“MORE TREES, LESS CRIME” DOESN’T REALLY SEEM TO ADD UP: The Ivy League Solution: Plant More Trees to Reduce ‘Gun Violence.’

“WELL, YEAH,” SAY AMERICAN LEFTIES:

Tom Homan on anti-ICE Democrats:

"So you want to abolish an agency that found 151,000 children. You want to abolish an agency that seized enough fentanyl to kill every American three times over again. You want to abolish an agency that is attacking sex trafficking" pic.twitter.com/PTLEAt7Mrc

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 17, 2026

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS HAPPENED FOR TWO DECADES: ICE Helps Catch Illegal Alien Who Voted for 20 Years.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA Administrator ‘extremely confident’ in Artemis 3 mission in 2027. “The Artemis 3 mission will begin with the launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, which will send a test version of its Blue Moon Mark 2 lander into low Earth orbit. That will be followed days later by the launch of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, which will rendezvous and dock with Blue Origin’s vehicle.”

FROM THE ONGOING “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?” CHRONICLES:

By the way: Osama bin Laden’s letter was never “censored.”

TikTok just stopped pushing it to the top of the algorithm.

That’s what Greenwald and Carlson are mad about, because they hate America and love America’s enemies.

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) August 17, 2026

It helps to remember that Greenwald is a commie and Carlson is… whatever the hell he is now.

POP YOUR CORN: It’s Billionaire vs. Billionaire for the Future of California. “Disagreements between a couple of Google billionaires over how to best fight California’s so-called billionaire tax might just help the ballot initiative become law in November, according to a New York Post report this weekend — but there’s so much more to it than that.”

AND THIS IS AT BERKELEY: I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math.

I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble. Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school.

That is why this spring and summer, thousands of faculty members across all 10 UC campuses — including more than two-thirds of UC’s mathematics faculty — signed open letters urging the system to restore the SAT and ACT in admissions. Five Nobel laureates joined us, along with professors from across the university, including Beatriz Manz, Berkeley’s first Latina full professor.

We did so because what an admission letter is supposed to mean — that a student is ready to attend the school — no longer matches what we see in our classrooms.

Read the whole thing.

TO BE FAIR…:

CHROMOSOMES ARE NOW OFFENSIVE. WE’VE REACHED PEAK STUPIDITY. https://t.co/zN4RbXxihZ

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) August 17, 2026

…reality is offense to people living in denial of it.

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: The Policewoman Who Remembered Britain Was Still Britain.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: Recall Petition Filed Against Seattle’s Far Left Mayor Katie Wilson. “Certainly the current crop of far-left ‘Democratic Socialists’ mayors ruining American cities are not the sharpest knives in the drawer (though Zohran Mamdani seems to display the sort of unprincipled cunning exhibited by many confidence artists), but Seattle’s Katie Wilson, someone who was still being financially supported by her parents at age 43 when running for mayor, strikes one as possibly the very dullest in the lot. From refusing to investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers to encouraging capital flight from Seattle via a proposed ‘billionaire’s tax’ (‘I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are, like, super overblown. And if, you know, the ones that leave, like, bye!’), Wilson seems a particularly obtuse example of the breed. Now two Seattle citizens have filed a recall petition against her.”

THE BIDEN CABAL HANGOVER WILL LAST FOR YEARS:

🚨ARRESTED AGAIN🚨

A drug trafficker who was pardoned by Joe Biden over fentanyl-trafficking charges has been arrested AGAIN for allegedly selling fentanyl.

Walter Lee Muhammad made an appearance in federal court on possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances… pic.twitter.com/xAImTtu53M

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) August 17, 2026

KDJ FILLING IN FOR KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: There Goes the Neighborhood — A Chinese Sniper Just Moved Where? “In a move that seems far too stupid to be real, Philip Qiu, a man who is ‘linked’ to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), bought an historic building roughly 650 feet from the White House. The money, $8.4 million, came from a family foundation.”

BECAUSE OF COURSE: DSA Praises Fidel Castro in 100th Birthday Tribute, Denounces Marco Rubio as ‘Genocidal.’

The Democratic Socialists of America website called deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a “stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle and self-determination,” while denouncing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as genocidal.

In a tribute to Castro on what would have been his 100th birthday Thursday, the DSA website commemorated the “historic significance of both this day and the man.”

The fast-growing socialist organization that’s made strong inroads in Democratic Party primary elections over the past year, said that they have “a long history of solidarity with the Cuban people, their revolution, and their self-determination.”

Any solidarity with their hunger, crushing poverty, or desire for American liberty?

HMM:

🚨 SPLC Had A Paid Informant inside INFOWARS that feed inside info to Sandy Hook Attorneys

This Is Plenty to Overturn Both Sandy Hook Default Judgements Against Alex Jones & Get Alex Jones New Trials in Texas and Connecticut, and Have the Attorneys Disbarred@RealAlexJones https://t.co/Arm6ZBTrNF pic.twitter.com/PnT9iYhbLY

— INFOWARS FAN (@InfoWars_tv) August 15, 2026

DON’T BET ON IT: Is Mark Cuban FINALLY Figuring Out His Side Is Nuts?

NOT EVEN A GENTLEMAN’S C: Harvard Professor Faces Backlash for Allegedly Using AI to Draft Anti-Trump Op-Ed.

A Harvard professor is facing scrutiny after critics alleged that a Financial Times opinion piece he authored criticizing President Trump was largely produced with artificial intelligence, with some online commentators dismissing it as “slop.”

The column, written by Ricardo Hausmann, a former Venezuelan government minister and Harvard Kennedy School academic, was published Thursday and has since been updated with an editor’s note from the FT.

“It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer draft of this column prior to submission to the FT and our own editorial involvement,” the note at the top of the article states.

“The FT editorial code of conduct specifically prohibits the use of AI in the writing process,” the statement adds.

The disclosure followed a wave of criticism on social media, where readers flagged the op-ed — which took aim at Trump’s tariffs — for prose they described as awkward and unnaturally polished.

“Gotta be the worst AI slop I’ve seen in a major publication,” one user wrote on X.

But did it contain any references to Madagascar?

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB:

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy,… pic.twitter.com/K4PHXZBbmG

— Documenting Saylor (@saylordocs) August 16, 2026

OH: Expert and FDA Commissioner Flagged Adverse COVID Shot Events for Fauci in Early 2021.

RACISM IS SUCH A RARE COMMODITY DOMESTICALLY THAT WE HAVE TO IMPORT IT:

Why are we bringing foreigners to our country to break our civil rights laws? https://t.co/ksyDWujl3d

— Katya Sedgwick (@KatyaSedgwick) August 16, 2026

HE’S JUST DOING THE HIT-AND-RUNS AMERICANS WON’T DO:

This story gets crazier. The Mayor of Lawrence, left court today in a Dodge Charger and rammed into another car and left the scene. Same Mayor that can't speak English, and stole $1.5M in covid money. https://t.co/kGWRp0O6o5 pic.twitter.com/JvoCF11yJo

— Lee Kuan Yimby (@LeeKuanYimby) August 15, 2026

Oh, and also the theft.

HE LEFT OUT “POWER MAD,” BUT YEAH:

In fairness, starting with the socialism, you already know you’re dealing mostly with low intelligence, low historical or geopolitical literacy, and basically bumper sticker levels of logic and reasoning. So there’s that.

At the higher levels, simple manipulative deception, but… https://t.co/h6KR5ibqFr

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026

THERE’S REALLY NO OTHER CONCLUSION TO DRAW — AND IT’S BEEN OBVIOUS FOR YEARS:

The British ruling class hates their own nation. https://t.co/TBZTabaU6j

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) August 15, 2026

TRANSPARENCY:

Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible https://t.co/eQMdoYlhkA

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 15, 2026

SPAIN: Forgot About Ceuta? These Latest Videos Look Pretty Third World.

OPERATION ECONOMIC FURY: US will hit Iran economically in ways ‘that have never been seen’ next week: ‘One-two punch.’