NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

The Supreme Court ruling that lets the Trump Administration proceed with mail ballot security measures has Democrats freaking out, but what's really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about…

— Mark Mendlovitz (@MendlovitzMark) August 25, 2026

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What’s really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about that) and much more about MATCHING BARCODES of the outer and inner envelopes in a mail ballot package.

Here is why that’s the problem for them. If surplus mail ballots collected from people who aren’t voting by mail are somehow voted on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE, it becomes readily detectable that a ballot was repurposed from its originally intended voter to someone else on the voter rolls. The “no-match” condition means that ballot was taken from the originally intended voter or it was given away. Either way that’s how fraud can be easily detected.

Keep in mind, the barcode matching requirement does not require any personal information that isn’t on the outside of an envelope, and it doesn’t prevent states from using mail to conduct elections, so the hysterical reactions are confirmation they know the gig is up.

Well, stay tuned.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: SCOTUS Helps Preserve a Modicum of Sanity in Mail-In Ballot Madness. “President Trump hasn’t been getting any help from Republicans in the Senate in his efforts to make our elections a little more transparent and less susceptible to fraud. Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t really leading anyone, preferring the invertebrate hand-wringing that was the hallmark of pre-Trump Republicans to anything that might help his party to win. “

EASY-CLICK INTERCEPTORS: Cheap ‘Guardian’ interceptors developed by Florida start-up could turn tables on Iranian drones. “The report cited a Powerus spokesperson, who said the company produces 3,000 interceptors a month and hopes to increase that to 15,000 a month by 2027. This is helped by the product’s modular design, as the readily available components easily snap together.”

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

SCOTUS 🚨 Blue states have no standing to sue before the election.

Wait till after? Too late.

Same exact trap they cheered when it was used against conservatives in 2020.

How’s that medicine tasting?

— Brittany Rae (@legitbrittFLA) August 24, 2026

ICYMI, THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: California’s Revenge on Paramount Comes With a $7 Million-a-Day Price Tag.

SMART: Florida moves to become first state to restrict cash assistance on non-essentials.

Under the state’s proposed policy change, Florida Department of Children and Families, or DCF, benefits distributed through Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT cards, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF grants will no longer be eligible for purchases involving tobacco and vaping products, alcohol, adult material, video games, theme park tickets, tattoos, tanning beds, or fortune-telling services.

“Florida will be the first state in the nation to restrict temporary cash assistance benefits from being used for inappropriate and non-essential purchases,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Tampa. “If somebody really is needy, we just want to make sure that money is going to the things that are going to help that individual and help the dependents.”

How will the children survive without tattoos?

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS:

I feel like this is my fault…

I may have hid “mention Tuesdays” in one or more of my essay prompts… and I used that prompt a LOT (multiple classes) in both semesters or the course of at least two years…

and I caught a LOT of AI that way. 😬 https://t.co/l3gYdL8O5N

— Lady Demosthenes (@LadyDemosthenes) August 24, 2026

DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: NBC’s Welker to Head-Shaking Tim Scott: Let’s Pretend That El Sayed’s Terror Ties Don’t Count.

And, yes, these days being a Democrat operative includes serving as an apologist for terrorist apologists.

WHEN DID THE WNBA TURN SO VICIOUSLY TRANSPHOBIC?

Enes Kanter, Royce White not eligible for WNBA after draft declarations https://t.co/iJjdsZQdgS pic.twitter.com/z8HfijFGyg

— New York Post (@nypost) August 24, 2026

BREAKING: SCOTUS Gives Trump HUGE Win on Mail-In Voting.

TIM WALZ, LOL:

Those campers were literally in Ontario, Tim. Holy shit. lol https://t.co/ZkSvuRY9Wi

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) August 24, 2026

YUM? Scientists Just Made A Cookie Out of Recycled Plastic ‘Slurry’. Welcome to 2026. “”The µBites system is a tunable and portable device that integrates all necessary components… These units could be deployed in submarines or disaster relief vehicles to produce on-demand, on-site food. The process is particularly suited for using carbon waste in extreme environments such as deserts, the Arctic, or the Antarctic to make food – and yes, potentially one day on Mars or the lunar surface.”

UPDATED: Bessent Reveals to Reveal ‘Economic D-Day’ Against Iran.

SHOW ME THE MAN AND I’LL SHOW YOU THE CRIME: AGs conceal records tied to longstanding plans to sue Trump. “A ‘confidential’ document obtained by The Center Square shows at least 22 Democratic attorneys general plotted litigation against President Donald Trump as early as April 28, 2024 — three months before Vice President Kamala Harris announced her run for president and approximately seven months before Trump was reelected.”

ALEX, I’LL TAKE “ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN MAKING SINCE THE ’80S TO NO AVAIL” FOR $400:

This is a plain reality almost everyone ignores.

You can think we over-spend on Israel or Gaza aid, some weapons system, etc. But, Defense and State COMBINED are like 11% of the budget. Significantly cutting gov't size requires targeting entitlements. https://t.co/GPAXEmy4l4

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 24, 2026

Also, I don’t see anything in the Constitution entitling anybody to anyone else’s stuff.

THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: California’s Revenge on Paramount Comes With a $7 Million-a-Day Price Tag.

HOLLYWOOD SUICIDE: Paramount Moving To Austin? “Paramount and Netflix continue to fight over control of Warner Brothers, with California’s state government continuing to oppose the Paramount bid, the sticking point reportedly being preserving liberal control of geriatric news network CNN. As a result, Paramount is threatening to move out of California over the state’s opposition to the merger and their generally business hostile environment. And one potential destination for Paramount’s new HQ is Austin.”

THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

The people who made a secular religion out of George Floyd’s death are here to tell you that you shouldn’t dare politicize Iryna Zarutska’s murder pic.twitter.com/zfc4onMCID

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 24, 2026

THOMAS JIPPING & HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: August’s Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award: Judges Balk at White House Ballroom.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Ninth Circuit Smacks Down Anti-Gun Orgs That Sued ATF Claiming it Didn’t Regulate ‘Ghost Guns’ Nearly Enough. “The panel found California and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence had no standing to challenge a final rule created by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”

YES:

Huck Finn deciding, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell,” is the most important line in American literature, and its most powerful. The book must be mandatory reading for our kids. https://t.co/2geVoeGBe7

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) August 24, 2026

CDR Sal adds: “For those who are not aware of the story, Huck must choose between returning the runaway slave Jim or helping him stay free. Huck’s society and laws tell him it is a sin to help an escaped slave. Huck sees the evil and error of his society and laws compared to the goodness of Jim and the injustice of slavery. It is about not just moral courage, but absolute courage… and friendship.”

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Why Is the Hulk (and Marvel) Trying to Smash Jews?

GLENN ONCE SUGGESTED LIMITING NONPROFIT STATUS TO GROUPS THAT ACTUALLY HELP THE NEEDY…:

We need to find a new name for “nonprofits“. They are very profitable for those who run them. https://t.co/cgINRwbLpJ

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) August 24, 2026

…and I’d just add some uncomfortably rigorous auditing as needed.

DECOUPLING: Google Pulls Every Last Pixel Product Out of China. “Google is cutting Beijing out of its hardware supply chain entirely. Starting in 2027, every Pixel phone, watch, and earbud will be manufactured in Vietnam and India, eliminating China’s decade-long foothold in the company’s manufacturing. Only Samsung has made a cleaner break among global smartphone brands.”

NEXT DEMAND, ANDALUSIA?

Ah, so it WAS an invasion. Got it. https://t.co/dCUhtkO2PY

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) August 23, 2026