HMM: Another Country Turns on Cuba As Delcy Goes Rogue With Fidel Tribute.

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: First-year classes this fall range from Wonder Woman to ‘queer’ art to the occult.

SHUT WOMEN’S STUDIES DOWN UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON:

"White women, college: +23 El-Sayed"

SNL predicted this back in 2015 https://t.co/Bzvp3CLHB1 pic.twitter.com/XlHzQL4Fb6

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 14, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun Rights Win: DOJ Concedes Gun Owners Can Carry in Post Offices.

LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: JD Vance refers medical child sex change providers to DOJ for prosecution over fraud.

The Trump administration on Thursday released a new report detailing how hospitals have placed profits over the safety of children in prescribing so-called “gender affirming” medical treatments, such as sex-change surgeries and hormones. Vice President VD Vance announced that he has referred the matter to the Department of Justice.

In a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Vance wrote that he is referring the report to the DOJ “to determine whether the providers identified have violated federal law, regulations, or policies including, but not limited to, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, 18 USC 24, and federal fraud and conspiracy laws.”

He continued, “When providers miscode treatment in order to secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover, they should be held accountable. If they have done so intentionally, thereby perpetuating a fraud on Medicaid or on private insurers, they should go to prison. Rather than allow the proliferation of harmful, sex-rejecting procedures on our children, we must sent a clear message that any hospitals and providers that have participated in these practices will face justice.”

Worse, large number of so-called “trans” kids are just ordinary tomboys, gays, and even the autistic just going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of getting counsel or just letting them figure things out like kids usually do, they got permanently altered.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dear Gavin Newsom — When You’ve Lost Ann Arbor… “The adoring throngs never materialized. One could hardly refer to the smattering of people who showed up for Newsom’s public events as ‘crowds.’ Democrats are very adept at astroturfing attendance, but the party wasn’t doing any favors for Newsom.”

TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH: Bill Gates’ Daughter Phoebe Faces Jail Time After Being Accused Of Profiting From Sales She Didn’t Drive. “A July 2026 Bloomberg investigation alleged that Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni knowingly pushed for features within the software that took credit for sales they didn’t actually drive. The illicit practice carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.”

ICYMI: Is Trump Pal David Ellison About to Get the Greenlight to Buy Warner?

MAGA: Apple’s Tim Cook joined by Howard Lutnick in opening Houston manufacturing plant.

Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Wednesday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas.

The facility is also where Apple will manufacture Mac Mini desktop computers later this year, the company said. AI servers for Apple are also assembled at a portion of the location.

“We stood up a factory, started production, and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line, and with Mac Mini production set to begin later this year,” Cook said, adding that Apple had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the facility.

What the country really needs though is more RAM and SSD fabs.

The Mac mini is great — I love mine, and the unified memory architecture makes the Pro model with upgraded RAM a surprisingly capable LLM server.

But in addition to the price hikes forced by the memory storage, it’s now a two-and-a-half month wait for the model I received overnight back in April.

INCLUDING THE MOST CRINGEWORTHY POLITICAL AD IN RECENT YEARS: The Gentleman’s Guide to Destroying the DSA, Humiliating El-Sayed, and Saving America!

ICYMI: The Dems’ Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan.

WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?

New data for Great Barrier Reef: Last five years best on record

Yet, media wrote its obituary in 2014

Research told us it would be almost gone in 2022

Not all scare stories are truehttps://t.co/siAvj2d0thhttps://t.co/hj58WrVihVhttps://t.co/Q0mNUoOOyt… pic.twitter.com/vFRTBNvpHo

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) August 13, 2026

YES, PLEASE: Trump officials float cut to capital gains tax on home sales. What it could mean for homeowners.

SO JUST LIKE THE LAST DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION, BUT MORE FLAGRANT:

It’s very likely that the next Democratic administration will have a justice department that will refuse to investigate and prosecute antisemitic criminal activity from the left, and will refuse to enforce immigration laws banning supporters of terrorism from the country. pic.twitter.com/rpTrc5h8vY

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) August 13, 2026

DEMS ARE GOING QUIETLY TO WAR OVER ONE ANOTHER OVER THIS: Is Trump Pal David Ellison About to Get the Greenlight to Buy Warner?

WE KNOW WHAT IT SAYS; THE FUN IS IN WATCHING THEM STRUGGLE TO SAY IT:

What does it say when an organization has to call an all-hands meeting to define the word "woman"? Especially when the organization literally has that word in its title?

Woke Will Eat Itself, Chapter MCLXII …https://t.co/GURLwRqzvl

— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) August 13, 2026

NOT FLORIDA WOMAN: Tacoma Democrat arrested in five-car DUI crash one week after winning House primary. “Though she was recognized as a House candidate, a source tells The Jason Rantz Show that she did not seek any special treatment, nor did she identify herself as a candidate.”

That’s actually refreshing.

PROMISE MADE AND KEPT: Operation ‘Guardian Angel’ Beats California ‘Sanctuary’ Laws, Hands Illegal Alien Criminals to ICE.

THEY ENJOY SOMETHING OF A REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE ADVANTAGE: Ukrainian Drones Outmatch US Army in Exercise.

Ukrainian troops from the battle-tested 412th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, known as Nemesis, effectively eliminated a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise in April and May. Roughly 3,500 American personnel, primarily from the 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, participated.

Ukrainian reconnaissance drones quickly located American armored vehicles, whose movement kicked up dust and made them visible from above.

Explosive-dropping and first-person-view, or FPV, drones then moved in.

The Ukrainians were registering simulated kills so rapidly that American vehicles had to be returned to the battlefield, or “re-spawned,” to keep the exercise running, according to the Journal.

The Americans adapted during the two-week engagement, improving their use of dispersion, concealment, and electronic warfare.

Ukrainian operators eventually switched sides and helped U.S. forces employ drones offensively, where the Americans performed more effectively.

This is why we train — and in this case, we got to train with the best.

VICTORIA TAFT: The Left Is Coming for Your County Sheriff. “The left’s favorite billionaire oligarch, George Soros, has poured money into the campaigns for secretary of state and district attorney candidates over the years in an effort to place anti-law enforcement and anti-incarceration activists in control of elections and law and order—the very foundations of civil society. Now, the left is coming for your county sheriff—the last local law man or woman elected to office by the people.”

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: NFA On the Ropes: Silencer Shop Sells First Form 4-Less Suppressors in 92 Years. “Did you feel that last night? The Earth moved a little as history was made in Austin, Texas at a little past midnight when two people legally bought suppressors without any National Firearms Act registration or paperwork.”

THAT RIGHT THERE IS THE ONLY REASON:

The white South Africans don’t (as far as we know) vote for the Democratic Party.

— Littlekelley (@Little1kelley) August 13, 2026

Well, that and the money-laundering.

MEH, THERE’S NO REAL REJECTION, ONLY POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY: How Extreme Leftist Ya Gotta Be for AOC and Bernie to Reject You?

SPLC’S DEMAND FOR RACISM FAR OUTSTRIPPED THE SUPPLY:

America wasn't a racist country.
Americans as a whole aren't racist.

So SPLC tried to make it happen so they had a reason to take people's money.

Evil. https://t.co/N3lWkaTQg1

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) August 13, 2026

See also: Hate crimes.

BILL GERTZ: General says China space weapons threat a major challenge.

Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, commander of the Colorado-based Space Command, said the space weapons deployed by China and Russia are “in some ways getting harder to fight.”

“We operate in a domain in which our opponents have built a suite of counterspace capabilities to hold our satellites at risk in all orbital regimes,” Gen. Whiting told the Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama.

The four-star general singled out the Chinese Communist Party for what he called its “breathtaking pace of space and counterspace” weapons development.

Asked the most significant issue he faces as a commander, Gen. Whiting said: “I think the ongoing greatest challenge is just the speed at which China is moving to rapidly improve their space capabilities and the threat that that potentially poses.”

People’s Liberation Army space weapons now include a “robust suite” of arms and capabilities that can blind and deafen U.S. military forces by disrupting and destroying satellites, he said.

“These include direct descent [anti-satellite] missiles, ground-based lasers, jammers and maneuverable co-orbital ASATs and dual-use satellites like the SJ-21,” he said.

What the U.S. has — in SpaceX — is unmatched lift and satellite-manufacturing capacity. What nobody has yet is the means to deal with a possible Kessler syndrome resulting from orbital warfare.