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BRIAN WANG: How Everything Changes After SpaceX Starship Flight 10. “SpaceX Starship flight 10 proved that Starship can fly to orbit and deliver payload. This makes Starship lower than even partially reusable Falcon 9 for cost to space. But that is just the start. Flight 10 shows the mass deployment of Starlink version 3 satellites will start happening in months. It also means that regular booster and starship reuse is very near as well. The big SpaceX gamble on the huge Starship and full reusability and crazy catches of giant rockets will pay off. In the history books, SpaceX Starship flight 10 will be where it was proved that everything about Starship was going to work.”

I’m already looking forward to v.3, even though there will undoubtedly be more bumps on the road.

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HAHA: Last Japanese Soldier on Island Warns Against Extremist Claims That War is Over.

SO SINCE USAID IS GONE I GUESS THIS IS A LEGIT SPONTANEOUS COLOR REVOLUTION: UK Protests Gain Steam.

HAHAHA. EVERYTHING IS AWFUL: Healing Ozone Layer Could Trigger 40% More Global Warming.

RIP: Lee Roy Jordan, Cowboys legend and Super Bowl champ, dead at 84.

THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED.

I wear my heart on my sleeve

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— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 29, 2025

And it’s spreading:

Aussie flags are showing up everywhere across Australia, from flagpoles to the street- like these examples sent in by followers 🇦🇺💪 Operation Raise The Flag Australia is only just beginning! Get involved today by raising the flag at your home, work and town! pic.twitter.com/QWdEU3SHQ1

— Raise The Flag Australia (@raisetheflagaus) August 30, 2025

The Anglosphere’s ruling class may have been compromised, but the populace has not.

SPACE: Starship’s Breakthrough Flight, Lunar Nuclear Race, and AI Sun Twin Signal New Space Era.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Matt Mahan, San Jose’s mayor, knocks Gov. Gavin Newsom for choosing online antics over sensible policies: How about less time breaking the Internet and more time fixing California?

Gov. Newsom’s supporters say he is “breaking the internet” and “owning” Trump. But the governor, and every elected official and leader, also need to own up to the truth. And the truth is that California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation, at 5.5%, and nearly half the nation’s unsheltered homeless people. We have the highest energy and housing costs in the continental United States, and, largely because of these high costs, the highest effective poverty rate in the nation.

And now let me give you the really bad news.

These problems are even less likely to be addressed today because of the terribly misaligned incentives being baked into our politics. As Gov. Newsom’s surge in recent polls demonstrates, politicians are being rewarded for resisting, even when such resistance moves beyond taking on the excesses and abuses of the Trump administration and begins disparaging businesses merely for expressing concerns over very real problems of crime, homelessness, and overregulation.

I was elected mayor of San Jose in 2022 after offering a simple plan for commonsense change: faster and cheaper solutions to homelessness, an increase in police hiring, and tying our elected officials’ pay to performance. These seemed like pretty radical ideas to some — although not to the majority of San Joseans demanding action.

By tuning out the political noise and focusing on the basic issues that residents care about the most, San Jose has nearly completed over 2,000 new safe and decent shelter units for homeless people in less than two years — and we are shrinking our unsheltered homeless population. We are clearing encampments and requiring that people come indoors if there is shelter available. And, under our new “Responsibility to Shelter” ordinance, if someone repeatedly refuses shelter when shelter is available, they could be charged with trespassing.

Crime is going down — in part because we helped convince Californians to embrace Proposition 36 to end a cycle of theft without consequence, sending the message that serious criminal activity, like repeated retail thefts, would carry consequences.

But we are just one city. We, and every California city, would be doing better if Sacramento was doing more. Instead of spending so much energy attacking his opponents, the governor and his team should be addressing the high cost of energy, helping hard-pressed families make ends meet and keeping them and their employers from fleeing our state. They should be addressing concerns over public safety by fully implementing the will of the voters on Proposition 36 by building enough treatment beds to ensure it doesn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy for the opposition.

Newsom will solve no problem before its time: Gavin Newsom’s 10-year plan to end San Francisco homelessness marks 20-year anniversary.

INSUBORDINATION: Trump officials fire EPA employees for signing dissent letter.

HE DOESN’T HAVE TO KNOW ANYTHING HE JUST HAS TO FOLLOW THE SCRIPT, WHICH DOESN’T HAVE TO MAKE SENSE:

I realize Cenk is basically an idiot who just gives dumb takes on issues he knows nothing about, but the Prime Minister of the recognized government of Yemen (Salem Saleh bin Braik) is fine. Israel has never targeted him.

Israel took out the leadership of the Houthi rebel… https://t.co/ik0FiziC2s

— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 30, 2025

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ED MORRISSEY: Of Course: Media Freaks Out Over Normal Secret Service Provision for Kamala.

So the actual story is that the Biden administration gave Harris a stealth extension of taxpayer-funded benefits to which she was not entitled. If Congress wants to extend those benefits for former VPs, then let Congress propose and pass those into statute as amendments to the pension system for former presidents and VPs. Otherwise, Harris is no longer a public servant, and she can use her own resources for personal protection rather than sponge off the taxpayers. Trump simply canceled the illegitimate extension and restored the normal post-office benefit limitations to which all VPs are subject.

The Protection Racket Media clearly wants to push another narrative. They want to paint Trump as a revenge-driven authoritarian using his authority to punish his political opponents, oddly enough after spending four years missing the real authoritarians in the White House actually doing that to Trump and his allies. If they wanted to do their jobs as reporters, they’d be asking questions as to why Biden — or whoever ran the autopen — expanded those benefits in the first place. The PRM’s mission isn’t to report as much as it is to amplify progressive-elite propaganda messaging. And that’s exactly what they attempted this morning. Again.

Still though, think of the myriad potential dangers for secret agent Double Oh Kackle:

GOOD: Scientists move toward developing vaccine against pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus.

VDH: Europe in the Balance?

Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party’s open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic “political refugee” status.

Greek officials, also swamped by illegal immigration, now cite President Donald Trump’s secure border policies as new models for their own.

The majority of European immigrants now come from majority-Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet many arrivals seem angrier at their newfound liberal hosts than at the dictatorships they fled back home.

Europe’s immigration policies will not work in a multi-ethnic democracy.

Too many immigrants are arriving too quickly, without sufficient diversity, language fluency, skills, or familiarity with the customs and culture of their host nations. They often enter with separatist religious and cultural values antithetical to the very place they seek refuge.

Yet, there is no European plan of civic education to assimilate immigrants and teach them the rules, laws, and culture of their hosts.

Why would there be, when European leftist elites wish to toss Europe’s past down the memory hole?

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● Acclaimed BBC series Civilisation is given a warning over outdated attitudes.