DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Los Angeles Isn’t Just a Third World City. The Typhus Outbreak Is Positively Medieval.

CHANGE? Trump targets birth tourism and citizenship in new executive orders.

Trump’s administration argues that the ruling still grants him the authority to limit birthright citizenship under longstanding exceptions recognized by the court. The executive orders only apply only to future births tied to four categories:

Children born of foreign diplomatic staff working on behalf of another government while in the U.S. The 14th Amendment doesn’t confer automatic citizenship on ambassadors’ families, and this order would expand that category to other noncitizen employees.

Children of people who are classified as alien enemies, including those who belong to federally declared terrorist groups. The 14th Amendment doesn’t apply to invading armies, and this designation would expand that category.

Those born in U.S. territories — but only if Congress changes the law to end automatic citizenship there. A bill seeking to do that was introduced last month but isn’t expected to pass. This would apply most notably to those in Puerto Rico.

Children born of mothers who expressly and deceptively enter the U.S. for the sole purpose of having a child here, namely at a birth-tourism center. The order seeks to limit the use of surrogate mothers for this purpose as well.

Will they hold up in court?

UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE DAY:

I’m becoming increasingly concerned about radicalization in Dearborn. https://t.co/ts0Vbq8um3

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) August 7, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Will Never Think Their Party Is So Broken It Needs Fixing. “The Democrats can’t fix what we see as wrong with their party because they drift along on a fairytale sea of blamelessness. They’ve always been good at deflection, but it’s become a pathology that has them blaming President Trump for all that they do wrong.”

IT HARDLY SEEMS POSSIBLE:

I'm sorry, how do you keep a 14-year-old from only travelling a block from your house?

Do you break their legs? Put them on a leash? Shock collar? https://t.co/fKAxLxXbNw

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) August 6, 2026

ICYMI: I Just Saw the Future in a Phone Call. “‘It’s been another milestone year for SpaceX so far,’ founder and CEO Elon Musk told investors on the company’s first-ever quarterly earnings report on Tuesday, but his forward guidance was absolutely jaw-dropping.”

GOOD QUESTION: Is Schumer on the Ropes Amid Far-Left Romp in Democrat Primaries?

The latest and perhaps biggest blow to Schumer & Co. came on Tuesday night in Michigan, where progressive upstart Abdul El-Sayed defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democrat Senate primary.

It is difficult to overstate how much of a disaster the contest was for the Democrat establishment and for Schumer personally. Schumer effectively endorsed Stevens and rallied his allies to sink nearly $65 million into her campaign. Stevens also had the endorsement of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and outgoing Democrat Senator Gary Peters.

El-Sayed won anyway, and if he wins in November (by no means a sure thing, but still plausible), Schumer will have another major detractor in the Senate. El-Sayed has made no effort to hide the fact that he’s not a fan of the 75-year-old New Yorker and would like to see new leadership atop the caucus.

“If you’re Chuck Schumer, I’m pretty damn dangerous,” El-Sayed declared during a campaign event late last month. On another occasion, El-Sayed promised that he would not vote for Schumer for leader and has indicated that he plans to back progressive Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen.

Following El-Sayed’s victory, Schumer attempted to extend the olive branch and project unity ahead of the general election. “We are a big tent party,” Schumer told reporters when asked about the race. But that cordiality is unlikely to last if El-Sayed ever makes it to the Senate.

Schumer’s fecklessness only encourages them.

WELL SAID:

I’m not an establishment of Republican, but it is in our interest not to be nuked by a bunch of seventh century pagan savages. I’m sorry it upsets you that we confronted, instead of hid from, the manifest evil of people who’ve been murdering Americans for 50 years. I would’ve… https://t.co/6bEy4cCEOu

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 6, 2026

THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING: A Mass Exodus of Muslims From France? Maybe.

GREAT MOVIE, BUT IT WAS ONLY A MOVIE:

Problem:

Years later someone who was a big fan of the book made from these experiments went to try to follow it up.

They found one of the graduate students still alive.

He debunked the entire thing. He had found it very pleasant and left when he was ready.

The entire thing,… https://t.co/QTslw6MYP6

— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) August 6, 2026

Make Asylums Great Again.

STUNNING:Most detailed images ever taken of sun’s surface revealed: ‘Major step forward.’

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD WENT THERE:

Government-Run Stores To Allow Anyone To Buy Groceries If They Have Special Mark On Hand Or Forehead pic.twitter.com/npQ0PwsScV

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 5, 2026

Their discounts are beastly!

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Judge Not by the Flask, but by What It Contains: The Courage of Boy George.

NATALIE WINTERS: Top American Generals Joined a CCP Spy Front’s Backchannel Pushing China’s Military Agenda in Washington. Some Ended Up on China’s Payroll.

The Chinese Communist Party did not need to penetrate the Pentagon to gain access to America’s military leadership.

It built a private network around it.

For more than a decade, some of the most powerful retired officers in the United States participated in closed-door meetings with senior Chinese military leaders. The discussions covered Taiwan, the South China Sea, missile defense, cybersecurity and the future of relations between the two militaries.

The American participants included:

Gen. Peter Pace, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm. William “Bill” Owens, former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of U.S. Central Command
Gen. Raymond Odierno, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Jonathan Greenert, former Chief of Naval Operations
Adm. Timothy Keating, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. Ronald Fogleman, former Air Force Chief of Staff
Gen. Dennis Reimer, former Army Chief of Staff
Adm. Joseph Prueher, former commander of U.S. Pacific Command
Gen. John Keane, former Vice Chief of Staff of the Army
Gen. Walter Sharp, former commander of U.S. Forces Korea
Gen. Charles Jacoby, former commander of U.S. Northern Command
Gen. Charles Wilhelm, former commander of U.S. Southern Command

The program was called the Sanya Initiative.

Read the whole thing.

SPOILER: They will not do what Biden’s importations cost taxpayers.

Now do what Biden's importations cost taxpayers. https://t.co/SBRcY7ay1g

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 6, 2026

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: I Just Saw the Future in a Phone Call.

Link was bad before, sorry — fixed now!

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Bernie Sanders Just Found a Socialist He Won’t Endorse.

REMINDER: THE WORKING CLASS IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE NEVER GONE FOR LUXURY BELIEFS LIKE SOCIALISM.

Michigan was useful in that it revealed that there's **no part** of the working class coalition that wants anything to do with the DSA.

Black voters in the inner city? Nope.

Rural voters? Nope.

— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) August 6, 2026

21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS: Do I Dare Trust a Social Media App With My Money? X Thinks I Will. “Banking with X? I wasn’t so sure, so I dug deeper.”

MAYBE NEXT THEY COULD TRY CLEARING OUT THE ENCAMPMENTS: Seattle drug trafficking kingpin who targeted ‘The Jungle,’ homeless encampments sentenced to 10 years in prison.

I’m kidding about Seattle doing anything, of course — Octavio Salazar Palma was convicted on federal charges.

THEY BOTH SOUND LIKE HASAN PIKER:

Darryl Cooper and Tucker Carlson bizarrely assert that the "Zionist lobby" corrupts Americans on purpose, to "rot the souls of the host nation," so that nobody objects to their tax dollars being used to "ethnically cleanse" Gaza and Judea & Samaria.

(Both populations have… pic.twitter.com/7hdihIXugQ

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 6, 2026

LEFTIES DON’T CARE WHO THEY RULE OVER, JUST SO LONG AS THEY RULE: Spanish Leftists’ Push to Replace ‘Right-Wingers and Racists’ With Migrants: Is It Full Speed Ahead?

THIS FEELS VERY WRONG: Anthropic Destroys Books. “Shades of Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End, where a tech company shreds books in the process of scanning them. If Anthropic took inspiration from that, they must have missed the part where the entire destruction process was unnecessary, as non-destructive methods were just as effective. Just as in the real world, there are a wide variety of non-destrictive overhead scanners. With an estimated post-IPO value of $500 billion to $1 trillion, I think Anthropic can afford to hire a few more people to run the scanners.”

BY THE NUMBERS:

US data centers directly use approximately 17.5 billion gallons of water annually, compared to the 3.2 trillion gallons used for residential lawns and turf.

AEI’s @ProfDanielLyons explains that data center pushback focused on water consumption is overblown. pic.twitter.com/asyLwGvDZm

— American Enterprise Institute (@AEI) August 6, 2026

And according to Grok, golf courses use roughly 30–31 times more water than all U.S. data centers combined.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Liberal White Broads: the Kamikazes of Politics. “This tragic beldame is referring to Abdul El-Sayed, who will run for a Michigan Senate seat in November. Never mind that Islam is currently being all rapey and stabby throughout Western Europe. This affluent white female liberal (AWFL) proudly supports him, and is brainwashing her kids to think the same way.”

Related:

Liberal women will literally scream for decades about the Handmaid's Tale then vote for sharia effing law. pic.twitter.com/WZ04sUc3jf

— Anna D. West 🇺🇸 (@SlimWiggy) August 6, 2026