MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY IS ON THE CHARLOTTE STABBING: From Rabble-Rousing to Rabble-Snoozing: Journalists do whatever the narrative requires at the moment, but does it still work?
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 8, 2025
BRIAN WANG: All Multi-year Bets Payoff When Tesla Unboxed Cybercabs Are Made in 100-200 Days. “$100 billion of dedicated effort over nearly a decade which Tesla did while generating $50+ billion in profit.”
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Ultrasound helmet enables deep brain stimulation in people without surgery.
UNITARY EXECUTIVE NEWS: “The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission despite a federal law.”
The fact that NBC News referred to the fired commissioners as “Democratic commissioners” gives away the game. According to Humphrey’s Executor, the idea was that “The commission is to be nonpartisan; and it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality.” And “It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law.”
Who even remembers to pretend that was supposed to be the idea these days?!
Not the press, who regard Democratic monopolies as inherently “nonpartisan.”
IT’S COME TO THIS:
I guess “people shouldn’t be murdered on public transit” is now a MAGA position. https://t.co/BNodegr6FQ
— Kane 謝凱堯 (@kane) September 8, 2025
Related thoughts here.
BRITAIN IS A WOKE SELF PARODY.
The new Banksy unveiled an hour ago outside the Royal Courts of Justice has been covered up.
The efforts haven’t stopped people coming along to have a look. #Banksy pic.twitter.com/7rpqznGjtu
— Claire Boad (@ClaireBoad) September 8, 2025
Well 1 hour after the new banksy was revealed that was mocking the courts for censoring people, the courts censored it by covering it up…
Proving his point… pic.twitter.com/aGRZR4GTBx
— Grifty (@TheGriftReport) September 8, 2025
The Western ruling class really has descended into utter garbage.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Substance use during pregnancy can harm a fetus, experts warn.
SCIENCE: Federal government pulls report linking alcohol use to cancer risks.
There was a lot of cherry picking going on, I believe. More here and here.
IF ONLY IT WERE A JOKE.
Old joke: two social workers walking down the road come across a man who has clearly been viciously assaulted: he is bruised, bleeding, and lying unconscious in a ditch. One of the social workers looks at the other and says: "We have to find whoever did this. He needs help!" https://t.co/rE8R3OZiKH
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) September 8, 2025
Related:
Preposterous statement from the @NC_Governor. The problem isn't that cops didn't arrest the guy. He was arrested over two dozen times! The problem is that liberal prosecutors, judges, and legislators like you refused to keep him locked up. https://t.co/ISP8zOcCEm
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) September 8, 2025
WEIGHING IN:
TRUMP ON IRYNA ZARUTSKA: “When you have horrible kiIIings, you have to take horrible actions.”
Democrat cities have been crime ridden for decades… and it’s time to fix that now.pic.twitter.com/JHlSyTsaca
— 🌋🌋 Deep₿lueCrypto 🌋🌋 (@DeepBlueCrypto) September 8, 2025
Related:
This incident really does combine all the kryptonite elements into one: the city hasn't had an (R) mayor in sixteen years, currently has a murder and assault rate much higher than the national average, the perpetrator is a black American male with a history of mental illness and… https://t.co/uSGYTsjIHn
— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) September 8, 2025
#WINNING:
🚨 In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court pauses a lower court ruling that had prohibited the Trump administration from conducting roving immigration arrests across Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/s1KMwyZW2D
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 8, 2025
LOL:
Washington Post is not much better. pic.twitter.com/xveVihViyu
— Cornell77 (@BlindJoeDef) September 8, 2025
THIS MIGHT BE GOOD, BUT MIGHT BE A LEFTY TROJAN HORSE: At 6 colleges, admissions now consider how students discuss divisive topics.
I don’t know which, but past experience tells me how to bet.
I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN “FREE SPEECH” WAS CODED AS RIGHT WING BECAUSE CAMPUS AUTHORITIES KNEW WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE SAYING: University of Pittsburgh must reinstate SJP chapter after federal judge rules free speech was violated.
HE’LL BE MISSED: Paul Caron: My Last TaxProf Blog Post. “I have been puzzling over when would be the right time to stop. Typepad, the platform on which TaxProf Blog is hosted, made the decision for me when it announced on August 27th that it will discontinue all blogs effective September 30th. At this stage in my life, I am not interested in starting anew on a different platform. I hope to find another home for the massive content of my 55,780 TaxProf Blog posts. If I do, I will post the link on this post before September 30th and notify the subscribers to my tax and legal education email lists.”
That stinks. But I imagine after 21 years — I’ve been doing this for over 24 — it’s something of a relief, too. Anyway, thanks, Paul, for the great contribution you’ve made for all these years. You’ve done a lot for a lot of people, and not just in the tax world.
“PROSECUTORS KEPT TURNING THIS GUY LOOSE.” The Unspeakable Evil Progressives Have Unleashed Strikes in Charlotte.
“Progressives are always with big compassion for the guy with the knife.”
More on that silence here.
Flashback:
We learned during the JournoList scandal that yes actually there are hundreds of journalists all in a group chat agreeing not to report on scandals that make their own side look bad, like the Reverend Wright Obama scandal https://t.co/ke1Lad9F3n pic.twitter.com/XwZKKLoA7Y
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 8, 2025
THIS WILL GO WELL: In New York City, It’s Class Warfare. If You Own Anything, Mamdani Wants to Take It.
Well, it’ll go well for some people!
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Palm Beach realtor of the year… https://t.co/jJXavKoOqE
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) September 7, 2025
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
When somebody tells you they want to “address the root causes of crime”, they’re saying they want to give a bunch of taxpayer money to a tax exempt entity run by one of their friends that does nothing to actually reduce crime.
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 7, 2025
DAVID MASTIO: Dismal new job numbers might be a sign of Trump’s successes, not failures.
So far under Trump, federal government employment is down 97,000 jobs. It was down 15,000 jobs just in August and it is going to keep going down as those who have already been fired, but are still getting severances, still count as employed. State government employment in August was down 13,000 too, which may reflect cuts to state government grants. And those numbers come as parts of the federal government that Trump likes, such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement are on unprecedented hiring sprees.
The Trump administration also has cut tens of billions of dollars (maybe hundreds of billions) in nonprofit grants, on which the government spends a fortune. The BLS doesn’t report monthly numbers in the nonprofit sector, but you can expect that these cuts are having a big impact in the government-adjacent parts of the economy. One clue in the data is that “Religious, grant-making, civic, professional and similar organizations” employment fell 3,000 in August. In recent months, the federal government has rounded up tens of thousands of often-employed undocumented immigrants all over the country in industries from construction and agriculture to transportation and manufacturing. That’s a net negative for job growth too. Employment among Hispanics was down 15,000 jobs in August according to the new BLS data. . . .
I am no fan of Trump’s mercantilist economic policies, but any analysis of these job numbers has to consider how much of this is a sign of MAGA success, not economic disaster.
Millei’s Argentina entered a short, sharp recession when his policies were enacted before roaring back.
Related: Joel Kotkin: Don’t judge Trump’s economic agenda on one jobs report.
September 7, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.