SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS GENERATED BY BOTS:

The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:

We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found 200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate… pic.twitter.com/Mj0SqerdlH

— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 28, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now.

A Falcon 9 launch early Tuesday was the last planned Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral until SpaceX begins flying Starship missions from Florida, according to Kiko Dontchev, the company’s vice president of launch. For at least the rest of the year, and maybe longer, this means the launch rate at the Florida spaceport will drop from eight or nine per month to perhaps two per month.

It wasn’t long ago when two launches per month was the norm, an indication of just how quickly SpaceX’s launch cadence has grown. Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center sit on adjoining property and share the same range on Florida’s east coast, so it is worth considering them a single spaceport. The last time the Florida spaceport did not lead the world in space launches was in 2015.

“From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship,” Dontchev wrote on X. “The West Coast team will continue regularly launching Starlink from Vandenberg.”

Yep, that’ll be louder — but everybody knows the real action will be in Louisiana, starting in 2029 or so.

CONSTITUENT SERVICE:

Mamdani posts emotional message mourning accused knife-wielding killer — and is slammed by victim’s family. Read today's cover here: https://t.co/sMkCyoVGws pic.twitter.com/maYoI95hTK

— New York Post (@nypost) August 28, 2026

A BRIDGE TOO FAR FOR SOME. MOST? For Midterms, Democrats Will Make an Extreme Effort to Sound Like Normal People.

CYBERSECURITY: ‘We have a limited window’: 116 companies, entities sign on to major AI cyber defense push.

Sophisticated AI models, capable of orchestrating agentic attacks in minutes, have upended the cyber industry in recent months, cementing the need for better security tools to combat mounting AI threats.

Open-source AI platform Hugging Face, which signed the letter, was recently at the center of a breach orchestrated by rogue OpenAI agents. The hack rattled the cyber and tech sector, raising questions over accelerating AI development.

Amid this backdrop, cybersecurity companies have skyrocketed in value as businesses recognize the security need and have managed to brush off earlier disruption concerns that rattled the broader software sector this year.

And sometimes they escape and attack without prompting.

RESIST: ‘Ceuta Doesn’t Surrender’: Locals Rise Up, Fight State-Sanctioned Muslim Invasion.

ICYMI: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

SHOOTING NEWS: Not That You Needed Another Reason to Love Dolly Parton, But… “A .38 pistol. I have a permit for it in Nashville. I just carry it for protection. I feel safer when I’ve got it. I just don’t like the idea of knowin’ I’m totally helpless. I’m always scared in a big city and New York was totally foreign to us.”

OH MY: Police Raid Ilhan Omar’s Son’s Home, Arrest Roommate With 10 Convictions.

HMM: Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations. “Boston Scientific said the cyberattack has affected its ability to ship and process orders, but has not said whether the disruption extends to customers with medical devices and implants.”

‘MURICA:

Guess which country is not a signatory to the Paris Declaration of 1856 that banned privateers!

You only get one guess. https://t.co/Ia6sM28Mrc

— Demiurgent🥃🖤 (@tr0g) August 26, 2026

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More on privateers here.

ISN’T THAT KIND OF WHERE HE STARTED? A Desperate El-Sayed Campaign Is Now Tapping the Old Soviet Propaganda Playbook.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS:

CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death https://t.co/L6M20jULjY pic.twitter.com/QwYd0ulhCC

— New York Post (@nypost) August 27, 2026

THEN DON’T VOTE (D): Majority of voters concerned with rise of socialism, communism.

LET’S DO THIS:

Prize courts? For real, prize courts? https://t.co/fJF1raUVm0 pic.twitter.com/BZ4iRGIpjC

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 27, 2026

“Legally uncertain,” really? Congress granting letters of marque are authorized by the Constitution, and sea prizes go back centuries further.

FOR ONCE, IT ISN’T ABOUT JOE BIDEN: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ Really ‘Hasan Piker: The Movie?’

Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing a healthcare CEO by shooting him from behind. The murder stained the nation’s soul, in part, because so many Americans rallied behind the alleged assassin.

They even made a musical about him.

Now, Hollywood is doing more than evoking that horrific crime. It’s tapping into a DSA-style assault on capitalism via “How to Rob a Bank.”

Hollywood seems determined not to learn.

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

HILARIOUS 😂

Woman MOCKS Lindsay Clancy supporters with extreme accuracy‼️

This is the funniest most spot on 🎯 video you will see all day.

Mockery is the most effective way to battle back against the insanity. pic.twitter.com/ac4RmvP76p

— Cinema Shogun (@CinemaShogun) August 26, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa, HAMAS, and the IRGC Have Some Unsavory Friends in Common. “Rose City Antifa and its fellow travelers and hangers-on, for years, have attempted to create a hacking collective in Portland to infiltrate local tech companies and hijack those companies that do national security-level work. It’s unclear if they succeeded, but the news from the State Department about working with the Italy-based hackers’ collective shows that the group cobbled together the technological superstructure to allow these anti-Western anarchists to operate and organize while remaining undetected.”

MONORAIL! Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?

You might remember Austin’s light rail boondoggle, which is now scaled back, behind schedule, and very possibly illegal. (For the current status on that project, see here.)

Now more Austin elites, in the form of the Travis County Commissioner’s Court (an organization so far in the shadow of the Austin City Council that I didn’t previously have a tag for them) has funded the study of a high speed rail line between Austin and San Antonio, the price tag for which would be a staggering $13.5 Billion.

Get your act together, Austin — this is piker-level grifting. California is spending 10 times that much on a rail line that doesn’t even connect the two big cities it’s supposed to connect.

LOOKS LIKE A GOOD READ:

"To be published soon—and banned [by the academic left] in a classroom near you!" @mboudry's defense of…liberalism. https://t.co/sbPn7a0Z3V

— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 27, 2026

20 CANADIANS WERE MURDERED IN THOSE TERRORIST ATTACKS: Canadian Broadcasting Instructs Staff Not to Refer to the 9/11 Attacks As ‘Terrorism.’

HEALTH: FDA approves breakthrough drug to treat advanced pancreatic cancer. “A late-stage clinical trial with 500 patients showed that the median overall survival nearly doubled to more than 13 months versus a median survival of about 6.7 months for those being treated with standard chemotherapy.”

MAKE GIVING AMERICAN KIDS STARTER JOBS GREAT AGAIN:

They clubs used to hire college and high school kids.

They don't need to have foreigners to operate. It is a choice. https://t.co/ElIAuXBp00

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 27, 2026

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Race Hustlers Redux: How Low Can the Grievance Grifters Go?