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.’

MAN BITES DOG: AN EXCELLENT, NON-PC ARTICLE IN THE ATLANTIC. Confessions of a Token Black Professor. Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia. (Link was free to me, but here’s an archive link just in case.)

I attended an informal orientation event for early-career Black faculty, where I assumed we would talk about our research interests or simply get to know one another. Instead, the gathering felt more like a combined therapy session and HR seminar. At one point, someone casually rattled off a series of local establishments to steer clear of, vaguely implying that they were filled with bigots. Alarmed by the notion that race relations were so bad in Lewiston that there were places I should avoid eating, I asked why one restaurant in particular had earned a reputation for intolerance. My colleague said that a student of color had worked there and not liked it very much.

The source of the most intense racial monomania on campus, I came to realize, was senior leadership. . . .

In retrospect, it is no coincidence that wokeness blossomed at prestigious American colleges at the very moment when those schools were facing rising discontent over student debt and tuition costs. For the academic aristocracy, touting fealty to Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, trans rights, and other progressive movements served as a convenient distraction from the intractable economic and social issues that the colleges themselves were perpetuating. This allowed higher education to reclaim the moral high ground after Occupy Wall Street and the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign—to say nothing of the anti-elite fury that gave rise to Donald Trump—had kicked mud all over academia’s ivy-twined walls. Even better, embracing social-justice rhetoric and adopting schemes to boost faculty diversity were cheap. Cheaper, anyway, than lowering tuition or hiring more tenure-track professors.

Indeed. Read the whole thing.

Plus, this sequel on X:

I applied at Bates College during this time and my research is on Edward Abbey and American environmentalism @Tyler_A_Harper. Unless there was another similar candidate, I think this is me. Surreal! pic.twitter.com/jiPYs2vLrc

— Eytan (@EytanPol) August 10, 2026

I LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB: Wait, Rubio Revoked How Many Visas? Just Wait Until You See Why.

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Sometimes Sunday comes on Monday.

STOPPING FRACKING WOULD HAVE WEAKENED AMERICA, AND THAT WAS THE GOAL:

It is the hydraulic fracturing scare all over again, often with the same protestors I saw in 2010.

Almost everything we do in our everyday lives is facilitated by a data power center just in the same way that almost everything we use every day requires natural gas.

So we need… https://t.co/zTR5FKmZ4p

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) August 10, 2026

WE SURE DID:  America Got ‘Faucied’.

VERY SOCIALIST:  Mamdani’s Anti-Rent Advisor Faces Eviction Over Four Years Of Unpaid Rent .

WELL – THAT’S PERSUASIVE:  Iran airs rare clip of supreme leader — but here’s why it does nothing to dispel dire health rumors.

LIKE NUCLEAR ENERGY, IT’S HERE AND WE’VE GOT TO GET USED TO IT:  AI: We Have Already Doomed Ourselves. The AI safety summits and government rulebooks are theatre. The machines that will replace us are already more clever than we are, and there’s no putting this genie back in the bottle

WE SHOULD THANK THEM. THEY VOLUNTEERED TO DEFEND US ALL:  Thank You For Your Service.

AND YET SHE MIGHT BE THE BEST THEY HAVE:  Former DNC Fundraiser: Major Democratic Donors are Done With Kamala Harris.

UM…. THE EARTH IS GETTING SPICY:  7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Devastates Western Colombia, Killing More Than 100.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A LOT OF NAME AND SHAME:  Who Hired the Ridiculous Jason Arday at Cambridge? I Have the Names.

WE NEED TO REINDUSTRIALIZE:  When will they learn?

UH. THIS IS GETTING WEIRD:  Taylor Farms recalls salsa, guacamole over salmonella fears after company linked to ‘explosive diarrhea’ outbreak.

FASTER PLEASE:  DHS reports over 1.4M illegal alien departures since January 2025.

UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO SCOTLAND:  It seems that the Scottish Government is willing to go right to the extent of the law and beyond in covering up its actions these days. Since it is judge and jury on itself between elections, it is hard to see how this situation can get any better.