KIDS, DON’T COUNT ON THIS WORKING FOR YOU: Anne Hathaway’s ‘buzzer beater’ pregnancy feels so relatable—I’m expecting my first baby at 44.

REVIEW: Tested: 2026 Lexus LX700h Overtrail Arrives Locked and Loaded.

SO SIMPLE: One Weird Trick For Reducing Crime on Your Violence-Plagued Urban Transit System.

WELL, GOOD: A Common Cholesterol Treatment May Also Remove PFAS And Microplastics From Blood.

WHITE PRIVILEGE. SHOT: Fresh jalapeños linked to Salmonella outbreak in 27 states, and a recall is underway.

CHASER:

Report: White People Completely Unaffected By Jalapeño Recall https://t.co/SwcKeQXJuD

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 10, 2026

(Although the notion that white people don’t like hot food is basically BS. Come to the south and walk through the Ace Hardware grilling isle with spice rubs labeled “Ass Prolapse” and “Esophagus Roaster” and the like. Now moving to New England there was a distinct lack of spice, it’s true.)

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Researchers discover your dog can tell if you’re sad or afraid.

I HAD MISSED THIS LAST WEEK: HHS Decertifies Kentucky Organ Procurement Organization to Protect Patients, Restore Trust. Among the problems: “That some potential donors may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious questions.”

This is a problem I wrote about a year ago.

IT’S A GOOD COMBINATION: Walking is one of the best exercises for heart health — but experts say strength training matters too.

THIS IS A PHENOMENON I’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT FOR GOING ON TWO DECADES:

This is a story about a college lost down the rabbit hole of performative progressivism. But at its heart, it’s about labor exploitation, the hell we put contingent profs through, and how the collapse of the tenure-system paved the way for cowardice and pseudo-radical groupthink. https://t.co/CmAd0zJrRe pic.twitter.com/nhniuUNFyu

— Tyler Austin Harper (@Tyler_A_Harper) August 10, 2026

I linked it earlier, but if you missed it here’s the underlying article in The Atlantic, which is excellent.

IT’S ALL A PSYOP, ISN’T IT?

“Grandpa, I just don’t understand. How was it that given how powerful the United States was, China was able to overtake us and dominate the world?”

“Well.. it all started when they examined the whiteness of physics" https://t.co/VAOBb7cGvq

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 11, 2026

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Gen Z discovers a shocking new dating approach: “SABSing is as simple as going out in public and presenting yourself as open and approachable.”

I know, crazy, right? But to be fair, it’s harder for a generation that dresses like they’ve never worn clothes before.

AND YET:

It's kind of a domestic Death to America theme. https://t.co/WAnCMjZoU6

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 11, 2026

WHEN I SAY “DON’T GET COCKY,” I MEAN IT:

OF COURSE HE DID: As undergrad, Abdul El-Sayed protested conservative students’ event condemning radical Islamic terrorism.

THE LEFT IS ALL HATE: Carnegie Mellon cracks down on Fence vandalism following anti-Israel messages.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Lefties like AOC need to answer some questions before we move on from ‘Woke 1.’

Related: Far-left wants you to forget their ‘hot takes’ burned cities to the ground.

ME OVER AT LAW & LIBERTY: Sullivan Revisited: The outcome of the famous libel case rests on fabricated legal foundations.

TAKE A LESSON:

Remember this when someone says voting doesn’t matter. https://t.co/EHcx485l2h

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) August 10, 2026

Flashback: Too-close Tennessee election warns GOP: Damning the left isn’t enough.

FLASHBACK:

THE COMEDY CONTINUES:

You’re going to have to explain the difference between a man saying he’s a woman and a man saying he’s a woman. https://t.co/UINQf27BEV

— Lola (@thefempire50) August 9, 2026

This is where the entire trans cult falls apart. We are told three of these men are women, we must accept, welcome and treat them as women without exception, including giving them full access to women's sport.

The forth man is apparently only pretending pic.twitter.com/nEaTgbRRPK

— RS Archer (@archer_rs) August 9, 2026

YET. AI Cannot Give Writers Something to Say.

I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG: Henry Rollins: ‘Communist Countries Suck.’

MAN BITES DOG: AN EXCELLENT, NON-PC ARTICLE IN THE ATLANTIC. Confessions of a Token Black Professor. Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia. (Link was free to me, but here’s an archive link just in case.)

I attended an informal orientation event for early-career Black faculty, where I assumed we would talk about our research interests or simply get to know one another. Instead, the gathering felt more like a combined therapy session and HR seminar. At one point, someone casually rattled off a series of local establishments to steer clear of, vaguely implying that they were filled with bigots. Alarmed by the notion that race relations were so bad in Lewiston that there were places I should avoid eating, I asked why one restaurant in particular had earned a reputation for intolerance. My colleague said that a student of color had worked there and not liked it very much.

The source of the most intense racial monomania on campus, I came to realize, was senior leadership. . . .

In retrospect, it is no coincidence that wokeness blossomed at prestigious American colleges at the very moment when those schools were facing rising discontent over student debt and tuition costs. For the academic aristocracy, touting fealty to Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, trans rights, and other progressive movements served as a convenient distraction from the intractable economic and social issues that the colleges themselves were perpetuating. This allowed higher education to reclaim the moral high ground after Occupy Wall Street and the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign—to say nothing of the anti-elite fury that gave rise to Donald Trump—had kicked mud all over academia’s ivy-twined walls. Even better, embracing social-justice rhetoric and adopting schemes to boost faculty diversity were cheap. Cheaper, anyway, than lowering tuition or hiring more tenure-track professors.

Indeed. Read the whole thing.

Plus, this sequel on X:

I applied at Bates College during this time and my research is on Edward Abbey and American environmentalism @Tyler_A_Harper. Unless there was another similar candidate, I think this is me. Surreal! pic.twitter.com/jiPYs2vLrc

— Eytan (@EytanPol) August 10, 2026

STOPPING FRACKING WOULD HAVE WEAKENED AMERICA, AND THAT WAS THE GOAL:

It is the hydraulic fracturing scare all over again, often with the same protestors I saw in 2010.

Almost everything we do in our everyday lives is facilitated by a data power center just in the same way that almost everything we use every day requires natural gas.

So we need… https://t.co/zTR5FKmZ4p

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.