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?”

OPEN THREAD: Express yourself.

HMM: Hidden fault beneath Canada could trigger massive earthquake after 12,000 years of silence.

RESHORING: GE Appliances shifts more production to US as part of a $3 billion investment.

WE NEED LOTS OF RESHORING ASAP: America’s Drone Crisis: ‘Made in America’ Is Nearly Impossible.

FASTER, PLEASE: New Vaccine For Two Deadly Cancers Shows Promise in Clinical Trial.

THEY CAN’T HELP IT:

Dems continue to make decisions that look like they are following a script written by Republicans. https://t.co/SGBoYwTEI0

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 14, 2025

SEDUCTIVE AI: Artificial Intimacy: The Next Giant Social Experiment on Young Minds: How emotionally intelligent chatbots could trigger a new mental health crisis.

ONE OF MY STUDENTS HAD A BAD EXPERIENCE WITH USAA A FEW YEARS AGO: ‘Completely Numb:’ Veteran details toll from ordeal with USAA, insurer known for covering veterans.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Moral Imperative: After Senate Vote, North Carolina House Needs to Override Governor’s Veto of Permitless Carry.

RISE OF THE MACHINES: A furry antelope robot is keeping tabs on its organic cousins.

IF YOU CAN’T FIX IT, BURN IT DOWN: Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: An experimental therapy could lead to one universal antiviral to rule them all.

READER BOOK PLUG: You Kill Me (Lt. Eve Sharpe Thrillers).

NARRATIVE FAIL: Study: Dollar store foods aren’t doing harm to Americans’ diets.

IT’S A LEFTY PIPELINE: 80% of federally funded Truman Scholars involved in liberal causes within a decade of winning.

THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE WOKENESS: Lord’s Prayer halted at school board meeting: ‘We cannot have a religious prayer before the Land Acknowledgement.’

MEH, OBAMA SAID WE COULDN’T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF AN OIL SHORTAGE. AND YET…

DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb says we "can't arrest our way out of crime" pic.twitter.com/hzvXO3e33i

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 11, 2025

Democrats want to dismiss the clear and simple and workable answers because they don’t produce enough graft. Also, once you solve a problem, you can’t use it anymore.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Next target for our arrogant, ignorant ‘experts’: organ donors.

CHANGE: Trump Signs Executive Order to Boost Commercial Space Industry.

Here’s the order and here’s the White House Fact Sheet. Excellent and overdue; helping to clear away the bureaucratic underbrush that’s slowed, for example, Space X.

#JOURNALISM:

Having worked in the business for 30+ years I can say journalism always had problems, but across-the-board wholesale invented narratives are new. https://t.co/uJFsiD1W64

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) August 13, 2025

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Bessent Targets ‘Eye-Popping’ Stock Gains Made By Members Of Congress.

DON SURBER: Trump fights crime, beats Democrats: DC is now Donald Country.

IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING ABOUT THESE CHANGES:

You're going to hear a lot in the coming year about universities restructuring and downsizing or closing many majors or PhD programs, and while it is understandable that many people will assume this is a response to Trump or "antiwoke" pressure, you should keep in mind that we…

— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) August 13, 2025

Related:

I think it's worth noting that U Chicago is the same school whose English Dept in 2020-21 said that they'd only accept grad students interested in BLM / Black Studies. I said at the time (see link next post) that this was the same as a department basically shutting itself down. https://t.co/hVpPnKUIUh pic.twitter.com/P9YxinwflN

— Jacob Shell (@JacobAShell) August 13, 2025

CHANGE:

There’s a new sheriff in town. https://t.co/JClToZy5Ve

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 13, 2025