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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Which Cars Cost Us the Most and the Least to Maintain, and Why?

I LIKE MUSCLE: Jeep’s Wildest Ever Grand Cherokee Is Set to Return With SRT Supercharged V-8 Muscle. After a long hiatus, Jeep’s quickest SUV is expected to return with Hellcat power and a modernized platform.

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:

My take on the Arday debacle. Elevator pitch version: 1) Arday is typical of a thriving alternate-universe academia elevating performance art over curiosity; 2) the "anti-racist" people who supported him are either bigots or caught up in recreational tribalism.…

— John McWhorter (@JohnHMcWhorter) August 10, 2026

STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING:

1897 Winchester Trench Guns Coming from the CMP?? YES! Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) CEO Gerald O'Keefe states in addition to the M14 rifles, they are also receiving a quantity of original Winchester M1897 Trench Guns for sale!! What do YOU think, interested in one? pic.twitter.com/rpvmBoqZ8v

— Firearms News Magazine (@FirearmsNewsMag) August 8, 2026

NO. GO AWAY. Idaho’s second Aedes aegypti mosquito sparks a search for signs the invasive species has spread.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS VS. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: A Tale of Two Chiefs. “There is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by not deciding more than is necessary to decide. Then there is Chief Justice Roberts, the institutionalist, who strategically guides the Supreme Court by deciding more than is necessary to decide. Which Roberts do we get in each case?”

ALEX BERENSON: URGENT: Tony Fauci appears to have misled Congress in 2024 about his efforts to avoid federal records laws: Joe Biden’s final-day presidential pardon of Fauci will protect him from any potential criminal jeopardy for the episode, but it shows why he may be so reluctant to testify now.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Fishermen find 2,100-year-old Roman shipwreck near Sicily.

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SO SHOULD THE REST OF US: People With Shellfish Allergies Should Think Twice Before Eating Insects.

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CULTURE: Finance Majors Go to Church. English Majors Don’t: The Stereotypes About Which Majors Are Religious and Conservative Turn Out to Be Mostly True.

OH, PLEASE: Study: School police officers utilize ‘niceness as whiteness’ to validate arrests of students. “The paper ‘Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest’ by Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Research Fellow Abigail Beneke (‘studies how schools provide care under racial capitalism’) and Professors Benjamin Fisher (U. Wisconsin-Madison), F. Chris Curran (U. Florida), and Samantha Viano (George Mason) was highlighted last week by Dr. James Nuzzo.”

HMM: Trump administration defends Harvard funding freeze as ACLU-led coalition backs university on appeal.

EVERYTHING IS FAKE: Simon & Schuster Selectively Edited Disgraced Scholar Jason Arday’s Memoir To Soften Now-Toxic Reputation.

SPOILED RICH KIDS ARE A CURSE ON SOCIETY: The American Overclass Gives Birth to American Democratic Socialism.

Related:

They’re all like this, BTW. Every single one is a disappointing nepo baby. DSA is if “I HATE YOU DAD” were a political party.

Commies are all scammers. https://t.co/fBL5UpGfSX

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) August 9, 2026

An incredibly consistent overlap between the categories of communist activist and privileged rich kids who never held real jobs and have defined their entire lives by their desire to rebel against their rich families. https://t.co/JB54sJtZHj

— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 9, 2026

It goes back to the beginning of Marxism:

Karl Marx's dad roasting him pic.twitter.com/Yo77jBGt0N

— Heron Of Alexandria (@HeronOfAlexand1) February 17, 2024

THE UNCHALLENGED GLOBAL LEADER:

No chance. America remains the global leader in this field. Making Jason Arday a Cambridge professor so everyone involved can congratulate themselves on their virtue is beginner level stuff. America took a serial plagiarist with embarrassingly poor scholarship and made her… https://t.co/f89Wray6f2

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 8, 2026

TRUE:

Kareem might have a point if anyone could name a single other WNBA player. https://t.co/pBxl0KEGEs

— Julie Frost–That Werewolf Writer🐺🦉 (@JulieCFrost) August 9, 2026

STANDING UP TO RACISM: Race Discrimination in Admissions Suit Against U Washington Can Go Forward.

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