FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Rise of ‘paper mills’: 32,700 fake scientific papers published in real journals, study finds.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABIITY: Wuhan Ph.D. student pleads no contest to smuggling roundworm bio‑material to Michigan lab.

WELL, BYE:

The fewer public health professionals that we have serving in Government who think it’s a great idea to pose in a pentagram harness for a magazine cover, the better.

BYE! https://t.co/lCDb73o7sr pic.twitter.com/3glKWqAqw3

— Rob Smith (@robsmithonline) August 28, 2025

THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!

John Bolton is in deep trouble, and everyone who white-knighted for Bolton after defending the insane Mar-a-Lago raid is going to look especially craven and corrupt as more details emerge. pic.twitter.com/0O8qt2btXN

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) August 27, 2025

ANOTHER #GREENFAIL: Back to Gas: School Districts Revert to Diesel Because Biden’s Electric Buses Can’t Be Repaired.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED? Minnesota Catholic School Leader Warned Tim Walz Of ‘Critical’ School Safety Threats. He Did Nothing.

I KNOW THAT, AND I HOPE THE JEWS KEEP KICKING YOUR ASS: ‘We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Zionism,’ Says Palestinian Activist Hailed in Mainstream Media Reports As ‘Hero’ ‘We Are Fighting the Jews, Not Zionism,’ Says Palestinian Activist Hailed in Mainstream Media Reports As ‘Hero.’

THIS. IS. CNN. Annals of Media Misinformation: Imagine All the Other Garbage CNN is Feeding its Remaining Viewers.

WATCH: CNN's Evan Perez LIES about how semi-automatic rifles work.

Perez says that a semi-automatic rifle can "shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull."

That is factually inaccurate. A semi-automatic rifle fires one bullet per pull of the trigger.

False anti-gun fear… pic.twitter.com/W6VWnOEhoh

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 27, 2025

“This is an automatic transmission. It can drive a car with no human driver at all.”

JFC, people. This isn’t just stupidly wrong, it’s criminally stupidly wrong. Then again, he was honored by the White House Correspondents Association, so . . .

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Intellectuals Are Upset About Cracker Barrel Controversy.

JOHN LUCAS ON THE DEMOCRATS AND THE NEW RULES THEY CREATED: “Cutting Down the Law to Get at the Devil,” Redux. Can the perpetrators of the persecution by lawfare stand in the winds that will blow now?

TO BE FAIR, IT’S PRETTY MUCH MEANT TO: DEI Undermines Merit, Sows Division, Weakens Companies.

OPEN THREAD: Make me proud.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starship Mars rocket met ‘every major objective’ on epic Flight 10 test launch, SpaceX says.

IT’S TIME: California Republican proposes ‘two-state solution’ amid Newsom’s redistricting push. “Whether you are from the North State, Central Valley, or the Inland empire, life has become harder and completely unaffordable. We have been overlooked for far too long, and now they are trying to rip away what little representation we have left.”

I’ve written about this, and how it might happen.

IT’S A BIG DEAL WHEN THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY IS ADMITTING THIS: How Florida Universities Became World-Class.

In the Washington Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, seven Florida universities rank in the top 100 (out of more than 1,400 schools). These include Florida International University (number eight), University of Central Florida (17), and New College (25), all of them public institutions. Four Florida state universities also make the Monthly’s 2025 Best Colleges for Research ranking, including the University of Florida (number 27) and Florida State (76). And 10 of the top 20 colleges on the Monthly’s Best Bang for the Buck ranking for the Southeast are in Florida.

Why do so many Florida universities do so well on the magazine’s rankings? Part of it is that Florida is a populous state with lots of universities. But Michigan and Pennsylvania have about the same combined population as Florida (23 million). Yet only two Pennsylvania colleges, both private—Haverford (19) and Swarthmore (37)—make the top 100 in the Monthly’s Best Colleges for Your Tuition (and Tax) Dollars, and none from Michigan do.

Of course, they’re quick to inform us that it has absolutely nothing to do with Ron DeSantis.

I’VE BEEN ARGUING THIS FOR A WHILE:

The case is building for eliminating the District Court for DC, and making it part of the District of Maryland.

You cannot have a District Court that has a juror pool so extremely partisan that objective evidence is simply disregarded based on politics. https://t.co/UiaGZovbNQ

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) August 27, 2025

Flashback.

OUT: TRUMP’S INVESTIGATION OF BOLTON IS A POLITICAL PERSECUTION.

IN: NYT: John Bolton Inquiry Eyes Emails Obtained by Foreign Government. It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton’s private emails, but the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD DAY SAILI– ‘Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! The boat is cut in half.’

MAKE THEM PAY: NSSF Asks FTC to Disclose Extent to Which it Colluded With the Gun Control Industry to Limit Gun Makers’ Commercial Speech During Biden Years.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Chrysler 300 Rumored to Return: Could This Be Its Bold New Look?

DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS ARE SCUM, EPISODE 4,224,378:

He immediately gets on the internet and blames Republicans for a shooting that occurred in a Democrat city, in a Democrat state, and was committed by person who became mentally ill because of the gender ideology that Democrats supports. https://t.co/di2QECeuiL

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025

Catholic children get murdered while attending Mass by a trans person and this loser Mayor's first instinct is to a) criticize peoples' prayers and b) demand they stop being mean to trans people

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 27, 2025

If you look at WaPo's school shooting database and remove accidental discharges, gang violence, police shootings, etc., there have been four mass school shootings since 2023. Two of the perpetrators were transgender. 50%.

— Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) August 27, 2025

“Oh, you were murdered by a left-wing trans person? Let me take a dump on your religious beliefs then.”

Just a total and complete scumbag. https://t.co/vEUVjauwy6

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 27, 2025

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Primer On Pepper Spray.

RAIN AND WIND AND STORM SURGE: Wind isn’t the only threat: Scientists urge shift to more informed hurricane scale.

SHOCKER: High concentration THC associated with schizophrenia, psychosis, and other unfavorable mental health outcomes.

JUDGES ARE LIKE PROFESSORS, AND TEND TO BE CARELESS: Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity.”