AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Mamdani Installs Muslim Foot-Washing Station At 9/11 Memorial https://t.co/zDtrlGTZER
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 31, 2026
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August 31, 2026
SPACE: Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese radar satellite to orbit early on Sept. 1. “Synspective is assembling a constellation of about 30 Strix satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). These spacecraft — which are named after a widespread genus of owl — use synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to study our planet both day and night, and in all weather conditions.”
THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES:
One thing I notice is that the people angriest about SpaceX and the other economic development wins Louisiana is posting are not the Left. They're the old-money, establishment white Democrats and in particular the trial lawyers.
Those guys are utterly furious that the…
— Scott McKay (@TheHayride) August 31, 2026
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Those guys are utterly furious that the Legislature built some legal protections for the aerospace industry into the state statutes in this past session, without which SpaceX probably doesn’t come here.
After all, Louisiana has a very well-deserved reputation as a judicial hellhole, so a large industrial undertaking like SpaceX would rightly be skittish about coming here.
The trial bar is a big loser in this exchange, which is something they aren’t used to at all. Not in this state. So they’re doing everything they can to stir up outrage over it, declaring that Jeff Landry and Susan Bourgeois sold out the state and so on.
Exit quote: “It does seem like a dead-ender move, though.”
Indeed.
WELL, POLITICO: Politico’s Big Lie About Michigan’s Muslim Vote.
DIDN’T EARN IT: Inside Cal Berkeley Law Review’s Admissions Team, Where ‘Diverse Life Experience’ Matters More Than ‘Editing Abilities.’
“When I first joined [Politico], I realized that the newsroom lacked the diversity necessary to reduce bias and improve our content,” Parthasarathy wrote in her application to the admissions committee. To fix the problem, she said, her team at Politico “did not consider grades,” instead creating a “holistic” review process that included, among other things, an editing test.
“For candidates on the borderline of a passing score on our test, we considered strengths they showed in other parts of their applications, and experiences they would bring to the table,” Parthasarathy said. “At the end of my tenure at Politico, our team had grown from just one person of color — me — to fifty percent hires from underrepresented backgrounds.”
Parthasarathy’s boasts were probably a legal liability for Politico, which did not respond to a request for comment, insofar as they described how the company sought to change the racial composition of its employees by de-emphasizing objective factors. But they were catnip for the California Law Review, which elected Parthasarathy to serve on the admissions committee in a journal-wide vote.
Read the whole thing.
SPOILER: She is unwilling to learn the difference.
.@SecScottBessent: "She is on the Senate Finance Committee, she is the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee — and neither she nor her staff know the difference between a foreign exchange intervention or a currency swap. It is shameful." https://t.co/Ga5rSz6dk1 pic.twitter.com/fplHsLsAIV
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 31, 2026
HE’S RUNNING: This Obama Advisor Just Denounced the DSA.
THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT: Responding to Their Customers, Gun Stores Take Down Their Flock Cameras. “Their ire is but the latest manifestation of a nationwide privacy-rights backlash against Flock’s artificial intelligence-powered cameras discreetly installed on street corners, in parks, parking lots, neighborhoods or on drones buzzing overhead.”
MODERATE DEMS HAVE BEEN HUNTED TO NEAR-EXTINCTION:
We spend a lot of time talking about the left flank of the Democratic party wanting to get rid of prisons and stop celebrating Thanksgiving but the more "moderate" Democrats are openly arguing to end the electoral college and pack the supreme court.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) August 31, 2026
STOP, I’VE BEEN CONVINCED FOR NEARLY TWO DECADES: Michelle Obama Proves Again She’s a Horrible Person.
THAT SEEMS LOW: $65 Billion In ObamaCare Fraud? “Remember back when Democrats swore up and down that ObamaCare was going to solve all our health care problems? That prices were going to fall and we could all keep our doctors? Those were lies meant to let them cartelize medicine and generate record profits for Big Medicine. One effect: A huge jump in fraud.”
KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY:
https://t.co/ZSZfQbkqFI If this report is true, and that's a big IF, then the West in general has a bigger problem than just Iran. If terrorist groups are starting to use mosques in western nations as weapons storage depots, like Hamas did regularly in Gaza, then the West could…
— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) August 31, 2026
And keep lots of powder.
GULF OF AMERICA: The Next Wave of American Innovation Isn’t Being Built in Silicon Valley. Here’s Where It’s Actually Happening.
The most important shift in global capital right now is not about which sector is hot or which market is recovering. It is about how the system itself is being reorganized. While much of the investment world remains fixated on AI and software, the next wave of opportunity lies where technology intersects with physical infrastructure — from energy and logistics to manufacturing and defense. Those industries are being reshaped by innovation, and the Gulf South is emerging as one of the places where that future is being built.
The Gulf South sits at the intersection of American productive capacity and global demand in a way that very few regions in this country can claim, and that positioning is not yet reflected in how institutional capital is allocated here. The gap between what this region represents structurally and how it is currently valued is, in my assessment, one of the most significant mispricings in American economic geography.
Go South, young man.
JUST THE 20TH CENTURY’S SECOND-GREATEST MASS MURDERER…:
💊 Back to the past! Stalin returns to a medical university facade in Volgograd after 65 years
The bas-relief was removed during de-Stalinization back in 1961 — and now it is hanging once again alongside Marx, Engels and Lenin.
What will they bring back next from the era of… pic.twitter.com/sZ5D5Itjc3
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) August 30, 2026
…being honored by a medical school.
ROBERT SPENCER: Hey, Guess Where Hamas Has Been Storing Its Weapons — but It Couldn’t Happen Here, Right? “That’s right: the jihadis stored all their military hardware in a mosque.”
DON’T GET COCKY: Iran Is Facing Its Soviet Moment and Possibly Its End.
On September 13, 1985, Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani announced that his country would stop propping up the price of crude. Prices collapsed, and the Soviet Union lost roughly $20 billion a year in hard currency—“money without which the country simply could not survive,” in the estimate of Yegor Gaidar, later Russia’s acting prime minister. Gaidar dated the collapse of the Soviet Union to that announcement.
Tehran is now in a weaker position than Moscow was in that autumn. The Islamic Republic is exporting almost no oil, its currency has lost nearly a third of its value since March, and it is rationing water and electricity to its own capital.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a sweeping new sanctions campaign last week, Operation Economic Outcast, aimed at what remains of the regime’s revenue, with the stated objective of severing “every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.”
I guess we’ll see how much lifeline Beijing and Moscow can get to Tehran under the new sanctions.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
So out of 500,000+ immigrants, 300,000+ had a documented criminal history? And this is supposed to make me be *against* deportations? https://t.co/CbE7NgL1Vi
— Lee (Greater) (@shortmagsmle) August 29, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Here’s Hoping Trump Leaves the MSM Propaganda Machine in Ruins. “Near the end of 2024, I wrote a column in which I said that the MSM death rattle had begun, but it was going to be a long one. I believe that President Trump and his administration’s relentless kneecapping of the antagonistic media bottom-feeders has probably sped up my timetable on that.”
NICE SHOOTING, FELLAS: US forces strike launchers preparing to fire in Hormuz; IRGC vows response.
But this remains a problem: US military chiefs warn Hegseth that Iran war is weakening forces needed to counter intl. threats.
THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:
CNN: Hegseth fired all of the honest brokers and surrounded himself with “yes men.”
Also CNN: Flag Officers “continuously” non-concur with Hegseth.
Pick one, you hacks. https://t.co/T6uzbn8crV
— Cleetus Olney (@CleetusOlney) August 30, 2026
HE SAYS THAT LIKE IT’S A BAD THING: Hunter Biden’s Lawyer: DOJ Would Not Have Prosecuted Without Pressure From IRS Whistleblowers.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer asserted that the Justice Department was on the cusp of a “non-prosecution resolution” with his client had it not been for the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers.
IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler had alleged the Justice Department slow-walked the probe of the 46th president’s son. Shortly after going public with their concern, attorney Abbe Lowell said federal prosecutors changed course.
The Daily Signal obtained documents from the Justice Department about the prosecution of Hunter Biden for tax and gun charges through a Freedom of Information Act request. A Delaware jury convicted Hunter, but his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him shortly before leaving office.
In an Aug. 14, 2023, letter to special counsel David Weiss, Lowell complained that prosecutors made a complete reversal.
“Before the May 2023 leaks, discussions with your Office involved a consensual non-prosecution resolution to all conduct under investigation, where the resolution proposed by both sides did not include any guilty plea,” Lowell wrote.
But he wrote that changed after Shapley was interviewed by CBS News.
Isn’t that how whistleblowing is supposed to work?
VICHY GOVERNOR:
"Fight the patriarchy" until it's Muslims https://t.co/Zj4nT2XlCE pic.twitter.com/1BUD6szyia
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 30, 2026