IT COULD PROBABLY BE HAD PRETTY CHEAP, CONSIDERING:

How much is it?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 11, 2026

I’m not sure “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it” applies here.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to spot the Perseid meteor shower, a summer light show that promises to dazzle. “The meteor shower’s peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland and a six-planet parade — though the best time to view the fireballs will come after totality.”

THIS FEELS CORRECT:

By the way, AOC is being very public about getting her eggs frozen for future use because she thinks it’ll allow her to take on the mantle of “motherhood”, having a stake in the game of being concerned for the future for the sake of her children, without having to actually deal…

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 11, 2026

ICYMI: Trans Rep Sarah McBride Has a Sad but I Can’t Stop Laughing. “‘This strategy of cutting off conversation and even cutting off relationships, it was done from a good place,’ McBride claimed in the video, equating family-destroying temper tantrums with moral suasion.”

I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA: Cornell bans processing wild game on campus after bear butchering incident. “Chin said he and his friend checked on campus rules before they brought the bear to their dorm kitchen, and found that they would not be breaking any. He also said they needed to find a place quickly because they didn’t want the meat to spoil.”

TAPPER, LOL:

The story: Iran had a serious plot to kill the president.

The headlines: OMG Secret Service protected the president and not every asshole in the media. https://t.co/2xshtu9LSz

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 11, 2026

HIDDEN VIDEO: DSA on Illegals: ‘You Don’t Have to Have Papers to Have Power.’

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: American warship downs drones with laser weapon. “According to Lockheed Martin, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Preble employed its High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical Dazzler and Surveillance system, known as HELIOS, to engage and neutralise four drones during a Navy-run counter-UAS event. The activity took place last year and was disclosed publicly as part of the company’s latest financial update.”

Cool. Now do at least 40.

DON’T WORRY, THEY’LL BE HANDED A NEW GRIFT SOON ENOUGH: Republicans for Talarico Disbands After We Learned It Was a Really Just a Bunch of Democrats.

IS THERE NO DEPTH TO WHICH HE WILL NOT SINK? Trump Is to Blame for Record Low Crime Rate in Big Cities.

SHOPPING: There Are Police Trade-In Guns and Then There Are Police Guns You Just Can’t Pass Up.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Conquest's Third Law Of Politics: "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."

You really don't need more than that to explain why Cambridge University does the things it does. https://t.co/nBH5nnE8zX

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) August 11, 2026

Say what who will about the Trojans, but at least they had to be fooled into letting their enemies inside the gate.

EASILY THE WORST GERMAN CHANCELLOR SINCE… YOU KNOW: German Leader Angela Merkel Admits the Globalist Plan With Mass Migration.

MY GUESS IS THAT “ITALIAN” IN THE HEADLINE IS DOING AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK: Italian teenager arrested for ISIS association, antisemitic and neo-Nazi propaganda. “The police did not publicly mention the boy’s ethnicity.”

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:

Introducing GHOST.

We’ve mastered the art of building launch sites. Now we’re making them deployable worldwide.

GHOST = Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology. A containerized, deployable launch site system that enables Electron and HASTE launches anywhere,… pic.twitter.com/6Za05Ov2Nn

— Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) August 10, 2026

Tweet continues:

GHOST = Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology. A containerized, deployable launch site system that enables Electron and HASTE launches anywhere, anytime.

Missile defense. Responsive launch. Sovereign launch capability. Delivered where it’s needed most.

Coming soon across two pads in Alaska in 2027.

“Sovereign” is where the implications get truly interesting.

UGH: Madison Named the Officer. Now Kiel Baitinger-Peterson Has to Watch His Back. “Welcome to the second ordeal faced by an officer who already survived the first one.”

WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP: Happy 25th Anniversary to Professor Glenn Reynolds and the Instapundit Blog! “Everyone here at Legal Insurrection would like to wish Glenn and the Instapundit team a happy anniversary.”

And the same from all of us co-bloggers.

What Steve said — Charlie

JONATHAN TURLEY: Sam Alito is Locked and Loaded . . . and He is Not Going Anywhere.

Even after overturning Roe v. Wade and other historic opinions, Alito still has unfinished business. An example can be found in two cases involving bans on semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 that are now awaiting argument in the October term.

Many of us have been frustrated by the Court’s failure to address these laws barring AR-15s and other weapons. Just last year, the Supreme Court declined review of such a Maryland law. Alito and Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch indicated that they wanted to hear the case, falling just one vote short of granting certiorari.

Notably, the required fourth vote could have come from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who called the Fourth Circuit’s ruling in Snopes v. Brown “questionable” and added that the Court “should and presumably will address the AR-15 issue soon, in the next Term or two.”

Now, it will.

This could end up a big term for civil rights — stay tuned.

HIS TRUE MOTIVE MAY NEVER BE KNOWN:

A man yelling “Allahu Akbar” attacked three police officers in Toulouse, France, today, stabbing two before a male officer tackled and subdued him. pic.twitter.com/hbaqKP7E20

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 10, 2026

Next time, empty a magazine or two into him, fellas.

THE ABSURDITIES ARE HEIGHTENING: Trans Rep Sarah McBride Has a Sad but I Can’t Stop Laughing. “‘This strategy of cutting off conversation and even cutting off relationships, it was done from a good place,’ McBride claimed in the video, equating family-destroying temper tantrums with moral suasion.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California sued over policy that could free serial killers as Laci Peterson’s friend sounds alarm.

Schubert singled out some high-profile prisoners serving life without parole:

Scott Peterson was convicted of killing his pregnant wife Laci and their unborn son after she vanished on Christmas Eve in 2002. Gang member David Hill fatally shot San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza in 2004 and wounded his partner. Darryl Lamar Collins was 24 when he killed two people in 1995 but was granted early release in 2017 thanks to changes in California’s youthful offender parole law — only to kill his girlfriend Fatima Johnson less than a year later. They are among thousands who could potentially benefit from the new regulations, Schubert said.

According to Schubert, the board exceeded its statutory authority by using the bureaucratic rulemaking process to create a resentencing and clemency review system for prisoners sentenced to life without parole, a plan that California’s Office of Administrative Law approved on July 9.

Exit quote: “The main primary arguments deal with the fact that one, they don’t have the legal authority to do this, that this is an administrative bureaucratic agency that’s trying to rewrite the legislature, that they’re trying to rewrite sentencing laws that came out of ballot initiative.”

But Muh Democracy™ or whatever.

DECOUPLING IS A STRATEGIC NECESSITY:

The UK Ministry of Defense has discovered that the Royal Navy’s new fleet of spy drones, being operated by elements of the Royal Marines since March, have been secretly transmitting information from the drone’s primary camera to China, according to an investigation from The… pic.twitter.com/8ok38w9Vx1

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 10, 2026

JAW, JAW WAS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Iranian Media Official: No More Negotiations With Trump.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Critical To China’s Space Program Blows Up Just 85 Seconds After Launch.

According to Space News, China National Radio (CNR) published a report around the time of liftoff on what the mission was expected to accomplish, referring to the payload as Zhongxing-4B. The report now shows a 404 error.

The outlet reported that Zhongxing satellites are possibly used for military communications.

Monday’s launch marked China’s 56th orbital launch attempt of 2026 and its fourth failure of the year. Earlier setbacks included a Long March 3B failure and the failed debut of the Ceres-2 solid-fueled rocket in January, followed by the loss of the Tianlong-3 rocket during its maiden flight in early April, Space News reported.

The Long March 7A is not an experimental rocket making its first appearance. It debuted in March 2020, but the inaugural mission ended in failure as well after the rocket exploded, the outlet reported.

Space is hard. But China made a great leap forward, to coin a phrase, last month on one of the hardest parts: China catches its first reusable booster.

THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST (CONT’D):

🚨 Cambridge University: first the Jason Arday disaster, now this.
They’ve appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education — a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims, democracy a “corrupt tradition,” and literacy plus qualifications un-Islamic. She…

— Donna-Louise (@NoLongerTheFuzz) August 11, 2026