SCIENCE MARCHES ON: The FDA Just Approved The First US Freeze-Dried Plasma, Ready in Minutes.

SUGAR IS BAD: Less Sugar Early in Life Linked to Lower Dementia Risk Decades Later.

MEN’S MENTAL HEALTH: A therapist explains the surprising signs of depression in men — most people miss them completely.

CHEAP TRUCKS ARE GOING TO BE A THING AGAIN: Ford Fathom Features: What We Think the $30,000 Electric Truck Will Offer.

GOOD: ATF Director’s Friday Night Tweet Promises Jensen v. ATF NFA Guidance ‘As Soon As We Are Done.’

SCIENCE: Researchers discover why constipation is so common in astronauts.

THE ONLY FUN PART OF COMMUNISM IS WATCHING THIS REALIZATION SINK IN:

"Under Communism, everyone has a job". This is absolutely true.

Here's what else was true.

1) you were ASSIGNED your job AND the region for that job by the state (i.e., a bureaucraft). You were required to stay in your job at least 3 years.

2) After 3 years, if you wanted… pic.twitter.com/VjZFihYjhk

— Sandy Petersen 🪔 (@SandyofCthulhu) August 29, 2026

WE LIVE IN AMAZING TIMES: ‘Humongous’ marmot crowned winner in inaugural Fat Marmot Week contest.

GET ENOUGH SLEEP: Does Lack of Sleep Cause Weight Gain? Yes—About 9 Pounds Per Year.

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

BOO HOO: Columbia faculty member says she felt ‘unsafe’ after confronting IDF veterans posing as pro-Palestinian protesters.

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.

CDR SALAMANDER: Understand Anthropic vs. Department of War: Emil Michael clears the air.

HAHA: Google Adopts Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Name as Canada Dispute Grows.

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.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.