THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE, I’M GONNA LET IT SHINE: The Power of Sunlight: Another Payment Processor Changes its Tune After Anti-Gun Discrimination is Exposed.

IT RARELY ENDS WELL FOR MALES: Desert tarantulas prepare for sex and death at Zion National Park.

WELL, GOOD: Fishermen missing for 5 days found alive floating on cooler in Pacific.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Chang’e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history.

CHANGE:

This is terrific. As I wrote last year in @CivitasOutlook, “One of the underappreciated aspects of what’s gone wrong [in higher ed], especially with law schools, is accreditation. Analyzing the rules governing legal education may not be as attention-grabbing as showing how… https://t.co/Ot9RqoW0Ld

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) August 21, 2026

SECURITY DOING ITS JOB: Invited media and military members held at gunpoint at Space Force base in California.

STANDING UP TO DISCRIMINATION: Justice Department investigates College of William & Mary over alleged ‘race-based’ scholarships.

EVERYTHING IS STUPID: Amherst professor’s forthcoming book argues Asian American success is tied to ‘white supremacy.’

NOBODY TELL ANN ALTHOUSE: Important thoughts about men wearing shorts to the office. “Let’s acknowledge what this is really about: the overwhelming advantage women have in the workplace over the summer months. Sure, women have endured countless millennia of violence and misogyny and discrimination — but sundresses are a godsend for the summer and men do not really have an comparable article of clothing. The fairer sex clearly has a sartorial advantage and this cannot stand is all I’m saying here.”

The A/C was partially out in my law school earlier this week, but luckily the floor with my office and classrooms wasn’t on the dead circuit. I threw shorts and a t-shirt in my car just in case. I’ve taught in those a couple of times in the past. Improvise, adapt, and overcome!

But I don’t think most people want to look at most men’s calves.

THEY ALWAYS TURN ON FREE SPEECH: In Wake of Arday Scandal, European Elite Institutions Turn on Free Speech Instead of Reforming.

MORE DEI DESTRUCTION: Simon & Schuster’s Disgrace.

WELL, GOOD:

Something big is about to happen with deportations in America. You should be ready for this…

I just spoke with a senior DHS official. They shared deportation numbers with me that frankly stunned me.

+27,000 deportations. Last week.

+3,600 a day average.

Tracking for 1.4… pic.twitter.com/FBKboHnmt4

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 19, 2026

Key bit: “DHS tells me blue states are quietly and very secretly working with the Trump administration to assist in the mass deportation of criminals. The criminal alien issue has become so “politically toxic” and “costly” that Democrat Governors have given the green light to Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in major blue cities to drop their illegals off with undercover ICE for removal. It’s happening. You just don’t see it.”

Related:

The Clinton Gun ban was just 22 years ago. Pistol brace BS is dead. Tax stamps are dead. FRTs are plentiful and legal. The NFA is hanging by a thread. The border is on absolute lockdown. We’re deporting ~50,000 illegals a month. And now TPS is gone. And you’re blackpilling?

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 20, 2026

I LOVE THIS IDEA:

Cofnas should set up a massively crowd-funded NGO fully dedicated to rooting out academic plagiarism and incompetence. https://t.co/0aZA6PHFxR

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 20, 2026

IT’S NOT 2020 ANYMORE: Alex Vindman Exposes the Trump Resistance Delusion.

OPEN THREAD: I want to see your best work here.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Mysterious Russian ‘space activity’ causes US Air Force flight to Antarctica to turn around: report.

21ST CENTURY SCIENCE: Unprecedented: Scientists Have Built Miniature Brains That Experience The Passage Of Time.

WELL, GOOD: New Injectable Hydrogel Could Transform Osteoarthritis Treatment.

MOST PEOPLE WILL DO BETTER, IF THEY LIVE MORE LIKE GYM BROS: Creatine Isn’t Just for Gym Bros: Why More Women Are Taking a Second Look.

TO BE FAIR, MOST THINGS ARE WAY COOLER THAN A MINIVAN: 2029 Tesla That’s “Way Cooler Than a Minivan”: Everything We Know About What That Even Means.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Shot Placement: Is the Pelvic Girdle Really the Best Self-Defense Solution?

SAY A PRAYER OF THANKS TO ST. WILLIS CARRIER, THE INVENTOR OF AIR CONDITIONING: How Americans stayed cool before air conditioning: From sitting on smelly ice to sleeping on the roof.

WELL, GOOD: New Melanoma Vaccine Shows Promise In Fighting Cancer, Preventing Recurrence.

IT’S AN ECOSYSTEM: Your mattress is probably crawling with thousands of dust mites. Here’s how to fix that.

SOME OF MY FRIENDS, INCLUDING DALE AMON AND JIM BENNETT, WHOSE WORK HAS OFTEN GRACED THIS PAGE, ARE IN THE SPACE DATA BUSINESS. Unlike Elon, they aren’t providing AI data centers but safe networked black box data storage in space industries. Their company is Immortal Data.