HEH:

You'll never believe who has been in charge that entire time. https://t.co/XYvL1hWqIi

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 16, 2024

Funny, it was just a little while ago lefty journos were telling us that inflation is imaginary.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: James Webb Telescope May Have Finally Solved the Crisis in Cosmology.

THIS READS LIKE A CERTAIN NYT COLUMNIST: The Conservative Case For Sauron.

HMM: Tesla Cybertruck Range Extender Expected to Start around $16,000: The costly addition requires a nonrefundable $500 deposit but brings the Cybertruck’s on-paper range up to more than 450 miles.

DON’T BUY A CAR FROM BIG BROTHER: Driving Dystopia: Ford Patents Automated Speed Violation Detection System for Vehicles.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Texas AG Says State Fair Carry Ban Is Illegal.

I DON’T WANT YOU LIVIN’ WITH ROACHES: Roach sprays don’t work: If you want to stop a cockroach infestation, most consumer products offer ‘absolutely no benefit.’ “In the U.S., all consumer insecticides are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency, which publishes guidelines for product testing and labeling. Each one of the studied sprays met EPA requirements in order to be marketed as effective against cockroaches. But the new study highlights that the EPA allows anti-roach insecticides to be green-lit after testing on susceptible, lab-strain cockroaches, which specifically haven’t evolved pyrethroid resistance.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Cleaning up the aging brain: Scientists restore brain’s waste removal system.

LAWFARE: AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink’s mobile plan.

HMM: CDC warns of surge in parvovirus cases.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: HHS urges blood culture vial conservation amid shortage.

VIA A FRIEND:

And another friend comments: “Fucking inflation. I’m cutting back on grocery delivery and am going to sneak over to Walmart on Saturday mornings for the basics.”

Meanwhile an increase in Walmart sales is being held out as a sign of economic recovery.

Related: Elitist Snob Atlantic Writer Gets Bitten by REALITY After Criticizing People Struggling to Buy Food.

This thread is hilarious. 100% filled with people saying “actually my bill has about doubled” and this guy going “no it hasn’t” over and over again https://t.co/pJvfgjvVqR

— demon peen (@PeeneyTodd) August 15, 2024

You proles could stand to lose some weight anyway.

WHEN LAWFARE FAILS: Federal judge dismisses ACLU lawsuit against Indiana’s intellectual diversity law.

ANNALS OF PREDICTABILITY: UC Berkeley’s summer reading list recommends books on George Floyd, racism, and ‘whiteness.’

MATT TAIBBI: “Press Renounces Itself For the Party.”

BOB GRABOYES: Extraordinary Scholarly Delusions and the Madness of Experts.

Related: The Death of Expertise.

PREDICTABLE: Standardized tests ‘rooted in white supremacy,’ teachers union president says.

HMM: Walz Busted By…CNN? “In 1995, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, then a resident of Nebraska, was stopped while driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. He failed a sobriety test and was charged with speeding and drunk driving. Walz has been lying about the incident ever since, as CNN rather surprisingly admits.”

COVERUP: Kamala Harris Stonewalls Congressional Probe Into NatSec Adviser’s Ties to Iran Influence Network.

LIFE IN THE AGE OF UNACCOUNTABILITY:

Who was the pilot aboard the ship that hit the bridge in Baltimore?

Great question!

Who was the USSS agent in charge in Butler, PA?

Who made the plan to evacuate Afghanistan?

Who’s responsible for the frigate, icebreaker & carrier delays?

I DON’T KNOW

They refuse to say https://t.co/L1pczoRt6B

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) August 15, 2024

Related: Our Crisis of Institutional Competence.

INFECTED BY A DEADLY MIND VIRUS: Europe’s Strange, Self-Destructive Delusions. . . The Minister For Drama has entered the chat. “America has underwritten European defense for so long, generations at this time, that many believe they are entitled to it. This dependency is blended with a snobby-contempt that the European elite have, on balance, always had about Americans. Especially after the end of the Cold War, the American appetite for paying to defend people who hold you in contempt has continued to wear thin.”

Plus: “Europe’s contempt for anyone to the right of the American center-left is quickly becoming the existential threat to the alliance they are so quick to accuse others of being.”

HMM: 5 charged in Matthew Perry’s ketamine death as new details emerge.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, SHE PACKED THAT HIGH SCHOOL GYM:

Extremely small crowd in Maryland for Kamala today pic.twitter.com/MvGCAlbQMV

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 15, 2024

I LOVE SONNY’S: Sonny’s BBQ celebrates founder’s birthday. When I was a law clerk in Nashville, I lived across Murfreesboro Rd. from a Sonny’s, and when I was feeling down I’d go over there on all-you-can-eat chicken night and eat an entire barbecued chicken. We used to have a couple in Knoxville but they closed, I suppose unable to fight the competition from the local Buddy’s chain, which is also good but different. I’ve bought some bottled Sonny’s sauce but it’s not the same — sweeter and without the touch of mustard that I remember.

Plus, a special Sonny’s memory.

OPEN THREAD: Hang on baby, Friday’s coming.