NEWS YOU CAN USE: Thinking About Buying a Silencer, SBR, SBS or AOW Now? This is What You Need to Know.

HMM: We smell different as we age. Here’s why. An odor-producing molecule 2-nonenal is only part of the story.

I DON’T REALLY TRUST THEM: NOAA predicts potentially historic El Nino, with major influence on weather.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Brain Scans Reveal Dogs Can Tell When Humans Are Angry, Sad or Afraid.

SADLY, THEY’RE NOT ENDORSING CAPTAIN CRUNCH: Dietitians say these are the 5 healthiest cereals to start your day with.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Often Should You Change Your Toothbrush? It’s Probably Sooner Than You Think.

SHE’S THE HEROINE WE WANT, AND THE HEROINE WE NEED:

Only Sophie Cunningham could go from playing a Fever game to randomly showing up at a bar and singing “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” with the fans. 🥰🇺🇸

She’s truly the freaking best. ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/FSvsnUOjPZ

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) August 15, 2026

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second Amendment could include owning cannons, heavily armed ships: UPenn law professor.

Endorsed.

START FILING RICO CHARGES: Trump DOJ intensifies push to stop tuition discounts for illegal aliens, keep Harvard accountable for campus anti-Semitism.

CHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOL SOUNDS AWFUL: Shot: Dissenting Parents’ Defamation Claim Over School’s Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward. “The Turpins allege that Charlotte Latin and Baldecchi made false statements [to third parties] about the contents of the [Turpins’] PowerPoint presentation [that the Turpins delivered at the meeting]—specifically, that the PowerPoint contained the racist assertion that minority students and faculty at the school ‘have not earned their positions and honors’ and that those minority students and faculty were ‘not up to the merit of the school’ like the white students and faculty.”

Chaser: Fraud Claim Over “No Blowback” Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children’s Expulsions, Can Go Forward. “Here, the complaint alleges that Charlotte Latin promised the Turpins there would be no “blowback” or “retaliation” against them or their children if they met with school leadership to discuss their concerns; that this promise was false and, from the beginning, Charlotte Latin intended to deceive the Turpins and lure them to the meeting in order to create a pretext for expelling the children; that the Turpins believed Charlotte Latin’s promise and spoke openly about their concerns because they believed the school would not use those discussions as the pretextual grounds to expel the children; that the school, in that same meeting, expelled the children, as they intended from the outset, despite promising the Turpins they would not do so; and that the school’s deceit caused significant damage to the Turpins.”

HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BEEN A TOXIC FORCE IN THE PAST HALF CENTURY: Democrats Cannot Escape Their Overeducated Socialist Wing.

LEAVE NO AMERICAN BEHIND: Trump announces return of Kevin Rideout, a Christian missionary pilot who was captured by Islamists last year.

#JOURNALISM: Watch: NBC Broadcasts Dead Air – Twice – As Literally Speechless Election Analyst Learns Results Are Missing from 5 of 9 USB Drives in Blue City.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER: Abdul El-Sayed To Headline Islamic Event Alongside Pakistani Cleric Who Forced His 13-Year-Old Niece Into Marriage, Was Denounced for ‘Pedophilic Rhetoric.’

THE LIBRARIAN OF CELAENO: “With the people I encounter in my daily life, the supposition seems to be that words are words, and that reading on the internet is categorically the same thing as reading books. I disagree profoundly.”

THIS IS TRUE, OF COURSE:

to observe the obvious: no non-black academic would have gotten away with such fraud. if there was a white academic that claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days it would have been mocked too https://t.co/ZdOSP9AySl

— Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ (@razibkhan) August 14, 2026

Related:

“Mistakes”

Bitch, this is exactly why this happened.

They weren’t mistakes. They were lies. Lies that would have stopped ANYONE who wasn’t a DEI poster boy from advancing this high in academia.

YOU did this. YOU. https://t.co/s3Ra8m51YQ

— RBe (@RBPundit) August 14, 2026

I think what happened to Jason Arday is tragic and heartbreaking, but this counterfactual did actually take place in the United States, involving a professor and right-wing jokester who I became friends with over the years of having to defend his free speech rights. Mike Adams… https://t.co/xB2BsSxVgi

— Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) August 14, 2026

Except that Mike Adams was lynched for telling the truth, not disgraced by lying.

More:

Suicidal Empathy, indeed. It is tragic but this is what happens when you allow a complete breakdown of reality, meritocracy, and truth because the perpetrator of the fraud was of a "marginalized class." It was precisely the token racism of the white progressives that allowed… https://t.co/NUfF1DU6c1

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 14, 2026

No one should have made Jason Arday an emblem of institutional virtue. Elevating him so far beyond what he could reasonably manage set the stage for a cruel collapse. It is profoundly sad that it ended this way. https://t.co/qpWz5ESfTU

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) August 14, 2026

“Though he is responsible for his deceit, I feel the greatest blame lies with the University that advanced him beyond anything that made sense.”

What Tunku said. https://t.co/isa6qEemsN

— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) August 15, 2026

Yeah. But guess who they will blame. The handwringing, sanctimonious, accusatory op-eds are being penned as we speak.

Poor lad was hounded to death by the far right.

But yeah. His blood is on the hands of the woke crowd that fell for his blatant, absurd lies.

I wish he had… https://t.co/qn7bHfLWwy

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026

I AGREE: Let the IDF Win. “Without exception, the soldiers I spoke with also criticized what they see as overly restrictive rules of engagement that unnecessarily endanger their lives. In their view, these policies stem either from concerns about international political pressure-particularly from the United States-or from placing excessive emphasis on the welfare of enemy civilians at the expense of Israel’s own troops, who are not a far-removed army, but everyone’s husband, fathers and sons.”

Their guidance should be Curtis LeMay, Arthur Harris, and William Tecumseh Sherman.

NOT AN ACCIDENT: Virginia’s Democrats show us how to wreck a state in 5 easy steps.

SPACE LAW:

The Artemis Accords quietly flipped the script from space is a shared resource no one can develop to go settle and use it responsibly. Best thing to happen to space law in decades.

— Blaze (@Blaze_R935) August 14, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: Who could replace White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt?

AND ANSWERED:

LEFTISTS ARE ALWAYS COOKING THE BOOKS:

MASSIVE SCANDAL UNFOLDING AT NASHVILLE, TN SCHOOLS

ANOTHER teacher says she was ordered to FABRICATE grades to give a passing grade to failing students

The school then SUSPENDED her after she REFUSED to skew the numbers.

What is going in @MetroSchools?! https://t.co/DtjNpce83m pic.twitter.com/GclbRo5XFO

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 14, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

WE LIVE IN AMAZING TIMES:

I never expected to be as enthused as I am now about this whole trans thing. https://t.co/WkgaP3UxxE

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026

Well put.

Bad news, they’ll never acknowledge it. https://t.co/4zKWdXaa73

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 15, 2026

WELL, GOOD: NASA’s canceled lunar space station tech will help build the Artemis moon base.

WELL, GOOD: First-of-Its-Kind Trial Against Food Allergies Yields ‘Exciting’ Results.