NEWS YOU CAN USE:  Raconteur Press Author Roundup. Shenanigans, mischief, and more!

IT HAS FOR A WHILE:  Junk science now dominates the reporting of the propaganda press.

THE BOURGEOISIE OWN PROPERTY AND ARE THEREFORE UNIQUE PREY TO LEFT-WING BUDGET GRABS:  Reeves declares war on homeowners.

“LET’S YOU AND HIM FIGHT” WAS A CATCH PHRASE OF POPEYE SIDEMAN J. WELLINGTON WIMPY – MEANING ANTIFA AS JUST A BUNCH OF WIMPS:  Antifa Tried to Incite Violence Between Black and Jewish Neighbors – Watch How Their Plan Backfired.

I’VE GOT A SUGGESTION BUT THIS IS A FAMILY BLOG:  So where will all the asylum seekers go?

HMMMM … THAT COULD BE ALMOST ANYTHING:  Here’s What a DHS Officer Said to a White Lib That Triggered a Total Meltdown.

YES: The KGB’s Greatest Trick: How Soviet Spies Invented Liberation Theology to Spread Marxism.

YEP. THEY’RE STUCK IN THE CRASHING SYSTEM THEY CREATED:  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

THE IPCC GOES FEELZ OVER SCIENCE:  A Takeover of the IPCC.  The IPCC’s longstanding framework for detection and attribution looks DOA in AR7.

WELL, YES, AND YET:  Keep Call Centers in America Act of 2025 Causes Disturbance on Philippines Information Technology and Business Process Sector.

YES:  We get what we tolerate: Store Closures Due to Theft.

NO SH*T SHERLOCK:   State Department Pausing Visas for Commercial Truck Drivers.

NEWS WE ALL ALREADY KNEW:  Fauci and His Cronies Accused of Intel Cover-Up Regarding Covid’s Wuhan Origins.

TIME TO REALITY CHECK:   Winning Is A Possibility.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

GOOD: Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will ‘move aside’ from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars.

THAT’S SAYING A LOT, SINCE EVERYTHING IN AUSTRALIA IS TRYING TO KILL YOU. Deadliest Animal in Australia Revealed, And It’s a Big Surprise.

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WE SAY “DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH.” But did they really have those kinds of administrative skills? The Forgotten Creatures That Ruled Before the Great Dying.

MARY KATHARINE HAM: Va. Gubernatorial Race Candidate Abigail Spanberger Refuses To Side With Common Sense.

It’s 2025. Surely Democrats learned to get on the right side of these issues. But for Democrats with national aspirations, the Be Normal Challenge remains very challenging.

Enter former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, who has led Republican Lt. Gov Winsome Sears by double digits throughout the year. She has been hailed as part of the great moderate hope for Democrats in the vibe shift after 2024. She is a mom who represented a swing district, and a former CIA agent. The Atlantic called her part of the Democrats’ “Patriotic Vanguard,” while the Washington Post hailed her “centrist” credentials along with a handful of other up-and-coming Democrats, whose claims rest mostly on the fact that they don’t seem allergic to the American flag.

But how normal is the Great Normie Hope in Virginia? Spanberger has said nothing about the boys suspended in Loudoun County. She has said nothing about five Northern Virginia school districts defying both Executive Orders and Virginia civil rights rules by “allow[ing] students of the opposite sex access to intimate sex-separated facilities and allow[ing] students of the opposite sex to participate in sex-separated sports.” Not just a culture-war flare-up, this is a legal issue she will have to contend with as governor, as the Trump Department of Justice will seek to pull funding for school districts that violate its Title IX rules.

It’s also not an issue that should require bravery, certainly not from an allegedly centrist leader. When polled, 70-90 percent of Americans agree that trans-identifying males should not compete in women’s sports leagues. The locker room question is less polled, but similarly lopsided.

Local ABC reporter Nick Minock asked Spanberger about locker room and sports policies, but neither she nor the campaign could muster more than this non-sequitur statement:

“Abigail is a mom of three kids in Virginia public schools — the safety of Virginia’s kids is Abigail’s top priority, and she believes that parents have the right to make decisions about what is best for their children,” said Spanberger.

We need a complete and total shutdown of the Democratic Party in Virginia until we can figure out just what the hell is going on there:

We are well into the 21st century, and Abigail Spanberger’s Democrat Party can’t shake its racist roots. pic.twitter.com/jFqRFxNtOw

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 22, 2025

BRING BACK THE SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER: Three Great Historic Events That Need Their Own Movie.

Remember when one of the things you looked forward to every summer was the return of the summer blockbuster movies?

We’ve seen some great summer blockbuster films, from the “Star Wars” original releases to “Indiana Jones,” “Jurassic Park,” “The Terminator,” and many more. Personally, though, I like depictions of great moments in history. Many of them, like the 2000 Roland Emmerich/Mel Gibson film “The Patriot,” were heavily fictionalized, but that doesn’t make them less enjoyable. But while I do enjoy films like Zack Snyder’s “300” – a guilty pleasure, I admit – I generally like my historical films to be a little more true to life, like the 1962 film, “The 300 Spartans.”

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WHY WE DRINK: Low daily fluid intake linked to higher stress hormone response in adults.

YES: EPA Proposes Deregulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Vehicles: Does It Make Sense?

HOW IT STARTED: Paul Krugman On Election Night 2016: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

How it’s going: Dow Hits Record Highs, Small Caps Soar On Powell’s Shift: What’s Moving Markets Friday?