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.’

ENDING DISCRIMINATION: Oklahoma ends in-state tuition for illegal immigrants after DOJ lawsuit.

DAVID STROM: The Soviet States of Europe.

RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE IS ESSENTIAL: Miranda Devine: Trump turns tables on Democrats after years of lawfare — now it’s time to hold them accountable.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Editorial: Back to school? Summer shouldn’t be over this early.

DON SURBER: Obama may pay for the Mar-a-Lago Raid: Jurisdiction matters.

ICYMI: CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: IRS Officials Trade On Confidential Tax-Related Information And Impact Tax Enforcement Outcomes.

WEIRD HOW LOCKING UP CRIMINALS REDUCES CRIME:

This was true here, too. Like it or not, the big decline in crime from the 70s on in the U.S. coincided with mass incarceration. https://t.co/vmREdJlhKD

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 12, 2025

THEY GOT AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE THE PRESS WAS ON THEIR SIDE AND THEIR PARENTS WERE USUALLY INFLUENTIAL:

“Days of Rage” is a WILD book. Leftist bombing campaigns went well into the 80s, resulted in several murders, bank robberies and myriad other crimes.

Obama palling around with Ayers should have been IMMEDIATELY disqualifying. https://t.co/CQDKeZpp0B

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 12, 2025

ACTUALLY, HYPOCRISY IS AT THE ROOTS OF AUTHORITARIANISM:

Based on Dan Carlin's X posts, he supported COVID measures like lockdowns and mandates as standard pandemic responses, akin to the Spanish flu era where authorities confined people (e.g., Typhoid Mary for 30 years). He disagreed with critics, viewing them as necessary in crises,…

— Grok (@grok) August 11, 2025

IN OTHER WORDS, POLITICS THAT SUCK, FROM PEOPLE WHO SUCK:

This is such a perfect illustration of progressive politics: elites with every privilege and protection inventing fake problems in order to sneer at the working class who they've sentenced to live with the devastating consequences of their elite vanity morals. https://t.co/R2k6kay49h

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 12, 2025

UPDATE (From Ed): I’m so old, I can remember when the war on global warming was the left’s substitute religion for the right’s war on terror, not its war on local crime.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

WHAT AN ORIGINAL IDEA: Chinese launch startup unveils autonomous rocket recovery ship.

But mockery aside, copying Western technology has served them well.

SKINNY BUT BLIND: New Research Confirms Weight-Loss Drug Link With Sudden Vision Loss.

THE QUESTION ISN’T WHETHER YOU’RE PARANOID, IT’S WHETHER YOU’RE PARANOID ENOUGH:

I hate it when reality taps me on the shoulder and says "You haven't been paranoid enough."

Sure, I believed that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen. But I thought it was done with ballot stuffing in a handful of swing-state urban precincts. I dismissed the claims about…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 12, 2025

CIVILIZATION ADVANCES: Why more women are switching to reusable menstrual products.

TO BE FAIR, THIS IS BECAUSE “CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ETHICS” WERE DELIBERATELY DESIGNED TO ENSURE WE DIDN’T WIN ANY MORE WARS:

Winning a war requires actions that are inconsistent with contemporary western ethics https://t.co/8PUO4PQAhB

— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) August 11, 2025

THIS:

Like I’ve said, when we gave the theater kids political power, we ruined government AND ruined theater. https://t.co/i4U46hYUPM

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) August 8, 2025

MY TAILOR, JOHN DANIELS, HAS A FORD GT IN THE SHOWROOM: Strolling Through Ford GT Heaven at Concours and Coffee’s Latest Event.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: IRS Officials Trade On Confidential Tax-Related Information And Impact Tax Enforcement Outcomes.

SELF DEFENSE: Discover Cover: Having something between you and the bad guy that can stop incoming rounds is vital in a gunfight.

BECAUSE BLUE ORIGIN HAS BEEN A DISAPPOINTMENT, AND SO HAS ULA: Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk? Satellite companies find themselves between a rocket and a hard place.

SCIENCE: Lifetime odds of dying from asteroid impact contextualized in study.

FUNNY HOW THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES KEEP DOING THAT: Climate Lockdown Conspiracy Theory Becomes Reality In 3 Canadian Provinces.

UPDATE:

The road to authoritarianism is littered with you locking every church in your state down to protect us from a mean case of the sniffles. https://t.co/p3ZN4Qf1ou

— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) August 12, 2025

Flashback (From Ed): Are You Ready for the Climate Lockdowns?

PROGRESS: Nuclear speckle rejuvenation could be the next frontier for treating neurodegeneration.