September 1, 2026

HE’S ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO JUST CAN’T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE: George Santos Permanently Banned From Kalshi for Insider Trading. “George Santos has become the first person permanently banned from prediction market Kalshi after the company found evidence the former New York congressman engaged in insider trading tied to his own attendance at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Kalshi also fined Santos $71,356, according to the company.”

Posted at 4:51 pm by Stephen Green

HOLDING THE LINE:

Posted at 4:35 pm by Stephen Green

OUT ON A LIMB: Leftists Will Never Self-Reflect, And They Will Never Apologize For The Horrors They Inflict.

They’ll conveniently forget any of it ever happened, and they’ll aggressively gaslight Americans into believing that it never happened, too. Through their control over institutions like the media and academia, they can memory-hole practically whatever they want, just as they’ve already done with scandals like Russiagate and with the worst excesses of the Covid era.

Finally, they’ll convince themselves that rather than a string of necessary evils required to defeat the reviled conservative oppressors, their atrocities were a positive good — finally liberating America and ushering in an age of left-wing utopia.

The citizens of the former Soviet Union didn’t “wake up” to all the horrors of their regime. They still deny the Holodomor, the abortion rate remains extremely high, and the government has offered little in the way of an acknowledgment or apology for the brutal gulag system. The Soviet Union didn’t fall because the Soviet citizenry woke up one day and suddenly regretted all the terrible things that had been committed in the name of the communist regime. They finally turned against the Soviet system once its intrusiveness and incompetence became too inconvenient in daily life, but there was no grand self-reflection. You can look at every communist, socialist, or “democratic socialist” regime of the last century, and you’ll see this exact same pattern.

Like the Soviets, some (emphasis on some) of the leftists of today will only begin to turn against leftism (if at all) once it starts to negatively affect them personally, but they’ll never grapple with the historic horrors wrought by their movement. Because the horror is the point.

See also: British historian Eric Hobsbawm, an unapologetic Stalinist to the bitter end at age 95 in 2012. “Hobsbawm himself made this quite clear in a now famous and much quoted interview with Michael Ignatieff that conducted in 1994. What you are saying, Ignatieff asked, is ‘that had the radiant tomorrow actually been created, the loss of fifteen, twenty million people might have been justified?’ Hobsbawm immediately gave a one-word answer that says it all: ‘Yes.’ No wonder Roger Kimball refers to him as a ‘repellent figure.’”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

IT’S JUST THE ALIEN REACTOR BURIED UNDER PYRAMID MOUNTAIN: Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars. “Gravity measurements suggest that the interior beneath Mars’s southern hemisphere is about 200 to 400 degrees Celsius warmer than the north and may be partially molten. The finding offers a new window into the Red Planet’s geologic history, including periods when Mars may have had environments capable of supporting life.”

Posted at 3:49 pm by Stephen Green

COMPLAINING ABOUT MEMES IS HOW YOU GET MORE MEMES:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Stephen Green

EDITORS… EDITING? CAN THEY DO THAT?

Posted at 3:04 pm by Stephen Green

PRIVACY: DeSantis bans Flock cameras on state roads in Florida.

The move came less than a week after Mr. DeSantis echoed the concerns of Florida residents who complained the cameras, powered by artificial intelligence, go too far in monitoring the public and are being used in some cases for nefarious reasons by rogue police officers and others.

“I’m all about law enforcement having the tools to be able to hold criminals accountable,” Mr. DeSantis said last week during a press conference at Florida International University. “But I don’t want to have this become a surveillance state.”

Mr. DeSantis called for a legislative overhaul of the law governing the use of the cameras, which number in the thousands in Florida.

“I think these cameras, these license plate readers, I think it’s out of control,” he said.

Just yesterday: Responding to Their Customers, Gun Stores Take Down Their Flock Cameras.

Posted at 2:47 pm by Stephen Green

GET RESULTS FAST:

Kurt might have to wait a bit longer for this: “Now, they should correct the false implication that we were paid to spread propaganda for the Pentagon and apologize to us.”

Full background here.

Posted at 2:31 pm by Stephen Green

OMG! WHATS UP POST-IRAN FOR TDSERS? It hasn’t happened just yet, but Trump’s Anaconda strategy against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard regime seems to be steadily tightening toward victory. Those mischievous expositors at Issues & Insights worry what will happen to millions of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) sufferers when Orange Man Bad puts the final touch on the victory.

Posted at 2:28 pm by Mark Tapscott

TALARICO IN 2020: Capitalism Is White Supremacy and Texas Oil Is Kinda Racist.

Just wait until campaign ads feature Talarico’s thoughts on capitalism and the state’s oil industry. That will be coming too, along with Talarico’s radical positions on abortion, and perhaps even Talarico’s foolish and uninformed remarks on the Karmelo Anthony case, which blew up last week in a hearing that forced a lot of Anthony’s previous crimes and bizarre behavior into the open. Talarico won’t have anywhere to hide, and while there may be some concerns about Paxton’s baggage, he’s won three statewide elections … and that’s three more than Talarico, or any other Texas Democrat in the past 32 years.

Eschew all modalities of cocksuredness, y’all.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

THAT’S HOW I REMEMBER IT:

Posted at 1:59 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Almost as much as they’re excited about this recent development in Roger Goodell’s NFL: Map Shows NFL Teams With Male Cheerleaders Amid Online Scrutiny.

In accordance with the prophecy:

Speaking of the Cowboys, the ghost of Tex Schramm weeps, wonders where it all went wrong for his beloved league.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll