CHANGE:

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

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 13, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke:’ Trump is giving Americans back their cultural and educational institutions.

What is happening, and what is going to happen, at the Smithsonian museums may seem like a footnote to the larger Trump agenda of “Making America Great Again.” In fact, it stands at the center of that project. Donald Trump understands something that the left has grasped at least since the 1960s but that conservatives have grasped dimly if at all. If you want to restore society, you must commandeer the institutions that represent elite culture. Over the last several decades, those institutions have gradually become captive of a woke ideology that denigrates America while simultaneously celebrating the entire radical menu of racialist redress, sexual exoticism and political intransigence.

There is no reason to give custody of our culture and history into the hands of people who basically hate us, just because they have somehow obtained credentials in hating us.

TO BE FAIR, LIBERALISM’S SOLUTIONS USUALLY MAKE THINGS WORSE: Mark Judge: Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse.

#JOURNALISM:

The Daily Beast is literally evil.
"Vets plead with Ron DeSantis to stop killing them"?
Then you look at it, and it's a DEATH ROW MURDERERS who just happened to have served in the military at some point.
No matter how much you hate the media, they deserve worse. https://t.co/vhbVBsc4qW

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) August 13, 2025

SINCE PROGRESSIVES DON’T HAVE THEIR OWN KIDS, THEY REPRODUCE BY RUINING YOURS:

A remarkable admission from an editor at NY Magazine: a lot of what passes as “therapy” is just encouraging kids to “complain to another adult” about their parents.

That’s why progressives are keen to get every kid into therapy: so they can reeducate other people’s children. https://t.co/3RyzfN0pm6

— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) August 13, 2025

YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT PAINFUL AND EXPENSIVE FOR THEM TO SCREW WITH YOU:

@DavidAFrench The very first lesson kids need to learn about the Left is that they will NEVER leave you alone.

— Michael Walsh (@TheAmanuensis) August 13, 2025

OUR INSTITUTIONS SUCK: My New York Post column: Next target for our arrogant, ignorant ‘experts’: organ donors.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THIS IS NO SURPRISE TO ANYONE WHO’S ACTUALLY TALKED TO PEOPLE:

Black business owner laughs in the face of a reporter who says crime is down: “Trump's absolutely right” pic.twitter.com/5BEED3C01y

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 13, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s moon lander passes key test.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Man Hospitalized With Psychiatric Symptoms Following AI Advice.

WELL, IT’S THE THEATER KIDS ON THE LEFT:

The Left have no viable alternatives. No viable Palestinian state, no alternative to NATO, no way to keep the Red Sea open, no Indo Pacific fleet. What they do have is a lot of talking heads. So they'll use that.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 13, 2025

SCIENCE: Statins Don’t Boost Mood: Major Study Debunks Antidepressant Claims.

FEW WILL MISS THEM: Ford’s ‘Model T’ Mid-Size EV Pickup Truck Sends the Escape to Its Grave, Along with the Lincoln Corsair.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Our fission-powered future: My chat (+transcript) with nuclear scientist and author Tim Gregory.

NONLETHAL: Meet the Taser Pulse 2 – Shockingly Effective. “The TASER Pulse 2 uses replaceable cartridges that are similar to what people may know on law enforcement models. TASER advertises a 15-foot effective range, and the cartridges can be removed to utilize the Pulse 2 as a contact device. The max output of a Pulse 2 is 50,000 Volts, which seems like a lot; however, in practice, Taser advertises that only about 2,000 volts enter the human body when deployed in most cases. This voltage is output in a very low current, precise waveform that TASER uses to claim their energy weapons ‘are tested and proven to have a reliable cardiac safety profile.'”

EVERY TIME A MOSQUITO DIES THE WORLD BECOMES A BETTER PLACE: This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison: Nitisinone kills even insecticide-resistant mosquitoes.

THIS IS WHAT PROGRESSIVE POLITICS LOOKS LIKE:

Imagine getting roughed up by six hooligans' while protecting a woman, a manly act most directly associated with chivalric conduct, only to be called 'incel' by a guy who looks like he eats bananas for the shape and not the taste.

— Andrew 🇺🇸 (@ThresherKing) August 13, 2025

CHEATING: Routine AI assistance may lead to loss of skills in health professionals who perform colonoscopies.

DEFROSTED: British researcher’s remains found in melting Anatarctic glacier.

INSURRECTION! Karen Bass Says LA Has ‘Rapid Response Network’ to Disrupt ICE Arrests.

DEPORTATIONS WOULD HELP FASTER: Study: AI programs might help ER overcrowding in hospitals.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Yoda Statue in Downtown Jonesborough Creates Controversy and Confusion.

“I was told they’ve gotten complaints, and I said, ‘How many?’ And he said, ‘two,’” Gurley told News Channel 11 this week. “And I said, ‘That’s pretty good for him being out there for two years and four months.’”

Yoda-gate, brought to you by Karens.

I CONTINUE TO BE PUZZLED BY THIS: LLM Hallucination Seems Like a Very Big Problem, Not a Mere Speedbump. And yet concerns about them are just handwaved away.

SCIENCE: UT-Austin scrubs website of ‘self-managed’ abortion research project: OB-GYN says researchers were working with group that mails abortion drugs in ‘violation of Texas’ laws to protect unborn life.’