Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 5, 2026
LACKING A SPLEEN, I DON’T HAVE THOSE ANYWAY: Malaria can permanently deplete spleen macrophages that filter blood and recycle iron.
A SMALL MEASURE OF JUSTICE:
🚨 LMFAO! Ugandan Mayor Mamdani tried to deliver a speech at a New York Police event in Manhattan but was VICIOUSLY booed and jeered off stage
He walked off in SHAME.
Patriots want Mamdani to go BACK to his country! 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/ovG3TDK9lI
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 5, 2026
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
BREAKING: Prof Jason Arday has resigned from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph revealed he falsely claimed to have published a book.
Follow the latest developments ⤵️https://t.co/BEB0eVBCtS pic.twitter.com/pjTILJRE2b
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) August 5, 2026
Related:
A decades-long campaign to elevate people based on arbitrary characteristics (race, gender, sexual orientation) instead of merit has crashed into publicly available tools for objective evaluation https://t.co/kKfRkWhUUW
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) August 5, 2026
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Middle East Expanded To Include Michigan https://t.co/B5CASIviql
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 5, 2026
SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE: Government School Zero Tolerance Stupidity Marches On…This Time in Georgia. “Reports have recently surfaced that a Georgia six-year-old was suspended last spring after reportedly biting his sandwich into an ‘L shape’ and pointing it at another student. The student ‘was previously suspended for pointing a bottle of water at another student and making gun noises and also punished for drawing a pilgrim shooting a turkey … .'”
The school should be razed and its administrators sent to teach woodshop in a prison.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Earth hits lowest recorded temperature in over a decade.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to Know About Donating Blood: How to Prepare, What Happens, and How to Recover. It’s time for me to donate again, though I’m thinking of donating platelets.
MATH IS RACIST.
All I ask is that you break down the inflation by presidential term.
Notice any anomalies here? https://t.co/da2o6tV4ay pic.twitter.com/mFn0rlD13O
— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) August 5, 2026
JOEL KOTKIN: The Democrats are a menace to America’s Jews. “Many are headed to the South which, once seen as inhospitable, is emerging as the new place of refuge for Jews. Today, the key Jewish growth states, notes one study, include South Carolina, West Virginia and Florida, while those declining are New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Connecticut and California.”
Flashback: In red America, standing up for Israel isn’t controversial.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Faculty Tenure Decisions Disadvantage White Males.
SURELY.
This will help him in the general election. Surely. https://t.co/n7g7eoTPev
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) August 5, 2026
MAYBE THEY SHOULD TRY A CEO WHO ENJOYS EATING HAMBURGERS: McDonald’s Announces New CEO As Sales Slide.
Sure, the “Big Arch” wasn’t bad, but they need to concentrate on making their whole menu great — and on improving their service, which is uneven. And bring back the tallow fries!
MICHIGAN: “Those surveys showed Abdul El-Sayed winning the party’s Senate nomination in a walkover. Instead, Haley Stevens ran a close enough election that it’s still too close to call this morning.”
It shouldn’t be close at all.
TAR. FEATHERS.
Wow. If you thought lawfare was bad in America, Britain just took it to an entirely new level. Police spent four months investigating a reporter for the crime of emailing questions to that Cambridge “academic” caught serially plagiarizing. https://t.co/M4U8VTRl6a pic.twitter.com/oxUj5pi98I
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 4, 2026
INFILTRATION:
In a 2017 race a 31st Magisterial judge offered an early hint the local Democratic establishment was losing its grip: the challenger was underfunded, openly a DSA member & not expected to mount a serious challenge.
He won.
A win followed by multiple DSA challengers picking off…— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 4, 2026
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: The AI singularity … then what?
Technically, you can’t know what’s on the other side of a singularity. If you can, it’s not a singularity.
August 4, 2026
HOW TO HANDLE DEMOCRATS WITH ANGER ISSUES:
🚨NEW: A Hawaiian man knocked out a Democratic congressional candidate with one punch after he allegedly threatened to shoot a woman at a Maui beach.
Police say Kirill Basin, 40, became enraged after a 61-year-old man asked him to lower his music.
Basin allegedly threatened to… pic.twitter.com/awddZb1aPz
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 4, 2026
Related:
This is wild. Howard Bryant, the writer trying to smear Sophie Cunningham as "anti-trans and anti-black," was arrested for choking his white wife, then assaulting a police officer, and then blamed his arrest on — wait for it — racism. https://t.co/YBTmVpY39n pic.twitter.com/NnNi0LIzEJ
— Bobby Burack (@burackbobby_) August 4, 2026