THAT’S BRAVE: Small-scale protests break out in Iran over cost of living. “The protests come after DW Persian reported that many Iranians, including cancer patients, were forgoing or delaying critical treatment as healthcare costs become increasingly unaffordable. The prices of some medications had risen by 120%, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported. Some medications had increased in price by as much as 543%, German news channel Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.”

IMPRESSIVE:

EXCLUSIVE: Drone activity at the U.S.-Mexico border dropped roughly 75% after the U.S. used a laser weapon, the military says. https://t.co/7ZkYRoeNAt

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 7, 2026

GOOD LORD: U.S. Citizenship Official Was Selling Green Cards.

LEFTISM IS BAD FOR PEOPLE AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: America’s Bad Cities Are Costing You. “Does crime reduce the extent of agglomeration economies? To a major extent, yes, and we know it thanks to a suite of different disasters—bombings, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.—, to random events that displaced populations—the Mariel Boatlift, Japanese internment, close elections that appointed discriminatory mayors, etc.—, to the historical period known as the Great Migration—the mass movement of African Americans from the southeastern U.S. to the rest of the country’s urban areas. My replication package deals with all of these, and they produce convergent results, but for this article, I’ll just talk about the clearest example.”

Some fascinating stuff at the link.

NICE WORK — NOW GO FIND THE NEXT ONE:

🚨 BOOM! All the hospices are gone. Not a single hospice remains. No more luxury vehicles and no more of your dollars funding their fraudulent scheme. They were all frauds.

In this one location alone we saved America $30 million+.

END IT ALL. pic.twitter.com/AZd6ptatr7

— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) September 7, 2026

Meanwhile: Critics say new ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ will make uncovering fraud more difficult.

“THE COUNTERREVOLUTION”: Victor Davis Hanson Surveys Trump’s Fall and Rise.

UM:

Tucker Carlson asks why algebra puts letters into numbers.

Jess Elofson explains: "I think just to fuck with you."

They discuss how they've never met anyone in their life who uses algebra, which is "fake math" for people "in the matrix."

They conclude that caring about algebra… pic.twitter.com/p6VKLrgrLd

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) September 7, 2026

That exit quote is… wow.

TRY NOT TO LOSE ANY SLEEP OVER THIS ONE: Our planet has a time problem – and it may be about to get weirder. “In 2020, Earth started to pick up speed again. Not by much, but it was enough to raise the question of whether we might need to consider cutting a second from the year in a decade or so instead.”

EVERYTHING IS STUPID: AI may soon allow humans to talk with animals — but some say it could violate their right to privacy.

WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE: Leftist Activists Are Erasing the Truth About 9/11 From Classrooms.

MORE GUNS, LESS CRIME: America Had a Come-to-Jesus Moment About Armed Self-Defense in the Last Five Years.

Gun control advocates are losing the public-carry culture war. Seventy percent of gun owners now report at least “some circumstances in which they carry a handgun for self-defense,” up from 56% in the original survey.

That doesn’t necessarily reflect public carry, since some may carry only on private property. Still, the new report estimates that 33.6 million Americans are “public carriers” — that is, they have a concealed carry permit and carry for self-defense “at least sometimes.” That’s a remarkable 60% increase in five years.

What could possibly explain this?

The original survey ran from Feb. 17 to March 23, 2021. Much has changed in the public-carry landscape over the last five years.

One of those changes is a lot less violent crime. Correlation isn’t causation, of course, but predictions that increased public-carry would lead more violence certainly didn’t come true.

SHE’S BASICALLY HITLER:

The "far right" party is headed by a lesbian feminist with a wife from Sri Lanka? https://t.co/s1Ft036Y6I

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) September 7, 2026

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: DOJ Charges Illegal Voters in Battleground States

VIDEO: ‘Mass Female TikTok Psychosis’: The Lindsay Clancy Cult. “Here is a unique brain frying happening over on Tik Tok. And it has caused probably the greatest gender divide I have ever seen on any culture war topic ever. It’s one of the very few times I’ve genuinely been taken aback by something on the internet. And if you know me, that should worry you.”

Trump should have shut down TikTok.

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, THAT IS A TAKE:

"AI has destroyed Kenyan jobs because American college students no longer hire them to write fake college essays" is not a framing I expected even the NYT to have pic.twitter.com/7DlifkjLE2

— Trevor McKendrick (@TrevMcKendrick) September 7, 2026

YEP: The UN: A Band of Antisemites With Headquarters in New York City.

OH, CANADA: Government Admits Trans-Identified Male Prisoners Have Raped Female Inmates, Denies Infringing Women’s Rights.

A LOT OF US HAVE NOTICED:

Has anyone else noticed how murderous these little pieces of crap are?

I wonder who they think they’re going to get to do their murdering for them.

I know who our side will get to do our dirty work. Us. https://t.co/x19K8snHRU

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 6, 2026

#RESIST: Anti-Flock Vigilante Turns up at Cop Shop With Truck Bed Full of Scalped Cameras.

POTENTIAL GAME-CHANGER: California experts crack earthquake predicting — and where a big one will strike next.

“MIGRANTS”:

This Moroccan influencer has been in Ceuta for a month now and is mocking the Spanish from his gaming chair on beach in Ceuta

🇪🇸🇲🇦 pic.twitter.com/AezYqwiQCN

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 5, 2026

Or is this guy a refugee? It’s so hard to tell.

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: ‘Moderate Islam’ Shows Its True Colors.

IT ISN’T JUST US:

"Interesting fact: without mail-in ballots, the AfD would have won 51% of the vote and secured an absolute majority.

Mail-in ballots made up 25.7% of all votes cast.

This system is easily manipulated and mail-in voting should be banned everywhere. pic.twitter.com/loyO47ExTr

— Martin Sellner (@MartinSellner_) September 7, 2026

Meanwhile, Axios spins AfD’s win as upstarts for Germany’s elites to squash, not as a legitimate expression of popular will: Far-right win in state election tests Germany’s political firewall.

IT ISN’T ABOUT THE MONEY: Despite Record Education Funding Michigan Students Are Not Getting Smarter.

The numbers are particularly troubling when viewed over several years.

Third-grade ELA proficiency has now fallen for three consecutive years, dropping from 40.89% in 2023 to 39.64% in 2024, 38.87% in 2025 and just 38.17% in 2026.

Fourth grade has followed essentially the same path, falling from 44.35% in 2023 to 43.25% in 2024, 42.43% in 2025 and 41.28% in 2026.

At the same time, Michigan has repeatedly increased education spending under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, including record per-pupil funding and hundreds of millions of dollars directed toward literacy, tutoring, teacher training, early childhood education and other programs.

You can be sure the adminstrators are doing quite well.

HAPPY LABOR DAY, COURTESY OF CAPITALISTS:

A capitalist deserves credit for the 5-day, 40-hour work week. Henry Ford conducted studies and found that working more than 40 hours a week did not increase output as workers who were tired were more likely to make mistakes and worked slower. The studies also found that the… pic.twitter.com/DTdQt8PPzS

— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) September 7, 2026