ORIGINALISM IS WHERE HISTORY BECOMES ARGUMENT. In the Court’s latest term, Jeffrey Rosen, Nina Totenberg, and Joanne Lipman show how fights over the Fourteenth Amendment can turn on which text, era, and historical evidence the justices think should control.

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

DECOUPLING IS A STRATEGIC NECESSITY:

The UK Ministry of Defense has discovered that the Royal Navy’s new fleet of spy drones, being operated by elements of the Royal Marines since March, have been secretly transmitting information from the drone’s primary camera to China, according to an investigation from The… pic.twitter.com/8ok38w9Vx1

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 10, 2026

AOC: “WOKE ONE WAS CRAZY!” How crazy? This crazy:

The most notable statistical outcome of the George Floyd Revolution was a significant increase in the black homicide death rate. That is the actual legacy of BLM. https://t.co/k4u8bdw4hg

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) August 10, 2026

JAW, JAW WAS BETTER THAN WAR, WAR: Iranian Media Official: No More Negotiations With Trump.

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

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Critical To China’s Space Program Blows Up Just 85 Seconds After Launch.

According to Space News, China National Radio (CNR) published a report around the time of liftoff on what the mission was expected to accomplish, referring to the payload as Zhongxing-4B. The report now shows a 404 error.

The outlet reported that Zhongxing satellites are possibly used for military communications.

Monday’s launch marked China’s 56th orbital launch attempt of 2026 and its fourth failure of the year. Earlier setbacks included a Long March 3B failure and the failed debut of the Ceres-2 solid-fueled rocket in January, followed by the loss of the Tianlong-3 rocket during its maiden flight in early April, Space News reported.

The Long March 7A is not an experimental rocket making its first appearance. It debuted in March 2020, but the inaugural mission ended in failure as well after the rocket exploded, the outlet reported.

Space is hard. But China made a great leap forward, to coin a phrase, last month on one of the hardest parts: China catches its first reusable booster.

THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST (CONT’D):

🚨 Cambridge University: first the Jason Arday disaster, now this.
They’ve appointed Farah Ahmed as Assistant Professor of Education — a woman who called Western education a “threat” to Muslims, democracy a “corrupt tradition,” and literacy plus qualifications un-Islamic. She…

— Donna-Louise (@NoLongerTheFuzz) August 11, 2026

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.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE LEFT THE STATE YEARS AGO: Colorado’s one-party rulers enjoy a progressive press pass. “Unfortunately, the demographic and political realities of this state mean nothing about this will be changing any time soon. With most of the state’s politicians clustered in the blue Front Range, Democrats know that they don’t have to venture into parts of the state where they might face tough questions. They don’t have to appear on the media outlets that the red parts of the state watch and read. Why would they when there’s no penalty for it? No one will hear the complaints from outlets like Center Square over Weiser’s lack of transparency when he can easily shout any story down by talking to Colorado Public Radio.”

“Democrat operatives with bylines” remains as true as ever.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Billions of dollars are expended each year to pay the salaries of people whose literal job is engaging in institutionalized Red Guard assaults on their fellow citizens. https://t.co/cXzv8E1aLJ

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 11, 2026

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:

MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN:

You want to know why @realDonaldTrump is focused on Greenland? He’s always one step ahead. https://t.co/XZwDnfav6I

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) August 11, 2026

No word yet on when Greenland will be getting their own “Disneyland of gas stations,” but it’s likely only a matter of time:

SOLID CONCLUSION, BUT I THINK HE MEANT “JUST EXPECTED” AT THE START:

Just incredible that I hadn’t even heard about this yet. She voted against a bill that criminalized adults trying to sexually pursue children.

Dems have themselves a real winner with the DSA candidate in Wisconsin. https://t.co/M0ewQIiHP7

— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 11, 2026

LIGHTNING DEAL: FOUCSSOMEI Under Bed Storage with Wheels. #CommissionEarned

ROBERT SPENCER: Romeo and WHO? “Next month, Riverside Studios, a trendy “arts centre” in London, is proudly (what else?) presenting Romeo and Hamed, which it describes as ‘a bold, provocative queer reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy from debut writer Scott Horgan.’ It is likely quite provocative, and queer it certainly is, both in the old and new senses of the word, but bold? Nah. The play, you see, was originally called Romeo and Mohammed, but the leftists at Riverside Studios allowed themselves enough “Islamophobia” to realize that a production with a title like that could get them all killed, and they decided to tone it down a bit.”

Where is James Talarico to explain that Mohammed was nonbinary?

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

OLD AND BUSTED: Paper Lion. 

The New Hotness? Politburo Compliant:

"I started off as a sports journalist and ended up a Communist" has turned out to be a depressingly common career arc. https://t.co/SWLlaCABd7

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) August 11, 2026

UGH: US emergency oil reserve falls below 300M barrels for first time since 1980s.

Flashback: Oil purchase to fill strategic reserve dropped from stimulus. “Senate Democrats took credit for stripping out that money from the Senate bill, unveiled Wednesday, calling it a ‘bailout’ for the oil industry.”

And: Well, Biden Screwed Us Forever on Another Damn Thing.

YET. AI Cannot Give Writers Something to Say.

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:

I ran into a “Republicans for Talarico” type lady here once, came into my replies talking about how she was a lifelong conservative Republican voter who’d been forced to support Democrats because of how radical the Republican Party had become, so I searched her history and found… https://t.co/9k6DEAjPBY

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) August 10, 2026

“PERHAPS MAMDAMI STILL SEES THE WORLD IN TERMS OF THE TOP-HATTED, TUXEDO WEARING, DIAMOND TIE PIN GARBED, PIED-A-TERRE DWELLING CAPITALIST ELITE, which it is his moral duty to tax. But I think the world has changed:”

The very word "Pied-à-Terre" provides a glimpse into Mamdani's world that few ordinary people are familiar with. It goes back to a world before motels, air BNBs and time share.

In that world the well-to-do person had a country house and primary residence. Then he had a town…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 11, 2026

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