SPENDING YOUR MONEY TO GET OTHER PEOPLE TO SPEND MORE OF YOUR MONEY: FCC visits Denver to tout free internet subsidy that 80% of eligible Coloradans are ignoring. “The federal Affordable Connectivity Program provides $30 to $75 a month to low-income households to pay for broadband. Colorado’s 20% participation rate is lower than the nation’s.”

PJ MEDIA VIP ROUNDUP: Don’t forget that VODKAPUNDIT promo code if you’ve been thinking of joining us.

Matt Margolis: Dems Run Using GOP Messaging to Win in November. “One thing this tells you is that these Democrats and those who are advising them realize that the abortion issue is not going to carry them across the finish line.”

Rick Moran: ‘Fact-Checkers’ Working Overtime to Give Cover to White House on IRS Expansion. “The media lies being told about IRS expansion are far more blatant and easily debunked — if anyone is bothering to fact-check the fact-checkers.”

Yours Truly: Who Tried to Murder ‘Putin’s Brain,’ Alexandr Dugin? “I think, kill, kill and kill. No more talk anymore. It is my opinion as a professor.”

UKRAINE WAR: Everything Is Blowing up Roses, Vital Antonovsky Bridge Cut. “Antonovsky Bridge, one of the Russian Army’s lifelines into occupied Kherson, was effectively knocked out of action in a perfectly timed missile strike — just one of many developments on an explosive day in the Ukraine War.”

MILBLOGGER LAUGHING WOLF PRESENTS Nuclear 201: Some History.

SHE UNDERWENT GEPHARDTIZATION: Stacey Abrams Was Against Abortion Until She Decided to Run for Office.

OUCH: Elon Musk Says Price of Tesla’s FSD Driver Assistance Software Is Rising. “After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th. Current price will be honored for orders made before Sept 5th, but delivered later.”

That’s up from $12,000.

MATT MARGOLIS: Judge Who Approved Mar-a-Lago Raid Makes HUGE Admission.

I WONDER HOW THIS WILL TURN OUT: Court Rules Man Who Identifies as Woman Must Be Allowed in Women’s Jail. “In a split decision on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ‘gender dysphoria’ is a protected class under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The court ruled that a male identifying as a female, named Williams, who was imprisoned in Fairfax County, Virginia should be housed with the female inmates, even though he retains male body parts.”

Related: Dr. Colin Wright suspended from Twitter for cartoon criticizing trans activism.

Here’s the cartoon that got him banned, appropriate to the 4th Circuit Court story.

DON’T UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP: That Insane Obama-Biden Iran Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time. “The Administration has dropped one crucial demand after another in pursuit of a deal, any deal with Iran, no matter how crazy or dangerous. Two of the most egregious retreats occurred in the last few days.”

AI IS PRETTY STUPID: Google AI flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids.

The main incident highlighted by The New York Times took place in February 2021, when some doctor’s offices were still closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As noted by the Times, Mark (whose last name was not revealed) noticed swelling in his child’s genital region and, at the request of a nurse, sent images of the issue ahead of a video consultation. The doctor wound up prescribing antibiotics that cured the infection.

According to the NYT, Mark received a notification from Google just two days after taking the photos, stating that his accounts had been locked due to “harmful content” that was “a severe violation of Google’s policies and might be illegal.”
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A Google spokesperson told the Times that Google only scans users’ personal images when a user takes “affirmative action,” which can apparently include backing their pictures up to Google Photos. When Google flags exploitative images, the Times notes that Google’s required by federal law to report the potential offender to the CyberTipLine at the NCMEC. In 2021, Google reported 621,583 cases of CSAM to the NCMEC’s CyberTipLine, while the NCMEC alerted the authorities of 4,260 potential victims, a list that the NYT says includes Mark’s son.

Mark ended up losing access to his emails, contacts, photos, and even his phone number, as he used Google Fi’s mobile service, the Times reports. Mark immediately tried appealing Google’s decision, but Google denied Mark’s request. The San Francisco Police Department, where Mark lives, opened an investigation into Mark in December 2021 and got ahold of all the information he stored with Google. The investigator on the case ultimately found that the incident “did not meet the elements of a crime and that no crime occurred,” the NYT notes.

That determination came after the police had been given access to virtually all of Mark’s digital life — a system ripe for abuse.

HE COULDN’T DO ANY WORSE: Biden Hasn’t Been Able to Free Brittney Griner. Maybe Dennis Rodman Can?

LOUISE PERRY: I’m 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation.

I used to believe the liberal narrative on the sexual revolution. As a younger woman, I held the same opinions as most other millennial urban graduates in the West. I conformed to the beliefs of my class.

Of course freedom is the goal, I thought. What women need is the freedom to behave as men have always behaved, enjoying all the pleasures of casual sex, porn, BDSM, and indeed any other sexual delight that the human mind can dream up. As long as everyone is consenting, what’s the problem?

I no longer believe any of this.

I’m not a religious conservative. I’m a feminist, and I’ve spent my entire professional life working on the issue of male violence against women—first in a rape crisis center, and later as a journalist and a media relations director for a legal campaign against sexual violence.

It’s precisely because I’m a feminist that I’ve changed my mind on sexual liberalism. It’s an ideology premised on the false belief that the physical and psychological differences between men and women are trivial, and that any restrictions placed on sexual behavior must therefore have been motivated by malice, stupidity or ignorance.

Read the whole thing.

FASTER, PLEASE: New CNN CEO Tells Employees, ‘You Might Not Like or Understand’ What’s Coming.

COLORADO: Edgewater bans open carry of firearms; effort to cite ‘white supremacy’ in ordinance fails. “I would propose the language say, ‘Whereas the city council finds that open carrying of firearms, during the times of civil protest and unrest tends to exacerbate rather than ameliorate the harm of white supremacy and the potential for violence and death.’”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dem Candidates Don’t Want the Biden Stink Anywhere Near Them. “Imagine sharing a campaign stage with the President of the United States and having the moment where he gets your name wrong and then turns around to shake hands with someone who isn’t there captured and shared on social media. It’s not just the Biden policies that Democrats want to distance themselves from, it’s the crazy demented uncle in the Oval Office who they want to stay far away from them.”

PRIORITIES: NYC Grants $6 Million in Aid to Bused-In Economic Migrants. “Meanwhile, the city’s officials also wanted to provide nearly 6,000 luxury hotel rooms to migrants who rode the buses from Texas.”

ERASING HISTORY: New Jersey Elementary School Ditches Founding Father From Its Name. “Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in South Orange, N.J. will rename itself for Delia Bolden, the first black female high school graduate in the area. The student body chose Bolden’s name from a list that included names of notable people with local connections and generic names not tied to a person.”

BLUE CITY BLUES: Another Day, Another Murderer Out On Bond. “In a sane county, being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm should be an immediate tip back to the slammer under Sec. 46.04 of the Texas penal code.”

IT’S A CONFIDENCE GAME: Guy Who Lied About Trump-Russia Evidence Is ‘Confident’ Garland Acted Appropriately on Mar-a-Lago Raid.

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT: Supporters defend Finnish PM Sanna Marin’s right to party after video leak.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Colorado is the nation’s cocaine use capital. “According to the survey, 2.24% of Colorado’s population aged 12 and older reported using cocaine in the past year. This puts Colorado first in the U.S., followed by New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and California.”

THE NEW ANTI-RACISM LOOKS AN AWFUL LOT LIKE THE OLD RACISM: Berkeley ‘Person of Color House’ Bans White Guests From the Common Area.

LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE:

Here’s the actual PDF, at least until Boston Children’s scrubs it.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Huge Mob Flashes California 7-Eleven and Picks It Clean.

FROM PRO-CHOICE TO PRO-ABORTION TO ANTI-BIRTH: Google Employee Union Petitions Search Engine To Suppress Results for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers.