CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Gun Rights Win: DOJ Concedes Gun Owners Can Carry in Post Offices.
August 14, 2026
MANDATORY INDOCTRINATION: Georgetown social justice center requires race course for Federal Work-Study students.
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: JD Vance refers medical child sex change providers to DOJ for prosecution over fraud.
The Trump administration on Thursday released a new report detailing how hospitals have placed profits over the safety of children in prescribing so-called “gender affirming” medical treatments, such as sex-change surgeries and hormones. Vice President VD Vance announced that he has referred the matter to the Department of Justice.
In a letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, Vance wrote that he is referring the report to the DOJ “to determine whether the providers identified have violated federal law, regulations, or policies including, but not limited to, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, 18 USC 24, and federal fraud and conspiracy laws.”
He continued, “When providers miscode treatment in order to secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover, they should be held accountable. If they have done so intentionally, thereby perpetuating a fraud on Medicaid or on private insurers, they should go to prison. Rather than allow the proliferation of harmful, sex-rejecting procedures on our children, we must sent a clear message that any hospitals and providers that have participated in these practices will face justice.”
Worse, large number of so-called “trans” kids are just ordinary tomboys, gays, and even the autistic just going through an awkward adolescence. Instead of getting counsel or just letting them figure things out like kids usually do, they got permanently altered.
IF YOU’RE GOING TO ARGUE ABOUT AMERICA, YOU MIGHT AS WELL KNOW WHAT YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT. The Blessings of Liberty digs into the ideas, cases, and historical fights behind the Constitution with Jeffrey Rosen and guests who know the material cold.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dear Gavin Newsom — When You’ve Lost Ann Arbor… “The adoring throngs never materialized. One could hardly refer to the smattering of people who showed up for Newsom’s public events as ‘crowds.’ Democrats are very adept at astroturfing attendance, but the party wasn’t doing any favors for Newsom.”
TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH: Bill Gates’ Daughter Phoebe Faces Jail Time After Being Accused Of Profiting From Sales She Didn’t Drive. “A July 2026 Bloomberg investigation alleged that Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni knowingly pushed for features within the software that took credit for sales they didn’t actually drive. The illicit practice carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.”
ED MORRISSEY: Woke Will Eat Itself, Chapter MCLXII: WNBA Meets to Discover Definition of ‘Woman’, And …
Ahem. It wasn’t Enes Kantor Freedom or Royce White who created this problem. Sophie Cunningham didn’t create it either; an ESPN reporter demanded Cunningham’s opinion on it while Cunningham was criticizing the league’s treatment of her teammate Caitlin Clark. Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve made it worse by attempting to troll Cunningham at a game with a “Trans Kids Belong” T-shirt during a game against the Fever, and the Lynx made it worse by attacking women and girls who support Cunningham.
And now that two biological males want to compete in the league, the woke morons who run the league find themselves hoist by their own petard.
So when do these geniuses plan to settle on a definition of woman? Maybe they’ll drop it under the Christmas tree. No, I am not kidding:
The WNBA and team representatives from across the league met Wednesday, Aug. 12 for planned talks on various matters, including ongoing debate over transgender females’ participation in women’s basketball.
“Today’s meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online. We will continue to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months,” a statement USA TODAY received from a WNBA spokesperson said.
“Weeks and months”? Will it take the Women’s National Basketball Association “weeks and months” to define the word “women”? What did the league think it meant for the past thirty years since its founding?
They’ll get back to Ed on that in weeks or months, or after they’ve chosen where to go for lunch, depending upon which comes first:
Sad: WNBA Task Force Fails To Define Woman After Spending Entire Meeting Trying To Pick Restaurant For Lunch https://t.co/enE6fnxsGl
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 14, 2026
Related:
“If woman ran the world”… bitch they can’t run a league that’s funded by men. https://t.co/U8aeuGqE92
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 13, 2026
AWFL NEWS:
‘Nuff said https://t.co/TOPE4HEujF pic.twitter.com/j0va3i9zHq
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) August 14, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Two federal agencies routed taxpayer dollars to terror-linked charities, new reports find. “Charities.”
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:
Shot:
Chaser:
Earlier: Under James Murdoch, New York Magazine Tilts Toward Hamas.
I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO GET COCKY:
The most dangerous thing Republicans can do is underestimate candidates like AOC in 2028.
We need to focus on addressing the issues that are attracting voters to them instead of dismissing their concerns.
Time to get serious. https://t.co/vS6rkgBDVu
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 13, 2026
MAGA: Apple’s Tim Cook joined by Howard Lutnick in opening Houston manufacturing plant.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Wednesday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas.
The facility is also where Apple will manufacture Mac Mini desktop computers later this year, the company said. AI servers for Apple are also assembled at a portion of the location.
“We stood up a factory, started production, and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line, and with Mac Mini production set to begin later this year,” Cook said, adding that Apple had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the facility.
What the country really needs though is more RAM and SSD fabs.
The Mac mini is great — I love mine, and the unified memory architecture makes the Pro model with upgraded RAM a surprisingly capable LLM server.
But in addition to the price hikes forced by the memory storage, it’s now a two-and-a-half month wait for the model I received overnight back in April.
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JUSTICE: Fifth Circuit Allows 2021 Texas Election Integrity Law To Finally Go Into Effect. “In short, we have been playing an exhausting game of Whac-A-Mole to correct the district court’s mishandling of this case.”
INCLUDING THE MOST CRINGEWORTHY POLITICAL AD IN RECENT YEARS: The Gentleman’s Guide to Destroying the DSA, Humiliating El-Sayed, and Saving America!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION:
The chances are quite high that virtually every gender clinic and doctor in America already has a long backlog of criminal acts that will be trivially easy to discover — and that now will be found and prosecuted https://t.co/WbYFQ1TDQd
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 13, 2026
August 13, 2026
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Kamala Harris Issues Dire Warning That SAVE America Act Could Result In America Being Saved https://t.co/dyXgRavq4g
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 13, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Let’s see your best work tonight.
BAD IDEAS GET MUCH HARDER TO KILL ONCE THEY ACQUIRE CREDENTIALS. A shaky claim becomes a study, the study becomes a textbook lesson, and the lesson becomes conventional wisdom. Kitty Genovese and the Stanford Prison Experiment show why we need better ways to trace bad claims, broken citations, and everything built on top of them.
