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August 31, 2026
WHEN THE INSTAWIFE WENT INTO LABOR SHE SWORE IT WAS GAS. I KNEW BETTER. I Was Told My Pregnancy Pain Was ‘Just Gas’—It Was Actually a Rare and Dangerous Condition.
CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT: New Fauci Docs Prove He Repeatedly Told People to Delete Emails He Sent Them.
GOODBYE, DOLLY: My latest Substack essay is up.
IF ONLY THERE HAD BEEN SOME SORT OF WARNING, SOMEHOW:
This is absolutely something that could happen. Colleges are in a triple bind: the Trump admin is threatening their funding (and capping govt student loans), the population of college-age people is starting what will be a sharp decline, and parents have never been more skeptical… https://t.co/S1zDBXxmay
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) August 31, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Next step: Student debt relief, paid for by the universities themselves, and bankruptable debt, to shut off the money spigot for the sheltered ideological bubbles of higher ed.
— Time Traveling for Truth (@traveling_truth) August 27, 2026
More on the Anaconda Strategy here.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Universities suffer the consequences of policies and politics that they supported. https://t.co/gbty5726pE
— @instapundit (@instapundit) August 30, 2026
Related:
Reminder: Temple is looking really shaky too https://t.co/BDyeFsur24
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) August 30, 2026
WHAT, DO THEY THINK IT’S STILL 2020? University of Alaska Anchorage screens Master of Social Work applicants for ‘anti-racism’ commitment.
Also, loyalty oaths are unconstitutional.
THAT TRUTH IS NOW OBSOLETE. THE PARTY HAS NOW DECLARED A NEW TRUTH.
I think that I would have more sympathy here if virtually the entire political left had not spent years lambasting the President as a racist for calling Haiti a "shithole," organizing single women's tours to the place, and literally running around in shirts reading "Haiti Is… https://t.co/PfCsknzhvh pic.twitter.com/8H4ZPhzfLq
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 30, 2026
WAR ON MEN:
For decades we told men to step aside. We treated fatherhood as optional and masculinity as a problem to be fixed. We ignored boys falling behind in school, mental health, work, and hope for the future. We gave them almost no public encouragement and a great deal of shaming.
We… pic.twitter.com/pRtwK9pRso
— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) August 30, 2026
Related:
The Handmaid’s Tale the Left wants you to worry about vs. the Handmaid’s Tale the Left is helping to make happen. pic.twitter.com/f0eo1MhxhF
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 30, 2026
NOT BY ACCIDENT, BUT BY DESIGN: The England I Knew Is Gone.
CHINA SYNDROME:
So it turns out China was building a hydro electric facility by a glacier and all the construction caused a portion of the glacier to collapse, tumble down, and turn into a mudslide that killed like 2,500 Nepalese people.
But all you will hear about in the news is leftists… https://t.co/RsclO06tty
— bumbadum (@bumbadum14) August 30, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Syracuse is in trouble. They borrowed a half billion dollars to build new dorms and now enrollment is sliding.
“The problem with Syracuse is that the school thinks of itself as like an Ivy, but it’s not,” Tavares said. pic.twitter.com/YdETLlisPP
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) August 30, 2026
As InstaPundit readers know, Syracuse has been a dumpster fire for years.
August 30, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
GOODBYE, DOLLY: My latest Substack essay is up.
THE DEEP SEVENS AGAIN? Six Never-Before-Seen Mystery Structures Found Lurking Deep Inside The Earth.
THERE’S SOME SORT OF WEIRD PSYCHOSEXUAL DYNAMIC HERE:
Feminists love to talk about the "patriarchy" and how White men want them to live in Handmaid's Tale, and then immediately pander to the most patriarchal and restrictive system on earth. https://t.co/ssBgjmMdag
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) August 30, 2026
Hey, I’m still hot. Suck it up, millennials.
CHANGE:
The U.S. Army dropping the M7 rifle for the shorter, lighter XM8 carbine just confirmed what every infantryman already knew:
An 80,000 PSI high-pressure 6.8mm cartridge out of an 10.9-inch short barrel is pure tactical cognitive dissonance.
You get:
• Insane muzzle blast &…— Ammo Lab (@ammolab1) August 27, 2026