BREAKING: Court Halts Closure of Alligator Alcatraz.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Hollywood Must Speak Out Against England’s Free Speech Assault. “The stars have been raging against President Trump for months, calling him a dictator who will snuff out free speech. Certainly, they’ll rise up en masse to decry Linehan’s arrest.”

Heh, no. But do read the whole thing.

OPEN — AND ESPECIALLY VIOLENT — ANTISEMITISM IS A GOOD BAROMETER FOR A CULTURE’S HEALTH:

One of the final obstacles to dehumanizing Jews for these people is to remove the holocaust completely from their history, for Hamas sympathizers to say, "Actually, Jews are Nazis and WE are the ones in concentration camps and gas chambers and genocided."

It's very purposeful.…

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 4, 2025

WE KNOW WHAT UK POLICE AND ELITES DID…:

She knew

And did nothing 💔 https://t.co/nLspmXLXOF

— Steven Barrett 🎗 (@SBarrettBar) September 4, 2025

…but we also know what gets them riled up:

The UK government is arresting comedians and pepper spraying children but what makes the left furious is that Nigel Farage is reporting these facts in the US.

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) September 4, 2025

AND IT FEELS LIKE WE NEVER WILL BE: Booze, Bigotry, and Beaucoup Bucks: We’re Not NEARLY Done With the Hypocrisy of Rep. Ilhan Omar.

LOGISTICS: Pentagon Takes Major Step as Trump’s Chicago Deployment Looms. “The Pentagon has authorized the use of Naval Station Great Lakes, just outside Chicago, as a staging ground for Trump administration operations targeting undocumented immigrants, two defense officials told the Washington Post.”

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: ICBMs Are Obsolete — But Washington Didn’t Get the Memo.

JOANNE JACOBS: ‘The learning comes from wrestling.’ “While most students are using AI to do their school work, a hardy minority is ‘determined to keep learning the hard way,’ writes Maya Sulkin in The Free Press. They fear losing their ability to think and communicate, their self-respect and their ‘humanity.'”

UGH: Growing Lawsuit Judgments Against Cities Are Helping Bust Budgets.

IGNORANCE MIGHT NOT BE BLISS, BUT IT CAN BE EXTREMELY PARTISAN:

This must be discussed more. I know people who believe that the assassination attempt was faked and that Trump was not shot. When I ask how did Corey Contempore die, not a single one of them knew who he was.

These are people who consider themselves very savvy news consumers. https://t.co/lD6jKKxoKq

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 4, 2025

PREDICTIONS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY ABOUT THE FUTURE: If Venezuela Falls, Do Cuba and Nicaragua Go With It?

DISBAND THE TEACHERS UNIONS: Democrat Cash Machines – AKA Teachers Unions – Funding the Push for More Gun Control.

THE CHINA ANGLE TO OUR FENTANYL CRISIS IS UNDERREPORTED: ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Fentanyl Operation Nabs 22 Chinese Citizens and Three Americans.

OUCH:

"Multiplexes in the United States and Canada had their worst summer since 1981 [ … when the U.S. had 100 million fewer people] after adjusting for inflation and excluding the Covid pandemic years." pic.twitter.com/yevkLPqdJj

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) September 3, 2025

The moviegoing experience has gotten worse and more expensive. Home theaters have gotten nicer and TVs much less expensive.

KRUISER: Paramount to Buy ‘Free Press’ and Give Bari Weiss Power at CBS News.

CHANGE: 14K migrants hoping to enter US turn back, UN finds.

The new phenomenon, referred to as “reverse flow” migration, has mainly impacted migrants fleeing the economic and political turmoil in Venezuela and who had been moving north through Central America toward the U.S.

Since 2017, around 8 million people have fled the political crisis in Venezuela.

The report, published by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with the support of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that northward migration had plummeted by 97% this year.

Exit quote: “The report also blames U.S. financial reductions for drying up humanitarian aid. As a result, NGOs and U.N. agencies that were filling protection gaps in places like the Darién Gap and along return routes had to shut down or scale back operations.”

It’s amazing what happens when you stop paying for illegals to enter illegally.

TRUTH: Trump Roasts Xi As CCP Falsely Claims WWII Victory Credit.

WHY, IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH THERE’S HAPPINESS TO BE FOUND IN HEALTHY PEOPLE ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH BASIC BIOLOGY:

"What we found contradicts the negative messages that I had come across: Married mothers are actually happier than unmarried women & married women without children.. [even controlling] for age, family income, and education." @jean_twenge https://t.co/cy9aq2wD4X @FamStudies

— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) September 3, 2025

I mean, a traditional marriage isn’t the only path to happiness — and it’s no guarantee of happiness — but in most cases, it’s the safe bet.

MUST BE NICE: ‘Lap of luxury:’ Section 8 covers Colorado rents up to $3,879 per month.

“Section 8 needs to focus on lifting people out of the trap of poverty, not putting them into the lap of luxury,” said National Taxpayers Union president Pete Sepp in an interview with The Center Square. “It’s unfair to ask taxpayers who can’t afford mortgages or rents of nearly $4,000 per month to foot the bill for subsidies amounting to that much.”

HCV recipients remain in the program for an average of 15.1 years – that’s up from an average of 12.4 years in 2000, according to a 2024 federal report.

When asked about a 2026 budget proposal from the Trump administration that would limit Section 8 assistance to two years, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner recounted his meeting with a recipient whose family had been housed by the program for multiple generations.

“She’s 52 years old, she’s been living there since 1973. She’s able-bodied, able-minded. She was raised there. She lived there. Now she’s raising her children there,” Turner said in a video his office posted to X on August 25, recounting a meeting with a multi-generational federal housing recipient. “That’s three generations living on government subsidies that are able bodied, able minded.”

And able to do it, which boggles the mind.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Unhinged Trans Mob Loons Just Won’t Give It a Rest. “Gosh, it’s almost as if their real endgame is totalitarian control.”

HMM: Speaker Johnson: Midterm GOP Convention a ‘Done Deal.’

A Republican Party midterm convention, which President Donald Trump floated last week, is likely a “done deal,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told members of the press on Wednesday.

“The president called me when I was on the road, maybe a week ago or whenever this made news in the morning,” the Louisiana Republican said during his press briefing. “He said, ‘Mike, I got a great idea … how about a midterm convention?'”

And that idea, Johnson said, is “genius.”

The speaker added that Trump told him that a midterm convention had “never been done before like that” and that it would be “‘such a great rallying point for us in the fall right before the election to lead up to that, to the momentum that we have so much to sell and talk about and, and, and celebrate.'”

Trump “loves the big show,” Johnson continued, adding that Trump planned to call Senate Majority Leader John Thune and new Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters with his planning.

“I think everybody’s on board,” said Johnson.

Midterms are almost always a headwind for the incumbent party. Maybe this will help.

MARKER LAID DOWN: Rubio Doesn’t Hold Back: Military Action Against Cartels ‘Will Happen Again.’

MIKE BENZ ON THE UK: This Is A Tyrannical Hellhole State Trying To Export Their Censorship Here.

I think the entire US-UK special relationship has to be immediately renegotiated because this is a tyrannical hellhole state who is trying to export their censorship here. I have to add one more thing. And I think that we discussed this last week.

The British government is also fining American tech companies, American social media companies like 4chan for not censoring what the British state wants. While these are American websites hosted in America run by Americans. So this is like no taxation without representation all over again.

That didn’t work out very well for them the last time around.

“WHAT’S IN THERE?” “ONLY WHAT YOU TAKE WITH YOU.”: Black Comedian Paints Himself White, Goes to NASCAR, Doesn’t Find What He Expects.

‘MURICA: August Gun Sales Climb Back Over the 1 Million Mark. “NSSF is encouraged to see the adjusted NICS background checks top 1 million in the month August once again. We know there is a strong and continued interest in lawful firearm ownership and these figures bear out the truth that Second Amendment rights are valued. These figures are more than data points. They represent Americans from all walks of life who are, quite literally, investing in their safety, security and freedom.”

Well, estimated sales, to be fair.