SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT:
In the most predictable update of all time, it turns out the sweet, misunderstood boy that the Democrats have been defending, is in fact a complete piece of shit who hits women, got in fights regularly, wanted to lick a victims blood off his knife and threatened to kill people.… https://t.co/115KWVcZLV
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 21, 2026
MAYBE, BUT DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Believe They Can Take Iowa and Texas Senate Seats. Are They Delusional?
THEY’RE SERIOUS: Islamic advocacy group demands James O’Keefe be prosecuted after team dressed as Muslims to expose Minnesota elections. “CAIR-Minnesota called on authorities to investigate after O’Keefe and members of his team entered Minneapolis polling locations during the Aug. 11 primary wearing traditional Muslim clothing and using obviously fake accents to test how election workers would handle attempts to register voters through Minnesota’s vouching process. The demand comes after Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon similarly said law enforcement was reviewing the conduct and warned that the participants may have placed themselves in ‘legal jeopardy.’ O’Keefe and his team are undercover journalists with a long history of exposing fraud and corruption.”
It’s Minnesota, so who knows what will happen.
HARDEST WORKING MAN IN WASHINGTON: Cocaine Networks and Communists — Marco’s Been Busy Today.
IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY: The Disconnect Between Some Military Families and Their Service Member’s Actual Job Is Stunning.
I have, as you might have noticed, pretty much stayed out of the brouhaha over the USS Abraham Lincoln and the other ships keeping watch and running operations in the Middle East.
Mostly because, in my unfiltered honesty, coupled with my personal experience, I haven’t much patience with the whining coming from the junior sailors on board or, frankly, the families who, to excuse a lot of it, oft times don’t really know any better. All they are hearing is that life sucks in every direction, and they hear it often enough, thanks to the age we live in, that they grow convinced that this is something out of the ordinary and their child or young spouse/father/wife/child/whatever is suffering some extraordinary deprivations and conditions that have never before been experienced in the history of modern seafaring.
None of which is true, but these experts would beg to differ, bolstered by a frenzied flood of press reports all feeding on anything that makes the Trump administration and Pete Hegseth’s War Department look really bad, with as much fervor as great whites on a dead humpback.
It’s an easy, lazy target filled with all the ingredients for a drama soup.
I have to admit, I have seen this dependent/family v duty conflict coming for a long time, and the innerwebs age has only exacerbated the situation.
Read the whole thing.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
New York Times loses defamation suit, ordered to pay $9.25M to former Alabama basketball player https://t.co/qqRps9TsWc pic.twitter.com/GGOYw8K351
— New York Post (@nypost) August 21, 2026
NICE, BUT JUST TAKE THE RED PILL ALREADY: Democrat Voter and Rabbi Will Not Vote for El-Sayed, Says He’ll Support Republican.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
The irony of The Russiagaters being foreign-funded themselves and pleading the Fifth when asked about it https://t.co/fbnajZSoPx
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 20, 2026
ONCE AGAIN, REALITY OUTPACES THE BEE:
🚨🇦🇺NEWS: Melbourne Airport has been slammed after it was revealed it has Unisex Toilets but Gender Segregated Islamic Prayer Rooms
So the only women who get any privacy are Muslims pic.twitter.com/Jv7UVOcXdG
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 21, 2026
THEY NEED TO CUT THAT OUT: Republicans Are Pandering to Data Center Hysteria — and Helping China Win the AI War.
NICE WORK: Florida State U. removes ‘correct language’ threat after College Fix inquiry.
FIRE’s Director of Policy Reform, Laura Beltz, told The Fix “academic freedom affords faculty members a great degree of deference in how they govern their classroom” even if this includes “actions that typically run counter to free speech principles in other contexts.”
For example, Beltz described how a student “levying ad hominem attacks at other students during class and preventing the class from reaching the educational objectives of [a] discussion” could reasonably be disciplined by the instructor.
Beltz’s main free speech concern over the Civil Interaction section of the original syllabus is its potential to be unevenly applied based on viewpoint.
“Faculty certainly can’t discriminate against students, so to the extent a rule like this is applied to restrict some viewpoints but not others — not to shape class discussion and meet educational goals but instead to only shut down or grade speech based on viewpoint — that would be problematic,” she said.
Indeed. And after everything we’ve seen the last couple of decades, it’s the safe assumption that viewpoint discrimination is the likely goal.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Revisiting AOC ’28 After DSA Commie Uprising. “The ‘insatiable media interest’ is AOC’s gargantuan strength if she decides to take the big leap. While the flying monkeys in the mainstream media are incurious about any Dem’s faux pas, they’re positively charmed by everything that Squeaky gets monumentally wrong.”
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT? ‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit. “The incident shows that artificial intelligence has made its way into courtrooms not just in AI-generated legal briefings, hallucinated cases, and adversarial ‘prompt injections,’ but in expert witness testimonies. Court transcripts, deposition documents, and discovery records shared with 404 Media show extensive AI use in an extremely high profile case, where multiple people died and hundreds of millions of dollars in total liability are at stake in ongoing litigation about the explosion. The case also shows that the specific prompts used to create this type of expert testimony can be discoverable during a case, and that those prompts can be quite embarrassing.”
He reportedly was paid $90,000 for his “efforts.”
REMINDER: LEFTIES DECAMPED TWITTER FOR BLUESKY BECAUSE THE CLIMATE ON TWITTER WAS TOO TOXIC.
A single day of Charlie Kirk Bluesky commentary. A thread.
Retard right: “Israel and TPUSA killed Charlie Kirk.”
The left says these things openly and loudly, daily. Motive and Occam’s Razor, folks. Nobody wants us dead like the left – and it’s not particularly close. pic.twitter.com/8JJehLV1hz
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) August 19, 2026
Disturbing but enlightening stuff.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket.
The Zhuque-3, or ZQ-3, rocket lifted off from a commercial launch zone at China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 7:35 pm EDT (23:35 UTC) Tuesday, about an hour after sunrise Wednesday at the spaceport in the Gobi Desert. Nine methane-fueled engines powered the 216-foot-tall (66-meter) rocket on a course southeast from Jiuquan, then the rocket’s upper stage took over the task of placing a single satellite into orbit.
The rocket’s first stage, made of stainless steel, soared to the edge of space, then maneuvered toward a prepared landing zone some 240 miles (390 kilometers) downrange, settling to a propulsive touchdown on four extendable landing legs. LandSpace, founded in 2015, declared the mission a total success.
“This mission marks China’s first-ever successful recovery attempt of the first stage of an orbital-class launch vehicle using landing legs, and China’s first successful booster recovery on land,” LandSpace said in a statement. “It is a pivotal flight test for Zhuque-3 as it transitions from the technological demonstration and verification phase toward the engineering application phase of reusability.”
That it took the Chinese — the world’s masters of high-speed copy & paste — a decade just to make their first two catches is a testament to just how difficult this is.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE:
She lost everything after supporting Israel: 'To be a good Arab and a good Muslim, part of it is to hate the Jews'
Within five hours, Dalia Ziada was forced to flee Egypt, leaving her family and homeland behind. The Arab street's response to Oct. 7 exposed a reality she had not…
— Dalia Ziada (@daliaziada) August 20, 2026
RELAX, IT’S ONLY BROCCOLI: America’s favorite vegetable under major threat of looming California droughts.
How did broccoli get to be our most popular vegetable? I don’t even recognize it as food.
STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM:
WATCH: A humanoid robot training for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing runs too fast, fails to stop, slams into a safety cushion, and breaks at the waist pic.twitter.com/WEHdYCiPlO
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 20, 2026
This system, too:
An Amazon customer in Texas was not enthused when her first drone-delivered order was dropped into her swimming pool. After hearing the loud buzzing of the drone arriving, she ran outside to record the delivery, and to her surprise, it landed in her pool. pic.twitter.com/6TIcrJIVAR
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) August 19, 2026
THAT SUCKS: NASA calls off mission to save Swift Observatory telescope in space.
The announcement came down on Wednesday after an attempt to use the LINK spacecraft ran into altitude control issues, NASA and Katalyst Space said in a press release. The spacecraft was meant to raise NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to a higher altitude.
LINK is still set to attempt rendezvous and proximity operations with the Swift Observatory.
“NASA should be willing to move quickly and take smart risks when the potential return is worth it, and that is exactly what we did with this mission,” Jared Isaacman, NASA administrator, said in a statement. “This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting.”
It was a bit of a longshot, but Isaacman was right to light a fire under NASA.
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