KEVIN DOWNEY JR BRINGS THE RECEIPTS: Fauci’s Diary-Uh: ‘Science’s’ Biggest COVID-Era Lies Thus Far.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 5, 2026
YES: It’s High Time We Restore Martha Stewart’s Gun Rights. “It makes little sense to deny Martha Stewart, who has the financial means to employ armed private security for her safety, the right to personally possess a firearm,” the Grassroots NC brief says. “Even more questionable is why Donald Trump cannot possess a gun when he currently commands the most powerful military in the world.”
THIS:
Now that the Democrat Party has been officially commandeered by Communists, the “America First” folks who claim they’ll stay home in November are in a real pickle. Because no one claiming to be America First would willingly turn over their county to the cretins in the DSA.
As…
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) August 5, 2026
“There’s always a choice!” the wise man once said. “This one is a choice between ‘bad’ and ‘worse’ — which is a difference much more poignant than that between ‘good’ and ‘better.'”
ONE OF TRUMP’S BEST PICKS: NASA’s Jared Isaacman Wants America Back on the Moon — and Beyond.
THE RED-BLUE PLANET: ‘Significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water’: Scientists find hidden clue in Spirit rover data.
Researchers reanalyzed measurements collected by Spirit between 2004 and 2010, revealing widespread traces of crystalline hematite and altered magnetite in ordinary Martian soil — iron-bearing minerals that point to ancient chemical changes consistent with interactions between water and rock. The findings suggest liquid water may have been more widespread across Mars than scientists previously thought, according to a statement from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia.
The team combined hundreds of individual measurements from 32 undisturbed soil sites inside Gusev Crater, where Spirit landed in January 2004, creating the most detailed iron-mineral profile yet assembled for typical Martian soil, according to the statement.
“One of the most important discoveries was finding crystalline hematite in ordinary Martian soil,” Paulo de Souza, lead author of the study and an ECU professor, said in the statement. “This mineral’s widespread presence suggests not only that water was present, but that significant areas of Mars may have once been covered by water.”
How much of it remains as ice is the big question.
THEN THEY’LL PACK THE COURT TO GET IT:
If the California billionaire wealth tax passes, it will be a nationwide policy for 2028.
Every Democrat on the primary stage will raise their hand to support it federally. Tech guys think they can just run to Texas now after funding the far-left for years. https://t.co/rNfLxkmdB4
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 3, 2026
Among other things.
KRUISER: Of Commies, Purple States, and the Elusive Undecided Voter. “All of the above means that the Democrats should be looking at bright skies and clear sailing to victory in November, especially in the House. That’s what those wacky historical trends tell us, anyway. Oddly, the hive mind party has chosen this year to have a full-on family feud. The fight is between the young commies who proudly let their hammer and sickle freak flags fly, and the Dem elders who agree with all of the commie stuff, but would prefer to be more coy about it so that they can dupe undecided voters.”
YOU CAN’T AFFORD TO GO EASY ON COMMIES…:
This actually takes it too easy on the fucking commie.
We need to make these people radioactive. https://t.co/VEa9wjjRad
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 5, 2026
…because they’ll never go easy on you.
IMPRESSIVE: Caterpillar lifts 2026 sales growth target on strong data center demand after quarterly profit beat. “Caterpillar’s results are often seen as a bellwether for the industrial economy. Its quarterly earnings beat and raised forecast signal that the AI-led demand boom for ancillary equipment is sustainable.”
DECLINE IS A CHOICE:
Our ancestors fought some of the most fearsome enemies in the war against entropy. Worthy of mighty song and story.
We get communist jihadi welfare tourists with weaponized EBT cards and TikTok.
Unlucky.
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) August 5, 2026
And a mindset, too.
BECAUSE OF COURSE: Bill Gates Was Embedded in U.S. Agencies During COVID Era.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Russia Wants to Quadruple Military Space Rocket Production. It’s Counting on Chinese Machinery.
Russia’s plans to sharply expand production of the Angara launch vehicle depend on large-scale imports of advanced industrial machinery, internal documents from Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, Russia’s leading manufacturer of space launch vehicles, show. A significant share of that equipment is supplied by Chinese manufacturers that also operate in the US and European markets, while the true origins of some brands may be deliberately obscured.
Russia is investing tens of billions of roubles to sharply expand production of the Angara family of launch vehicles, which are used exclusively for missions commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Its existing manufacturing base is incapable of supporting that expansion, prompting the construction of a new production complex in Omsk equipped with hundreds of new machines.
Internal documents show that a significant part of the project’s technological core will rely on Chinese-made machine tools.
I’m so old, I remember when Russia had a leading space program — and China had hardly any at all.
RESIST:
Montezuma County Sheriff Steven Nowlin said he won't enforce the state's new gun eligibility card law — citing his oath to the Constitution and zero funding from the state to actually carry it out.https://t.co/xhLrzFxMvC
— Rocky Mountain Voice (@TheRMVoice) August 4, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Soy Boy Talarico’s Macho Cosplay Might Be Working. “This is a frustrating one for the GOP. Talarico keeps reinventing himself seemingly by the hour. After months of having his masculinity called into question, Talarico’s campaign people have had him on a ‘butch it up’ photo-op jag of late. They’ve got video of him driving a truck. They’ve got pictures of Talarico chowing down on meat like a man going to the electric chair. That was after he told voters that we shouldn’t do that because it’s killing poor Mother Earth.”
Yes, but…:
Democrats will not recover from this. pic.twitter.com/FhfHpd1dKx
— Bo French (@bofrench) August 4, 2026
BECAUSE OF COURSE: GOP Sen. Murkowski says she’ll vote against Blanche confirmation, jeopardizing the nomination. “Murkowski said the job needs to go to an Attorney General who will “‘check the worst impulses of the administration,’ and she doesn’t think Blanche would do that. She said she is also concerned about the weaponization of the Justice Department, which she said has become more frequent under the Trump administration.”
Murkowski voted to confirm Barack Obama’s “loyal wingman,” Eric Holder, as AG.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: California scrubs political conflicts of interest from its donation portal.
California’s ethics agency oversees an unlimited, blank-check system of payments solicited by elected officials — including the $347 million Gov. Gavin Newsom has steered through California politics. An investigation by The Center Square has found the state’s “transparency” portal shows the money, but it omits the conflicts of interest.
Voters using the database have no way to search whether donors had business before the government at the time of their donations, even though that information is collected by the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC).
The omission matters because California caps campaign checks. It does not cap “behested payments.” State law allows elected officials to solicit unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, tribes, foundations and other special interest groups — so long as the money goes to a third party instead of a campaign account.
That means a donor who would otherwise be limited to $39,200 per election for a governor’s campaign can give millions more to a nonprofit, public project, or outside cause if the money is solicited by that same official and reported as a behested payment.
“It’s another way of trying to influence government,” explained Richard Briffault, a Columbia University law professor and campaign finance expert.
You don’t say.
Exit quote: “California’s FPPC was born from a demand for transparency. Voters created the agency in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal to shine light on political money and government ethics.”
Light’s off.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Michigan bar grovels to ‘Free Palestine’ activists for hosting event for El-Sayed’s opponent.
A Grand Rapids, Michigan, bar, Pux Cider Taphouse, has apologized on Instagram for hosting Michigan Senate hopeful and Democrat Haley Stevens at its establishment.
“When Pux was approached to book this event, we were only told it would be a private women’s Dem event,” the message read. “Pux was never advised that Haley Stevens would be connected with this event. We are heartbroken as we pride ourselves on being not only a queer-friendly space but also have advocated and continue to call for a free Palestine.
Well, there’s their problem.
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S A LOW BAR: Mike Rowe Respects Workers More Than the Socialists Claiming to Save Them.
August 4, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Penn professor claims ‘cisness’ is unnatural, ‘sex isn’t real’ in new book.
University of Pennsylvania Professor Beans Velocci published a book this year claiming “sex isn’t real” and the gender “binary” is “incoherent.”
Velocci is an assistant professor in history and the sociology of science who claims to be nonbinary and transgender. This identification has shaped the professor’s questions and conclusions because “that is how knowledge works,” Velocci wrote in the book titled “Sex Isn’t Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary.”
In an interview with Duke University Press, which published the book, Velocci expressed joy that “any right wing or TERF detractor who wants to s***-talk the book is going to have to say or write the phrase ‘Sex Isn’t Real’ in the process.”
Well, when you put it like that, it sounds more like an angry political agenda than serious scholarship.
Besides, Velocci isn’t a biologist — who is he to define what a woman isn’t?
WHAT A MESS… AND A PREVIEW OF MESSES TO COME:
The four talking points I've been seeing a lot of today regarding the WalMarx ID kerfuffle:
1. Obviously we will have an ID rule to prevent product flipping, what are you stupid?
2. Obviously we won't have an ID rule, what are you stupid?
3. Shut up.
4. F*ck you. pic.twitter.com/UerapZmD3L
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) August 4, 2026
TAKING OFF AND NUKING THE ENTIRE SITE FROM ORBIT DOES SEEM EXTREME: There’s a Real Problem in Seattle, and With Its Clueless Mayor, It’s Hard to See Resolution.
OH, CANADA: RBC is Latest Bank to Discriminate Against US Gun Companies.
Nate Treadaway, CEO of Vigilant Gear, LLC, tagged NSSF in a LinkedIn post, writing, “Should I be surprised that a Canadian based bank ‘restricts’ lending (aka discriminates) to the firearms industry? Probably not. But, for the love of God, don’t solicit me first and then tell me you won’t do business because our industry. Shame on him. Shame on RBC. Shame on First American.”
Treadaway wasn’t done.
“PS — No, I don’t need any lending services today so please don’t solicit me with your lending proposals. I get 5-6 a week, but this one made it though [sic] my spam filter and thought I’d hear him out. Lesson learned,” he added.
Treadaway isn’t a “Johnny-come-lately” to the firearm industry. Previous to his role at Vigilant Gear, he was CEO of BPI Outdoors and prior to that, President & CEO of Blackpowder Products, Inc. He’s been in the firearm industry for nearly two decades. He’s seen the devastating effects of Operation Choke Point and what happened when banking discrimination was privatized by corporate banks. He was at the helm of these companies when they had to navigate the Biden administration weaponizing the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to spy on Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights by legally purchasing firearms and ammunition.
Read the whole thing.
NAVY, ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION? B-21 bomber, F-47 next-generation fighter ahead of schedule, top Air Force general says.