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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
August 21, 2026
WE’VE KNOWN THIS FOR DECADES: Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover a New Organ Hiding in The Skull.
THE E.U.’S MAIN FUNCTION IS TO ENABLE AND DEFEND ESTABLISHMENT WRONGDOING: Arday Affair Erupts Into U.S.-Belgium Diplomatic Dispute.
It’s a big deal that the U.S. is objecting:
This may seem like small ball but you need to grasp what a seismic shift this is
No previous GOP administration would have ever touched Cofnas with a ten foot poll but the Trump admin is offering a full throated defense in the name of free speech
In politics this is a pitch you… https://t.co/Iq0jpiA4sq
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) August 21, 2026
MICROBIOME NEWS: This Natural Gut Compound Could Point to Better Treatments for IBD.
CRAZY WHITE LIBERAL WOMEN ARE A TOXIN TO SOCIETY: White, liberal female Lindsay Clancy supporters are proving why men are right to want to remain single.
THEY ADD SCREENS BECAUSE THEY’RE CHEAP: Automakers Keep Adding Screens, But Buyers Want Something Else.
CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT:
EXCLUSIVE: Fauci Text Implicates Biden Task Force
“I’m sending this via text messaging to avoid any FOIA issues.” -Michael Osterholm COVID-19 Advisory Board
Obtained by @ChuckGrassley via @HHS:
– Apparent admission Osterholm @mtosterholm is creating a federal record
-… pic.twitter.com/5E46HZ9YR9— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 19, 2026
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.
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.
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.
August 20, 2026
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