INSTAPUNDIT HAS PROTON MAIL, BUT I HAVEN’T TRIED PROTON DOCS: Proton Docs vs Google Docs: Should you switch? Proton Drive now has its own Google Docs competitor.

SPREADING MISINFORMATION: AT&T rebuked over misleading ad for nonexistent satellite phone calling.

IT HAPPENS: Erosion suspected in collapse of Utah’s popular Double Arch rock formation.

HMM: FDA rejects MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

WRECKAGE ENSUED: Ten years ago Michael Brown died, and Black Lives Matter, based on the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie, was born.

JON GABRIEL: Keeping the Faith: In our current hypersecular era, we seem to have forgotten that religion has a place in the public square.

MORE PREDICTABLE NONSENSE FROM LEFTY ACADEMICS: New president of American Assn. of University Professors: J.D. Vance is ‘fascist.’ He’s “a Rutgers University anthropologist whose research ‘is a mixture of traditional and cyber-based ethnography.'”

Flashback: Why the left keeps smearing its political rivals as Hitlers or Mussolinis.

THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG: Federal judges who refused to hire Columbia grads are cleared of misconduct charges: ‘As judges who hire law clerks every year to serve in the federal judiciary, we have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education. Columbia has instead become an incubator of bigotry,’ they wrote. Well, yes.

DON SURBER: The Media Support Censorship.

ROGER SIMON: ‘Elite Capture,’ Tim Walz and How I Met Deng Xiaoping.

IT’S NOT ONLY KAMALA WHO WON’T ENGAGE: Sunday Show lineup: “That’s a lot of Vance, and there was no one from the Democratic side of the presidential campaign. For the Democrats, there were only 2 Senators (Klobuchar & Sanders), the Governor of Kansas, the Transportation Secretary, and a member of the House of Representatives. Why can’t we hear from the Democratic campaign? They’re still putting their ideas together and ironing out past inconsistencies? Are they in no shape to face serious questions? Or do they simply see that they’re doing awfully well running on ‘joy’ and not-Biden-not-Trumpness so there’s no reason to change.”

Certainly no reason in terms of media scrutiny.

THEY’RE AFRAID OF WHAT WILL COME OUT IF THEY’RE NOT IN CHARGE: David Strom: The Establishment Are Fighting Like Cornered Rats.

Related:

I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t hv all this technology, nor early voting, but could get it done in an evening? https://t.co/8k1ME6VyNc

— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) August 12, 2024

STARTS? White House Report Card: Biden starts ‘quiet quitting.’

IT PAYS TO BE CONNECTED: Boeing Gets Massive Contract With Air Force for Some Reason.

If you wondered why we’re facing a crisis of institutional competence.

REMINDER: Tim Walz Was A Covid Tyrant.

FLASHBACK: Biden’s return to ‘normalcy’ brought us crazy instead — like Sam Brinton.

WESTERN LEADERS AGAINST THE WESTERN TRADITION:

What we are seeing is precisely why the West was such an anomaly in the history of mankind. Specifically, the reflex to suppress speech with which the rulers/elite disagree is the default reflex, and we are seeing a return to it. The West is facing the classic Herculean fork in… https://t.co/oW1oxraPkQ

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 10, 2024

Related: “Putin’s strongest tactical weapon on the world stage is the Western imposition of LGBTQ and the rest of the world’s resistance to it. What used to be Western soft power has now been transformed into Russian soft power – like a boomerang.”

ICYMI: IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE:

🚨 Tim Walz gets TORCHED by his battalion commander pic.twitter.com/Z82VuCsdrB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 11, 2024

First the chaplain, and his replacement sergeant, now this. Can Tim Walz stay on the ticket? Or is he the 21st Century’s Thomas Eagleton? And given that choosing him was Kamala’s first executive decision, it doesn’t reflect well on her either way.

Plus:

Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—
Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?

cc: @NBCNews https://t.co/KIILqMgj9S pic.twitter.com/fkZrb4luHv

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2024

AS A YALE LAW ALUMNUS MYSELF, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT: “Our economic policymakers are increasingly Yale Law grads rather than business leaders or economists.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

JEFFREY CARTER: The Onslaught. “Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a coordinated effort by the media, and especially in social media, to show that Kamala Harris is popular and can beat Trump. It’s designed to break the spirit of Trump voters who were very fired up after the botched assassination attempt. They want you to think there is no chance and you should stay quiet and especially stay home.”

Related: A friend writes: “Democrats are hilarious. Everyone, them included, thought Kamala Harris was embarrassing. Now she is a mix of Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: U.S. Army gears up for space warfare, drawing lessons from Ukraine.

MORE:

Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—
Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?

cc: @NBCNews https://t.co/KIILqMgj9S pic.twitter.com/fkZrb4luHv

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2024

IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE:

🚨 Tim Walz gets TORCHED by his battalion commander pic.twitter.com/Z82VuCsdrB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 11, 2024

First the chaplain, and his replacement sergeant, now this. Can Tim Walz stay on the ticket? Or is he the 21st Century’s Thomas Eagleton?

And regardless, given that choosing him as her running mate was her first executive decision, Kamala’s not looking so good.

WHEN YOU’RE DONE, YOU HAVE BROCCOLI? Scientists Revealed a Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli – But There’s a Catch. Actually, I like broccoli, though I don’t digest it as well as I did.