UKRAINE? OH, RIGHT:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have launched a up to 25K, or small NATO Corps sized, incursion into the Kursk Oblast that is moving between 7 & 10 km a day.

AFU Bde have between 4 to 9 battalions per brigade with 6 Bn as average, so ~18 Bn seem involved.
AFU's Strategic raid🧵
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— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) August 7, 2024

This is a long thread about how the Ukrainians are doing air interdiction with drones the way the U.S. Air Force has traditionally done it with attack planes, at a fraction of the cost.

A FLEX WORTHY OF A TRUE MARINE:

JD Vance after physically walking up to Kamala Harris’ plane to ask why she’s hiding from reporters:

"Hopefully it's going to be my plane in a few months. I also thought you guys may get lonely, because the VP doesn't answer questions from reporters."pic.twitter.com/xmXBC16MSY

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 7, 2024

AND WISELY: More Americans Own Guns for Self-Defense.

PROF. ROB NATELSON: United States v. Abbott and State War Powers.

Mr. Hyman and I investigated the Founding-era meaning of “invasion” and “invaded” to determine if, as three U.S. appeals courts have opined, those terms were limited to formal attacks by foreign military forces. We found they certainly were not. Both 18th century dictionaries and contemporaneous usage supported definitions broad enough to encompass peaceful but unauthorized cross-border incursions that resulted in damage. For example, in the years before the Constitution was written, both Benjamin Franklin and Pennsylvania officials referred to a peaceful but unauthorized wave of immigration into their state as an “invasion.”

We also learned that during the Founding era, migrants entering a country illegally were considered, or treated as, “alien enemies.” They were not accorded the same rights as “alien friends.” It made no difference whether an illegal migrants’ country of origin was friendly or hostile.

Read the whole thing.

FASTER, PLEASE: Nanonuclear CEO Reveals Safe Nuclear Reactor on Wheels.

FASTER, PLEASE: Path to precision: Targeted cancer drugs go from table to trials to bedside.

DIDN’T OBAMACARE FIX THIS? More than 8% of Americans were uninsured in early 2024.

AT LEAST JOHN KERRY ACTUALLY WENT TO VIETNAM:

The Tim Walz Stolen Valor story goes back to the beginning of his political career.

He quit the military in 05, leaving his Battalion to go to Iraq w/out him.

Months later, he ran for Congress, telling media he just returned from fighting the war on terror.

Receipts to follow.

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) August 7, 2024

.@JDVance: “You know what really bothers me about Tim Walz?… When the United States of America asked me to go to Iraq to serve my country, I did it… When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq… he dropped out.”
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 7, 2024

Absolutely disgusting. https://t.co/dbLZaM6n6K

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 7, 2024

EH, IT’S NOT LOOKING GOOD: Will Tim Walz Reclaim Common Sense for the Democrats?

@presidentialscorecard #fyp #foryou #foryourpage ♬ original sound – PresidentialReviews

Kamala Harris’ new VP pick, Tim Walz not only supports CHILDREN at Adult LGBTQ Pride Rallies

He has children march at them with letters on their shirts spelling out his name pic.twitter.com/s0fwJPz8Wh

— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) August 6, 2024

#JOURNALISM:

Tapper having to do his level best to wink and nod at his cohosts to stop being antisemites on-air is the current state of the press. pic.twitter.com/7SWvgOz53l

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 7, 2024

Plus:

Absolutely nothing in this is damning. Vance was basically right about everything he said.

But all people will read is the headline, and the Post knows that. https://t.co/8oFXBcM9xK

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 7, 2024

I'm thinking that if Marjorie Taylor Greene said this, Jake Tapper might be just upset enough to report on it. https://t.co/AeDSJO1M1r

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 7, 2024

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professor: Being ‘super straight’ on social media part of ‘white supremacy,’ ‘colonialism.’

CULTURE OF IMPUNITY: Most charges dropped against anti-Israel protesters despite millions in damage at Cal Poly Humboldt.

DON SURBER: Walz closing in: Democrats picked a team that will let the country burn.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Tear Down This Walz: Minnesota governor Tim Walz has a shoddy record. So why did Kamala Harris pick him?

ANTISEMITISM IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

Van Jones admits that Kamala picking Walz was her "caving in to some of these darker parts in the party" in terms of appeasing "anti-Jewish bigots" that have "gotten marbled into this party." pic.twitter.com/UTspmYkFfF

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 6, 2024

This is who’s basically in charge now, the Democratic Socialists of America:

Our demands remain the same: Harris must call for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and put in place an embargo on all arms to Israel.

— DSA (@DemSocialists) August 6, 2024

UPDATE: Heh.

Josh Shapiro Annoyed He Got This 'Death To Israel' Neck Tattoo For Nothing https://t.co/5jphdu9LTu pic.twitter.com/rlJwmu9j1i

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 6, 2024

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

It will never crease to amaze me the Biden admin was literally filled with Iranian spies, funded the war against Israel, and nobody is challenging them on this minor point https://t.co/lGMJiPsVrx

— Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) August 5, 2024

CAN’T TRUST ‘EM: Google Finally Admits to Omitting Trump Assassination Shot from Search Feature.

THE FOURTH CIRCUIT IS NO FRIEND TO LIBERTY THESE DAYS: 4th Circuit Upholds Maryland’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, Says ARs ‘Ill-Suited for Self-Defense.

Also, that’s ridiculous.

SOUNDS LIKE A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY:

Even if voters unquestionably elect Donald Trump as President, no matter the margin, and even if the election is universally accepted as free and fair, top Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war. pic.twitter.com/U9QL5FZW10

— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) August 5, 2024

NOW OUT FROM S.M. STIRLING: To Turn The Tide. A new time-travel novel.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China will launch first satellites of constellation to rival Starlink, newspaper reports.

FORCES WITHIN FORCES:

Joe Biden's unceremonious ejection and Kamala's anguished turmoil over who she should be are all signs of forces beating with enormous force to forge the imagery for the coming election. The story, the biography and the "truth" are still being invented.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 6, 2024

CANNIBALISM IS DANGEROUS TO THE CANNIBALS: Cannibal AIs Could Risk Digital ‘Mad Cow Disease’ Without Fresh Data.

WOEING: Shock Revelation: Starliner Can’t Undock From Space Station Safely.

Nobody is saying why, exactly, Boeing rewrote the software in such a way that it can’t do something as simple as undocking from the International Space Station, but as you will recall the first unmanned flight of the spacecraft was an utter disaster, plagued by software issues that prevented it from reaching the station at all.

The next flight, too, was unmanned, and managed to dock and undock from the station, and while not perfect by any means it managed to accomplish its mission.

So Boeing changed up the software to ensure it couldn’t the next time?

What are they, the Secret Service or something?

We suffer from an epidemic of institutional incompetence. Possibly because nobody ever gets fired for screwing up.