OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Long March 10 carrier rocket succeeds in first static fire test.

HMM: Scientists Identify How Young Blood Reverses Aging in Human Skin Cells. “It appears that the young blood serum interacts with the bone marrow cells in specific ways to roll back time in skin cells. The study was led by scientists from Beiersdorf AG, a skin care company in Germany, who say their findings have huge potential in helping us understand anti-aging mechanisms.”

Other research has suggested that it’s the accumulation of “junk proteins” in old blood that promotes aging. You can get rid of those by donating blood, but I suppose the above finding is an argument for the blood changes that some life extension people are getting.

Ideally, of course, this will all be done with pharmaceuticals, though I’m beginning to doubt it will be here in time for me.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Remember, they’re not afraid that Trump will fail to negotiate a peace. They’re terrified that he will. https://t.co/RHALLJz6l8

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 15, 2025

Meanwhile, Mike Williamson comments: “Trump has got the same retards who thought he was Putin’s puppet upset at the way he’s treating Putin. How does he do it?”

I THINK WE HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO EXPAND THE SUPREME COURT TO AT LEAST 15 MEMBERS ASAP:

Go with the Michael Malice strategy. A) Bring, to a vote, a constitutional amendment fixing the number of Justices at 9.

B) When it fails, pack the court.

— Fiddle Elphier (@FiddleElphier) August 15, 2025

WHAT DEMOCRATS CARE ABOUT:

She's 10000x madder at the arrest of one illegal than the 9,000 homes she burned down https://t.co/hJwBTznOPo

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) August 14, 2025

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The New York State Department of Health (NYDOH) is warning about the risks of congenital syphilis after three infant deaths related to the disease have been reported in the state so far this year.

THE CHILDREN OF MEN: When the cries of children are replaced by the bark of dogs: A slow drift into a world that voluntarily swaps children for substitutes.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Florida’s Ron DeSantis is the Model for How a Pro-Gun Governor Operates.

IT’S HILARIOUS, BUT IT’S ALSO EVIDENCE THAT WE’RE FACING CIVILIZATION-DESTROYING LEVELS OF DUMB-AND-CRAZY:

This video is THE BEST. It's like a real life SNL skit. So many nuggets of gold, too — from the "blue haired manager" to Crystal calling herself "a retard" and then following it up with "I can call myself whatever I want." Every time I watch it I feel I catch something new.

— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) August 15, 2025

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Sanctions for Another Lawyer Filing AI-Hallucinated Material.

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: When the U.S. almost nuked Alaska—on purpose: Project Chariot intended to detonate six bombs to build a harbor.

GOOD: Novel monoclonal antibody targets deadly sepsis by preventing ‘cytokine storms.’

LITERALLY THE INSURRECTIONARY PARTY:

Every president, cabinet member, member of Congress and civil service or uniformed services, takes the oath: "I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear…

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) August 15, 2025

WELL, GOOD: Trial shows promise for new bloodborne staph infection treatment.

PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION: 88 percent of students pretend to have progressive views: Northwestern scholars.

CHANGE: Harvard accreditor considers pulling DEI from standards amid federal pressure.

I WENT TO LAW SCHOOL WITH PAUL MAHONEY. HE’S A GOOD GUY WITH A TOUGH JOB: Scott Gerber: A letter of suggestions for U.Va.’s interim president. Ryan put the University in legal peril — Mahoney has major challenges ahead of him.

HOW “INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN” THINGS USUALLY WORK:

Why is a member of the supposedly “independent redistricting commission” at this partisan rally? https://t.co/L0LQ2nES2H

— Matt Gorman (@mattsgorman) August 14, 2025

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED, EVERY DATUM HAS BEEN FALSIFIED: A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit.

JOHN LUCAS: We were warned. Now Retired Lt. Colonel Anthony Aguilar’s embellishments stretch the credibility of his tales about war cimes to the breaking point.

APPARENTLY YOU CAN BE A CRAZY LEFTIST — SERIOUSLY CRAZY — AND GET A JOB AT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. WELL, YOU COULD BEFORE TRUMP, ANYWAY. HE’S GONE NOW. Pink-Shirted Guy Who Threw a Sandwich at a D.C. Fed Has a Day Job, and, Oh Boy.

Now, if your first thought when you saw this Nancy Boy screeching at officers and throwing his $13 sub at the cop was, “I wonder where he works?” then you’re on your game. This is D.C., after all. There are a lot of government employees buying subs, screaming at cops, planning resistance, and moonlighting as underground Antifa activists.

Attorney General Pam Bondi answered the question.

The pink-shirted sandwich assaulter is Sean Charles Dunn, who’s 37 and old enough to know better. Now for the ultimate Find Out moment — bring on the cuffs.

Seriously, how was this guy ever hired, even under Biden? Oh, who am I kidding? We know how.

The guy screaming “fascist” and hurling his sub sandwich at a rank-and-file cop just doing his job in DC was literally a DOJ Criminal Division employee — and the 'Free DC' activist group protesting Trump’s crime crackdown in the city is actually led by people with criminal…

— Neil Patel (@NeilPatelTDC) August 14, 2025

You'll find my utter lack of surprise to find that a DOJ trial attorney threw a sub sandwich at an officer.

See exhibit A.

My initial federal prosecutor, Patrick Scruggs, who is on trial in September for stabbing a defenseless driver.

— The Lectern Guy🇺🇸 (@lecternleader) August 14, 2025

Not a trial attorney. The trial attorney with the same name is 15-20 years older and has been at DOJ since at least the 2000s.

The sassy sub chucker is a non-attorney who works in the criminal division as an international affairs specialist. He was hired in 2022. https://t.co/nDHrlagzcZ

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 14, 2025

“Sassy sub chucker.” Love it.

UPDATE:

The best part of this is him mincing about in his country club pink polo shirt and little gay shorts, screaming about fascism (yawn), and flinging meatball sandwiches.

The liberals have just become comedy clickbait fodder. pic.twitter.com/N703n7keZS

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 14, 2025

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

English was once a highly popular major, because it taught people to think, to weigh alternative interpretations, and to write. Captured by far-left activists, its intellectual value to students has plummeted. It won’t be long before universities start closing their English… https://t.co/p7Eu2Tkx1n

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) August 14, 2025

THE IVY EXILE: Columbia’s Sweet Surrender. “Before the protests of the past few years, I still would’ve placed Columbia somewhat ahead of the rest of the Ivy League in terms of positive name recognition and perception of prestige, but now the brass at Low Library has to face the reality of free-fall where, Ivy League or not, Columbia has likely dropped well out of the top ten, and may now sit somewhat behind other institutions that it had never been forced to quite consider peers: Tufts, Duke, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern, and (egads!) maybe even some of the flagship state schools. . . . While I do have some significant qualms about some of the Trump administration’s assault on elite higher education (I hated to see funding disrupted for the incredible scientific research conducted by brilliant scholars I used to cover at Columbia Engineering, for instance), Columbia eminently deserves a reckoning, good and hard. The appalling antisemitism so inescapable over the past few years is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the fashionable prejudices Columbia went out of its way to promote and inculcate over the past fifteen to twenty years. So I was disappointed to see Columbia wriggle out of substantive accountability with a pittance of a fine of merely $221 million, pocket change for an institution with a near-$15 billion endowment.”

But: “Columbia’s drastic decline in social status at last became a sort of advantage: the university has become too marginal to matter as much as it once did. Humbling Harvard is the real prize, and slapping Columbia around but a minor sideshow. … Can Columbia lick its wounds and work back to its former renown? I doubt it. One 1968 was bad enough, and the antics of the past few years have perhaps permanently persuaded much of the country that Columbia is but a middling Oberlin on the Hudson. . . . I expect it will always remain the Ivy with an asterisk, the place that managed to self-abuse itself from near the top of the Ivy League heap to its rock bottom. Low Library has made its bed, a lousy and flea-bitten one, and it will be gratifying to see Columbia have to sleep in it.”

ROGER SIMON: Donald Trump for New York Mayor 2030: After Mandani, who? “I have been to Miami’s Brickell financial district recently and the place is humming. Can you imagine what it will be like after six months of Zohran, or even six weeks?”