FIRST LOOK: Taurus 66 Combat Revolver: Seven shots of .357 Magnum and optics-ready.

I’m always afraid of a .357 carry gun for fear of permanent hearing damage.

NOBODY’S PERFECT: Another Toyota Recall: Why the Most Reliable Brand Keeps Making Headlines.

MAHA: Campbell’s to eliminate synthetic food colors by 2026, warns of tariff hit.

THE AMERICA THAT STILL WORKS: SpaceX completes 500th booster landing in Starlink mission.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY TASTE TERRIBLE: Few people using salt substitutes, despite blood pressure benefits.

HE TEACHES SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGY, AND HE PERFORMED WELL: We spoke to professor who ‘canceled’ class because Taylor Swift got engaged.

He showed how to go viral.

“WESTERN.” Another Western university cuts ties with Israeli partners: The University of Galway has cut ties with Israeli researchers and institutions, becoming the third major school to do so following Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel.

IT’S GRIFT ALL THE WAY DOWN: “In Maryland, there were a reported 6,126 so-called ghost students in 2019. These are students who are registered but cannot be found. That year, the taxpayers paid $15,000 per ghost student. The school systems were getting $92.9 million for students who were not even in the classrooms.”

JIM BENNETT, A LONGTIME FRIEND and one of the founders of The American Rocket Company, possibly the first serious effort at a commercial launch company, is writing a history of the commercial launch industry, and is asking for donations.

He’s a super smart guy (also the coiner of the term “Anglosphere”) and his book will be well worth reading.

LOSS OF TRUST:

Another big piece of this is that the midwit class of experts always go back to the airplane pilot analogy and refuse to understand why some of the technical fields do still have some credibility – it is because they are the last remaining institutions with skin in the game. If…

— hidewatchlaugh (@hidewatchlaugh) September 5, 2025

LEFTIST POLITICIANS ARE GARBAGE (CONT’D):

Little girls are not ‘poor white trash”
Little girls are not ‘child prostitutes’.
Little girls are not ‘white slags’ or ‘paki shaggers’.

They are children.

Despite what Labour politicians say, grooming gangs survivors were never at fault for the abuse they suffered. pic.twitter.com/rmuqeauDbt

— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) September 5, 2025

NOT AS BAD AS HE DESERVES: Keir Starmer Had a Bad Week.

YEAH, THINGS HAVE BASICALLY COME TO THIS:

#JOURNALISM:

The issue with this guy is not the "whiteface."

The issue is that while wearing it, he spit at genuine black men and called them "boy."

See, he thought if he went to a NASCAR race he would find a whole bunch of white racists, and finding none, he had to invent one himself.… https://t.co/ObLXmkFPqf

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) September 5, 2025

Or whatever you call this racist mean-spirited wannabe-Borat schtick.

IT’S PRETTY MUCH ALWAYS THAT WAY:

You know how everyone says that you’re not allowed to criticize Israel?

It turns out, at American universities, you’re not allowed to criticize Qatar.

Every accusation is a confession. pic.twitter.com/bxKtPKup6y

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 5, 2025

#JOURNALISM:

None of this was true, even at the time. https://t.co/XyZVYhGD9Z

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) September 5, 2025

I DUNNO BUT WHY TAKE CHANCES? Can meat really protect against cancer-related deaths, as a new study indicates?

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?