REPORT FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Minneapolis Dems: We Know Our Election Was Rigged But Let’s Keep The Results Anyway.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

NATE SILVER ON “BLUESKYISM:” “Demographics alone only go so far in explaining Blueskyism, however. It’s not a political movement so much as a tribal affiliation, a niche set of attitudes and style of discursive norms that almost seem designed in a lab to be as unappealing as possible to anyone outside the clique.”

So like modern leftism in general.

Plus: “But if the benefit of tweeting all the time is less than it once was, so is the cost — at least for someone like me. That’s because some of the most annoying people on the platform have exited for Bluesky. . . . On Bluesky, exactly the same people — and I do mean exactly — attack exactly the same perpetual enemies, but to roughly 1/60th the size of the audience.” We all appreciate that.

THE LAUNCHES ARE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN EITHER: ‘The turtles and the nudists will have to migrate’: SpaceX plan for Starship launches from Florida sparks debate among Space Coast residents.

JUXTAPOSITION OF THE DAY:

Links: 1. Nobody Likes Your Poop.

2. Your poop can save lives.

FORMERLY SWAZILAND FOR THOSE NOT KEEPING UP: Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be deported to African nation of Eswatini: report.

Deporting people to random third countries should serve as an excellent deterrent.

UPDATE:

“Eswatini” sounds like a fake name for a fictional country in a bad spy thriller.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 5, 2025

HE WON’T UNLESS HE HAS TO:

Jon Ossoff must explain why his foreign investors were employing 500 illegal laborers, including Korean nationals https://t.co/Mspi3aaadv

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 5, 2025

“BLOB” IS SO HURTFUL. CAN’T A PLANET EXPERIENCE A LITTLE WATER RETENTION? Webb Telescope Spots a “Blob” Near a Star, but Is It a Planet?

THE NYT SAYS DON’T DO THE RFK/HEGSETH FITNESS CHALLENGE: “Most people can’t even perform five strict push-ups with proper form, or a single pull-up, without compensating.”

Well, yes, and those people aren’t going to be able to do 50 pullups and 100 pushups. But they’re not the target audience. And most of those people could improve their — really sad — performance, perhaps even enough to reach this goal if they tried.

UPDATE: Pete and Bobby are pointing and laughing:

Exercise is “dangerous”? A new low for Trump derangement syndrome at @nytimes https://t.co/0PiTphFl4j

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 5, 2025

ACTUAL RATES ARE STILL LOW: Prolonged use of injectable contraceptive tied to brain tumor diagnoses. “Analyses showed that depot medroxyprogesterone acetate users had a 143% higher risk of meningioma diagnosis than matched controls, with incidence 7.39 per 100,000 patient-years in the injection cohort and 3.05 in controls.”

Interestingly, I noticed this at the end: “Written for you by our author Justin Jackson, edited by Sadie Harley, and fact-checked and reviewed by Robert Egan—this article is the result of careful human work.”

We’ve reached the point at which journalism is bragging about not being done by AI.

THE CIRCLE OF TIME:

Sept. 4th, 1957: Democrat Gov of Arkansas sends in National Guard to stop nine black students from entering Little Rock High School.

Sept. 4th, 2025: Democrat Gov of Illinois fights against President Trump sending in National Guard to stop black people from getting shot.

— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) September 4, 2025

21ST CENTURY CAR-REVIEW COMPLAINTS: “This year there was nothing new to cut down, which is great because our electric chainsaw—which plugged right into our Ford F-150 Lightning—is too powerful for the 400-watt, 110-volt plug in the back of our Ram.”

REMEMBER, ONLY TRAINED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CAN BE TRUSTED WITH GUNS: Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Miami Officer Sthephany Canizares. “It seems Officer Sthephany (sic) Canizares got into an argument with her significant other after she found some ‘inappropriate messages’ on his phone.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why we slip on ice: Physicists challenge centuries-old assumptions.

THE LONELY LIVES OF GHOST SHARKS: ‘Ghost sharks’ grow forehead teeth to help them have sex, study suggests.

SOMEBODY SHOULD: U.S. firm Leidos expanding Royal Navy’s autonomous fleet.

WELL, PLAUSIBLE: Study suggests saliva protects kids’ teeth from fruit juice.

CHANGE: Ed Dept cuts child care grants to dozen universities over ‘racial justice’ curriculum.

CHANGE: University of Michigan halts transgender treatments for minors after federal subpoena.

DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Donna Adelson guilty as charged in murder for hire plot: Adelson faces a mandatory life sentence for Markel murder. Give the Florida justice system credit: It took a long time, but they’ve convicted these people one by one. Is Wendi next?

YES, THEY’VE BEEN TOO OBVIOUSLY STUPID AND EVIL FOR TOO LONG: Is the Left Losing Its Cultural Power?

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN REPORTS FROM IRELAND: “It appears that more than a few of the best people now believe that the wrong sort of Irish people are putting up Irish flags in Ireland, and that this is being done as anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ directed against fragile foreigners.”

THE PREFERENCE HAS CASCADED: Unspoken Truths On Trans Can Now Be Said.

SHINE THE LIGHTS, WATCH THE ROACHES SCURRY: ActBlue Lawyers Subpoenaed As House GOP Investigation Into Donor Fraud Intensifies.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Farewell, Michael Schill, As Another University President Bites the Dust.