August 25, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘You’ll see lights on the moon’: Billionaire space executive predicts moon commutes in the 2030s. “Voyager Technologies founder and CEO Dylan Taylor says off-world jobs could emerge much sooner than many people expect. Taylor told Fortune that spaceflight is nearing a new stage, shifting away from brief missions and toward a reality wherein living and working off Earth is routine. In his view, the next milestone is a lunar outpost, which he expects could arrive in the early 2030s.”

Posted at 2:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Who’s Paying for Climate Reporting in the Mainstream Media?

Over the years, the lack of trust in journalism led to fewer subscribers, resulting in fewer newspapers and, naturally, fewer outlets subscribing to the Associated Press news service.

To fend off complete obliteration, the AP adopted a model that includes accepting “support” to help fund its reporting. For instance, a recent story on an appeals court ruling against the Trump administration regarding Biden-era clean energy projects included this note: “The Associated Press receives support from the Walton Family Foundation for coverage of water and environmental policy.”

The Walton Family Foundation is an organization devoted, in part, to environmental causes. Its political position is clear – back in 2022, it applauded passage of President Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, a giveaway of billions to the climate crusade.

“The challenges of climate change have and will continue to impact every aspect of our lives,” the Walton Foundation declared at the time. “Government, business, tribal nations, philanthropy, advocates, and others will all need to build on this historic investment together to continue to build momentum for a more resilient future.”

The AP insists, of course, that it is editorially independent and “solely responsible for all content” of its climate stories. But consider this – the Walton Foundation’s original two-year $785,000 grant in 2021 funded three AP reporters (and, presumably, related expenses), according to the foundation. Just two years later, the grant had grown to a three-year commitment totaling $2.5 million.

From there, things get worse.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green

IT ALSO HELPS IF YOU DON’T KILL THE KIDS THAT YOU HAVE:

Posted at 1:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

ERIK FLORACK: The Tale of the Red Robes. “Seems to me an indication of a lack of things to protest on the left, or at least a lack of things they can protest without getting themselves into trouble, either by running afoul of their own set of values, or running into the angry and violent. And even in this case, it’s a bit of a stretch to ignore Islam in this.”

Posted at 1:14 pm by Stephen Green

PERSPECTIVE:

Meanwhile, some “conservatives” sing the praises of feudalism.

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green

ROUTINE BUT NEVER BORING: SpaceX sets rocket-reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year.

Starlink launches may have become commonplace, but this one was definitely worth staying up for.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with 29 Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Aug. 25), at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT).

It was the 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2026 and the record-breaking 37th mission for this rocket’s first stage, a booster designated B1067.

The initial goal was to get each Falcon 9 booster up to 10 flights.

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK:

Plus: “The government wasn’t merely buying posts. It watched public reaction in real time, rewrote influencer instructions and supplied rebuttals as the debate unfolded.”

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

DEFLECTION: Facing inaccuracy claims, historian Kerri Greenidge points to bias against black female scholars.

Kerri Greenidge’s celebrated 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which explores three generations of the history of the prominent slaveholding family, is now under heavy scrutiny, with scholars arguing it contains factual inaccuracies, nonexistent citations, and misattributed source materials.

Greenidge is an American historian who was a tenured associate professor at Tufts University in the Department of Studies in race, colonialism, and diaspora.

As a result of the controversy, she may have lost a book deal last month, according to the New York Times. Greenidge’s university email is now defunct and she does not have publicly listed contact information. She did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment on LinkedIn.

She told the New York Times that she might have misattributed some citations, but that “I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” adding: “The attack on Black women academics is real.”

She’s no Jason Arday, but she knows how to play the game.

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

BERNIE HAS NO PROBLEM WITH DATA CENTERS NEAR HIS HOME(S):

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

OH, CANADA:

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green

THIS IS THE WAY:

Posted at 10:18 am by Ed Driscoll

IT’S NOT GREAT: What Young Men Face Today. “Society didn’t just passively abandon young men. It actively went out of its way to destroy them, and succeeded.”

Posted at 9:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON: Catherine Herridge Keeps Reviving Journalism. “Just when you think journalism has gone down the drain forever into the performative sewer, someone revives it with, of all things, facts. That someone is often Catherine Herridge.”

Posted at 9:44 am by Glenn Reynolds