JAPAN DESERVED WHAT IT GOT, JUST AS GERMANY DID AND AS GAZA DOES NOW: 80 years ago, the A-bomb saved countless lives.

And yes, now we must defend against nukes, which is why Iran can’t have them, and why Pakistan shouldn’t have been allowed to get them.

WHEN THEY RIOT, ROUND THEM UP AND LOCK THEM UP: Think the George Floyd ‘Racial Injustice’ Protests Were Insane? What If Obama Gets Indicted?

But is Obama really worth rioting over?

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK:

Have they considered just not violating civil rights laws? https://t.co/hLbFlEro2N

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 3, 2025

But we can’t expect them to follow the law. They’re Harvard, and laws are for the little people.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THEY’RE NOT WRONG: Why industry says Golden Dome’s biggest challenge isn’t missiles, it’s data flow.

OUT: SHARKS WITH FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS IN THEIR HEADS. IN: Mind-Blowing Discovery: Peacocks Have Lasers In Their Tails.

FIGHT THE POWER: Anti-Illegal Protests All Over Britain Today.

“The Starmtroopers have moved in to shut them down and forbid them completely.” Starmtroopers. Heh. Good luck with that.

RICHER PEOPLE LIVE LONGER, AND TEND TO LIVE ON THE BEACH: New Research Reveals Living by the Ocean Could Add a Year to Your Life.

FOOLS. EVERYONE KNOWS YOU USE THAT TO MAKE YOUR ENGINE GO FASTER. Fatal risks from ‘laughing gas’ use climb among youth.

OUCH: An Ohio woman responded to her car being taken back by the dealership by registering the dealership’s name under her own and claiming possession of it.

SET PHASERS ON STUN:What We Really Need for Effective Self-Defense: Reliable Non-Lethal Incapacitation.

SCARED GOVERNMENTS SHOW IT. BUT THEY ALSO DO DESPERATE THINGS.

The government is afraid. Only a scared government turns to totalitarianism and removes the rights of citizens over the feelings of foreigners. Trouble is coming for us because we rejected our responsibility to the country. https://t.co/1lGRxEUVeY

— Nick Buckley MBE (@NickBuckleyMBE) August 3, 2025

Related:

And there we have it: protest works, so ban protest.

The state has finally hit on a way to use the hostile environment strategy to address illegal migration: create one for the current population. https://t.co/6Wvjd1kr0Z

— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) August 3, 2025

The purpose of “hate speech” laws is to stop people from criticising the negative impact of various failed government policies.

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) August 3, 2025

UPDATE:

Countries that ban protests against government policies.

▪️North Korea.
▪️Iran.
▪️Belarus.
▪️Afghanistan.
▪️Britain.

Not a great list to be on.

— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) August 3, 2025

The Met Police took the knee for BLM, even when anti-white race communists formed mobs to chase their officers down the street.

The Met said, "Jihad has a number of meanings" when pro-Hamas protesters called for "Muslim armies to rise up" after October 7.

But when worried mums… https://t.co/XfdXJs11jq

— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) August 3, 2025

Anti immigration protests in Britain threaten the state because they are an explicit rejection of the universalist ideology of the elite. Once we recognise an Eritrean cannot be an Englishman (nor a man a woman) the creed of the regime collapses. It will be like glasnost and… https://t.co/HbjP9XxjgG

— Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@DouglasCarswell) August 2, 2025

WHAT DO TSA SCANNERS ACTUALLY SEE. “Airport X-ray imaging can detect all sorts of threats, along with the water bottle you forgot to trash.”

SPACE: The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert.

TECHNOLOGY: Bacterial cellulose-based dressing offers rapid bleeding control for burn wound care.

WAGES OF DISTRUST: Vaccination rates of U.S. kindergartners down, measles cases up.

YEAH, IF THESE CONSULTANTS’ EMPLOYMENT WERE DEPENDENT ON SHAREHOLDER VALUE PROVIDED THEY’D HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS DECADES AGO: AI will not kill McKinsey: A lot of people don’t understand what elite management consultancies actually do.

I’M STILL RECOMMENDING THIS: “My suggestion for the GOP is that they now start hitting the Democrats with single-subject bills that will have to be voted up or down, and that will be very politically expensive for Democrats to oppose, when they’re clearly presented without a lot of extraneous legislative cover.”

Well?

CHANGE: Yale ends gender medication program for minors after federal order.

OH, PLEASE: Baylor football coach apologizes for saying ‘midgets:’ His comments ‘contributed to the normalization of ableism,’ advocacy group says.

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NO JEWS, NO NEWS:

On this day, 11 years ago, the Yezidi Genocide began.

Men were massacred, women and young girls sold into sex slavery. Their people nearly wiped out at the hands of ISIS.

There were no weekly mass protests in any Western country. pic.twitter.com/hC8VIiUI2t

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) August 3, 2025

THE COMING PREFERENCE CASCADE:

Anti immigration protests in Britain threaten the state because they are an explicit rejection of the universalist ideology of the elite. Once we recognise an Eritrean cannot be an Englishman (nor a man a woman) the creed of the regime collapses. It will be like glasnost and… https://t.co/HbjP9XxjgG

— Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@DouglasCarswell) August 2, 2025

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: More than a dozen states still not complying with new Title IX interpretation. “Currently, 18 states, plus the District of Columbia, are refusing to comply with a Title IX executive order issued by the White House.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: From Dante To Cardi B? The Collapse Of Ivy League Curricula: New book exposes a “thin and patchy” education at the Ivies.