Media Misinformation: Imagine All the Other Garbage CNN is Feeding its Remaining Viewers.

WATCH: CNN's Evan Perez LIES about how semi-automatic rifles work.

Perez says that a semi-automatic rifle can "shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull."

That is factually inaccurate. A semi-automatic rifle fires one bullet per pull of the trigger.

False anti-gun fear… pic.twitter.com/W6VWnOEhoh

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 27, 2025

“This is an automatic transmission. It can drive a car with no human driver at all.”

JFC, people. This isn’t just stupidly wrong, it’s criminally stupidly wrong. Then again, he was honored by the White House Correspondents Association, so . . .

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Intellectuals Are Upset About Cracker Barrel Controversy.

WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF MINNESOTA UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE:

It was always a threat. https://t.co/7TfAlT77c3

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 27, 2025

you will never get me to drink the tap water in Minnesota pic.twitter.com/INGIZziFsu

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) August 27, 2025

JOHN LUCAS ON THE DEMOCRATS AND THE NEW RULES THEY CREATED: “Cutting Down the Law to Get at the Devil,” Redux. Can the perpetrators of the persecution by lawfare stand in the winds that will blow now?

YOUNG HERO: Boy Says Friend Saved Him During School Shooting.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S PRETTY MUCH MEANT TO: DEI Undermines Merit, Sows Division, Weakens Companies.

OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starship Mars rocket met ‘every major objective’ on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says.

IT’S TIME: California Republican proposes ‘two-state solution’ amid Newsom’s redistricting push. “Whether you are from the North State, Central Valley, or the Inland empire, life has become harder and completely unaffordable. We have been overlooked for far too long, and now they are trying to rip away what little representation we have left.”

I’ve written about this, and how it might happen.

IT’S A BIG DEAL WHEN THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY IS ADMITTING THIS: How Florida Universities Became World-Class.

In the Washington Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, seven Florida universities rank in the top 100 (out of more than 1,400 schools). These include Florida International University (number eight), University of Central Florida (17), and New College (25), all of them public institutions. Four Florida state universities also make the Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Research ranking, including the University of Florida (number 27) and Florida State (76). And 10 of the top 20 colleges on the Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck ranking for the Southeast are in Florida.

Why do so many Florida universities do so well on the magazine’s rankings? Part of it is that Florida is a populous state with lots of universities. But Michigan and Pennsylvania have about the same combined population as Florida (23 million). Yet only two Pennsylvania colleges, both private—Haverford (19) and Swarthmore (37)—make the top 100 in the Monthly’s Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, and none from Michigan do.

Of course, they’re quick to inform us that it has absolutely nothing to do with Ron DeSantis.

I’VE BEEN ARGUING THIS FOR A WHILE:

The case is building for eliminating the District Court for DC, and making it part of the District of Maryland.

You cannot have a District Court that has a juror pool so extremely partisan that objective evidence is simply disregarded based on politics. https://t.co/UiaGZovbNQ

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 27, 2025

Flashback.

OUT: TRUMP’S INVESTIGATION OF BOLTON IS A POLITICAL PERSECUTION.

IN: NYT: John Bolton Inquiry Eyes Emails Obtained by Foreign Government. It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.

THE NYT AND RE-LITIGATING THE CHRISTAKIS-YALE AFFAIR: It was never about halloween costumes, but rather about admin overreach and the infantilizing of adult college students.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAY SAILI– ‘Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! The boat is cut in half.’

CIVICS REVOLUTION: Conservatives Are Reviving Traditional Education With a Modern Twist.

The Philadelphia-based Jack Miller Center and other civics advocates have settled on a synthesis of both perspectives, avoiding the extremes of cynicism and nostalgia that reduce the nation’s history to tropes and caricatures. The center’s eponymous founder committed his fortune from the office supply business to “solving the national crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history.” The center aims to de-escalate the subject by bypassing interpretive textbooks and online learning aids and going directly to the original documents – the Federalist Papers, presidential speeches and letters, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and much more.

Its K-12 teacher workshops include the types of readings and writers that were largely ignored in the stodgy civics instruction a generation ago: first lady Abigail Adams, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, the Slavery Provisions of the U.S. Constitution, pro-slavery advocate John Calhoun, poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, Nikole Hannah-Jones (the architect of the NYT’s 1619 Project), and Amanda Gorman, the African American poet who recited her verse, “This Hill We Climb,” at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration.

This viewpoint diversity reflects the Jack Miller Center’s philosophy that American identity is forged out of disagreement, and that understanding the nation’s history and development requires familiarity with the historical and literary documents written by the leading voices in those controversies, said Lucas Morel, professor of politics at Washington & Lee College in Virginia. He leads Jack Miller Center teacher seminars and serves on the organization’s board of directors.

“The founding in itself and the early American period – these were products of debate and discussion,” Morel said. “And we have found over time that the teachers find these programs so engaging precisely because the Jack Miller Center does not say, ‘These are the eight things you have to believe about the Declaration of Independence, and you have to write lesson plans that have these answers.’”

Read the whole thing.

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MAKE THEM PAY: NSSF Asks FTC to Disclose Extent to Which it Colluded With the Gun Control Industry to Limit Gun Makers’ Commercial Speech During Biden Years.

THEN THEY SHOOT THEMSELVES ANYWAY:

"If you don't give trans people hormones, they'll shoot themselves!"

Well, if you do give them hormones, they'll shoot young Christian children

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 27, 2025

SAY ANYTHING: Dank Gavin Just Declared Victory Over Cracker Barrel. “Whether or not Trump eats at Cracker Barrel, you know a major MAGA contingent does — and Trump’s post spoke to them, even though (obviously) Masino had her about-face ready to go first. If there’s a major Cracker Barrel contingent among Newsom voters, I’ll eat both the cracker and the barrel.”

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Chrysler 300 Rumored to Return: Could This Be Its Bold New Look?

“MY STUPID PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR THEM” WOULD BE QUITE THE TAKE, IF IT WEREN’T SO COMMON: Luis Guzmán: Latino Trump Voters Are ‘Ignorant.’

DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS ARE SCUM, EPISODE 4,224,378:

He immediately gets on the internet and blames Republicans for a shooting that occurred in a Democrat city, in a Democrat state, and was committed by person who became mentally ill because of the gender ideology that Democrats supports. https://t.co/di2QECeuiL

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025

Catholic children get murdered while attending Mass by a trans person and this loser Mayor's first instinct is to a) criticize peoples' prayers and b) demand they stop being mean to trans people

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025

If you look at WaPo's school shooting database and remove accidental discharges, gang violence, police shootings, etc., there have been four mass school shootings since 2023. Two of the perpetrators were transgender. 50%.

— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) August 27, 2025

“Oh, you were murdered by a left-wing trans person? Let me take a dump on your religious beliefs then.”

Just a total and complete scumbag. https://t.co/vEUVjauwy6

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 27, 2025