Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 5, 2024
IT’S ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER: FDA issues warning over skin peel treatments, orders retailers to halt sales.
EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:
Now remember, complaining about losing 20% of your wealth overnight means you hate black women.
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) August 5, 2024
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Audi Could Push Back All-Electric Ambitions.
THEY’VE CERTAINLY BEEN ABUSING THEIR POWER: US Federal Judge Declares Google Search a Monopoly in Historic Court Ruling.
The below is only barely parody nowadays:
'Did You Mean: Donate to Kamala Harris?' Google Asks User Searching For Info On Trump https://t.co/ai00cfa5s3
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 4, 2024
If it even is.
COLLEGIALITY AND THE SUPREME COURT: “Of late, Justice Kagan has been pushing the latter conception of collegiality–that it entails having an open mind, and a willingness to be persuaded. I have to imagine this push is part of her effort to corral Justice Barrett’s votes at every opportunity. If there is any common thread with Joan Biskupic’s reporting, is that Justice Kagan flipped Justice Barrett in several cases. I’ve yet to see any indication that a conservative Justice has flipped a liberal member of the court to reach a conservative outcome. Flipping is not ambidextrous–it only works on the left.”
FASTER, PLEASE: Economic Resurgence Through Energy Dominance.
THE AI KEEPS GETTING BETTER: FLUX: This new AI image generator is eerily good at creating human hands.
STOP THE STEAL! Evidence Shows Maduro Lost the Election (But It May Not Matter). “TThis was a blowout; however, Maduro remains in control of the domestic media, the Supreme Court and the military which means he can lie and bully people into compliance. And that’s what he has been doing. Anyone refusing to go along with this stolen election is labeled a ‘fascist’ and hundreds of people have been arrested for protesting the results.”
The path out of socialism here doesn’t lead through the ballot box. And where would Maduro get the idea that it’s okay to call his opponents fascists and arrest people protesting the election results?
NICK SEARCY: ATCM: ‘How the Media Missed What I Saw on January 6.’
This is an excerpt from Michael Walsh’s book, Against the Corporate Media, which is coming out shortly. You can preorder it now; it helps if you do. I have a chapter in there too.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Superdragon and Starship Improvements.
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING!
Ship it tonight https://t.co/WVxulAYIzc
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 5, 2024
UPDATE:
Historic: Kamala Harris Becomes First Black Woman To Destroy World Economy https://t.co/eVihd0cKXr pic.twitter.com/HCLYG4Fzfc
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 5, 2024
ANTISEMITISM, THY NAME IS “DEMOCRATS:”
Let's guess the Democrats don't really want a convention story line of "pro-Palestinian protesters angry." https://t.co/acy1AdlFJi
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 5, 2024
STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY: Hamline Law School Sued Over Pathway Program Open Only To Black Students.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Penn State trustee sues to get records on $5 billion endowment.
Seriously, if you want to shake up a state university, go over the budget and expenditures carefully. If you want to shake up a state university administrator, go over his/her travel reimbursements. In both cases, state and federal FOIA laws let you get all the info.
THEY AREN’T SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THIS KIND OF HATE AND BIGOTRY: UW-Milwaukee suspends pro-Palestine student groups after they said Hillel, other Israel-supporting groups will be ‘treated’ as ‘extremist criminals:’ The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee has suspended five pro-Palestine student organizations after they posted intimidating and anti-Semitic messages targeting Jewish groups on Instagram.”
RETURN TO NORMALCY: The Market’s About to Crash and WWIII is About to Begin.
But no mean tweets, so there’s that.
UPDATE:
Hey guys our country is bankrupt, the markets are crashing, you can't buy groceries and you'll never own a home but Kamala Harris is a woman and black
— aka (@akafacehots) August 5, 2024
REAGAN’S COALITION OFFENDED THE SWELLS TOO: In Today’s GOP, the Party of Reagan Endures: The modern GOP’s emphasis on the working class is far more Reaganesque than the party’s critics will admit.
#JOURNALISM:
The media was once the song of whiskey, democracy, sexy. Then at some point it became the screech of diversity, equity and inclusion; the drone of degrowth, global warming and self hatred. It became the voice not of plenty but poverty. People stopped believing.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 4, 2024
HEY, IT WORKED FOR BIDEN AND HE COULDN’T SPEAK COHERENTLY EITHER: Harris’s basement campaign. “So far Vice President Harris has been running a tightly scripted campaign that puts the clamps on her deep thoughts. Adjusted for circumstances, her campaign resembles then candidate Biden’s basement campaign of 2020. In Biden’s case, the basement literally kept him out of view. In Harris’ case, the campaign is to keep her formerly expressed public policy views out of view. David Deavel expands on my thoughts in the AMAC column ‘Media Lets Kamala Do Another Basement Campaign.’ Harris’s public policy views cannot withstand scrutiny. Although they [ ] essentially reflect the orthodoxy of the Democratic Party, they are stupid and unpopular.”
UPDATE:
Think about all of the times that you've heard @KamalaHarris speak. Have you ever heard her enunciate a single thought that was meaningful, profound, astute, or intelligent? I haven't. She knows nothing; she's done nothing; she has achieved nothing (other than in…
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 4, 2024
HEADS SHOULD ROLL, BUT HAS ANYONE EVEN BEEN FIRED? Secret Service Looks Worse–and More Guilty–Every Day.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A Yale researcher’s ‘hot mic’ gaff reveals the academy’s woke bias.