“SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING:”

Mamdani hands symbolic 9/11 pen to former lawyer of al-Qaeda terrorist: 'tone deaf' https://t.co/UH4ZWlZmTi pic.twitter.com/MBN9O6bDGf

— New York Post (@nypost) September 5, 2026

JUST ABOUT THE MOST UN-AMERICA THING ANYBODY EVER SAID:

Man. We really let the universities just cook our entire country. https://t.co/DwYglrfLS9

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 4, 2026

THE LONG COUNTER-MARCH:

The Counter-March – What You Actually Do on Monday

Gramsci’s side won because ordinary people made ordinary career decisions with a fifty-year horizon. Not heroes. Teachers, editors, functionaries, each one making a choice that looked small. That is the whole secret, and it is… https://t.co/OL0y9fZ1Kb

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) September 5, 2026

Read the whole thing, but this last point stands out: “Play the fifty-year game. The march took from 1968 to roughly 2015 to complete. Anyone expecting a decisive victory in one electoral cycle will quit in disappointment, which is itself part of why the other side won. Choose things that compound: skills, institutions, children, reputations.”

I’d also add that conservatives largely checked out (or were forced out) of the arts — and that was every bit as damaging as any political or economic losses.

HEY, BIG SPENDER:

Epstein-associated billionaire @reidhoffman gave more than ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS for @jamestalarico campaign PAC “Lone Star Rising”! https://t.co/IFunQfbQqi

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 5, 2026

Something, something, billionaires buying our elections.

GUN CONTROL LAWS ARE MEANT TO INCONVENIENCE OR EVEN DISARM THE LAW-ABIDING. NEXT QUESTION? Why Bother Having Gun Control Laws When Federal Judges Give Passes to Criminals Who Violate Them?

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Mayor Mamdani Up All Night Practicing Sad Face For Upcoming 9/11 Observance https://t.co/gp7FHTYtUs

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 4, 2026

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: CNN botches Gloria Steinem tribute days after embarrassing Dolly Parton impersonator mix-up.

LIVING HISTORY: Inside The ‘Top Secret’ Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years.

With a change in presidential administrations came a change in attitude toward the devices. In 2021, the Biden administration began pushing to classify the items as “short-barreled rifles” under the NFA, and issued a final regulation to that effect in January 2023, giving those who owned firearms with those devices 120 days to register them with ATF in an “amnesty” before they would face a potential ten-year prison sentence.

Pro-Second Amendment groups challenged the regulation in court almost immediately, eventually securing court orders blocking it. However, they also began to eye a legislative fix to the issue once President Donald Trump won a second term.

“One thing we could do is we could work with the [second Trump] administration to undo that regulation,” Johnston said. “The other thing we could do is just nullify that statute, try to repeal that statute.”

Despite the straightforward nature of the plan, GOA didn’t want to broadcast their intentions and risk pushback from anti-Second Amendment organizations. Therefore, it didn’t openly discuss any moves pertaining to federal legislation regarding suppressors or other items covered by the National Firearms Act in its national alerts at the start of the 119th Congress.

Well played — and do read the whole thing.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Fought the Law and the Law Won Real Good. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to take a totally deserved beating, why to keep it in your pants at the park, and that for some people, holstering your pistol might not be as easy as it looks.”

SPACE IS HARD: Is Russia’s rival to Starlink failing? Here’s what we know.

THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE DISMISSED THE ACCORDS AS “TACTICS OF THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION”:

The Lebanese MP and Sunni leader @fmakhzoumi has told @MiddleEast_24 that Lebanon could join the Abraham Accords after Hezbollah is disarmed.

He makes it clear that peace with Israel would be nothing but good for the country. pic.twitter.com/S2gntxGZAk

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 4, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Portland Cops FAFO After Appeasing Antifa Terrorists.

SPACE: ‘A new mission starting today’: 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival.

Today’s maneuver doesn’t place BepiColombo in orbit around Mercury quite yet. MPO and Mio will spend the next several weeks navigating toward the planet ahead of orbital insertion on Nov. 21. “Arriving to Mercury is not as simple as other missions that do a big maneuver and they are there,” said Elsa Montagnon, BepiColombo’s operations manager. “In our case, it’s going to be six months of continuous activities.”

The Nov. 21 arrival will begin a sequence of 16 maneuvers to progressively lower and reshape BepiColombo’s orbit. Mio is scheduled to separate from MPO around Dec. 9 and settle into a highly elliptical polar orbit. MPO will jettison Mio’s MOSIF sunshield (Magnetospheric Orbiter Sunshield and Interface Structure) on Dec. 16, then continue lowering its own altitude before reaching its own polar orbit on March 10, 2027.

BepiColombo is scheduled to begin science operations on April 6, 2027, with MPO and Mio studying Mercury simultaneously from complementary orbits. MPO will focus on Mercury’s surface composition, geology and planetary interior, while Mio will investigate the planet’s magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind.

Here’s to hoping everything goes as planned — and the images ought to be outstanding.

BREAKING: The Lindsay Clancy Child Killing Legal Circus Collapses. “The goat rodeo known as the Lindsay Clancy trial is staggering to the finish line, and it looks like mom could be retried for strangling to death her two toddlers and her baby. A state supreme court justice ruled in a last-minute emergency appeal that the judge in the case was right to declare a mistrial. Under a mistrial, double jeopardy would not apply and she could be retried.”

PROGRESSIVE WOMEN ARE DANGERS TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS:

This is a reminder that something like 40% of all liberal women have at least one diagnosed mental illness. What a fun new legal standard this defense has just come up with. https://t.co/MopKE3nX9D

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 4, 2026

SOMETHING WEIRDER IS GOING ON WITH MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT PRIMARY VOTERS: Something VERY, VERY Weird Is Going on With Abdul El-Sayed’s Campaign Strategy.

2026, MAN: Fed Up With Flock. “If you’d asked me last year to guess what issues might be concerning the body politic in a midterm year, I might have answered ‘inflation, jobs growth, social justice madness, housing costs, and the Iran war.’ Not on my bingo card: Women cheering on a mother who confessed to killing her three children and the public uniting against Flock cameras, yet here we are.”

ALMOST!

It's almost like the terrorist is behaving like a terrorist. https://t.co/wGfcG8EqBG

— RBe (@RBPundit) September 4, 2026

WOW: ICE Breaks Arrest Record Again in August.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS? ‘F**k you..hurry up and die’: Swing-seat Democratic House candidate’s deleted tweets show far-left record.

William Lawrence, the Democratic nominee in one of the country’s most competitive House races in Michigan, deleted hundreds of old social media posts in which he embraced police and prison abolition, called for nationalizing fossil-fuel companies to end their production, attacked moderate Democrats and argued for a “fundamental overhaul” of the Constitution.

Other deleted posts show Lawrence writing “f**k” the nuclear-family home and calling it an “isolating, individualistic, violent way of organizing society,” envisioning “a world of free and open migration,” and calling to “Abolish the Senate.”

Lawrence even wrote a song inspired by moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s resistance to Democrats’ climate agenda: “Our generation says f**k you for everything,” Lawrence wrote in lyrics he posted in December 2021. “Hurry up and die so that we can get started.”

Now of course he claims he was just “thinking out loud” on the internet.

RESIST:

This means they intend to keep the migrants.

Why build facilities for them when their home is just a few kilometers away?

— Dissident Landman (@DissLandman) September 4, 2026

COLD WAR II IS FOUGHT IN REALMS THAT DIDN’T EVEN EXIST DURING COLD WAR I: Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road.

China’s open-weight AI models are sparking debates that echo the concerns the telecom buildout raised: How does the majority world access an indispensable technology without surrendering sovereignty, or in other words, without trading access today for dependency tomorrow?

China’s playbook appears virtually identical to its telecom strategy. Its AI buildout involves many of the same companies, the same countries, and the same vocabulary as its broadband strategy. And open weights play the role subsidized equipment once did: They are the keystone to an indispensable new technology that one country can provide to another virtually for free to get a foot in the door, but they are also useless without the intricate, interconnected stack of other components that, conveniently, are far more expensive.

Read the whole thing.

HEALTHCARE, TOO:

I'm going to share this again, per my discussion with @glennbeck– @Mark_J_Perry's "chart of the century"- govt involvement with industry makes it more expensive.

Get govt OUT of student lending and reform it immediately so young people don't feel the American Dream is impossible https://t.co/79SeHYQgnu pic.twitter.com/X8llq4vP3D

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) September 3, 2026

THE HORROR… THE HORROR…: Bad News, Abdul. Tucker Carlson Wants to Be Your Bestie.

“THE HIT JOB WAS ON THE STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE. REAGAN WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE”:

I was once a Scientific American subscriber. I loved that magazine; reading it was one of the highlights of my month. I canceled, and wept for what the magazine was becoming, when they published a theme issue that was a transparent political hit job.

Sounds like current news?… https://t.co/YI86oiNOic

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 4, 2026

Takeaway: “It’s time for a dissolution of the monasteries.”