ICYMI: Is Trump Pal David Ellison About to Get the Greenlight to Buy Warner?

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.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: BAMBOO COOL Men’s Underwear Breathable Boxer Briefs. #CommissionEarned

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT: This Isn’t Suspicious: Michigan Secretary of State Requires Deletion of Election Records One Week After Certification.

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.”

JOHN LUCAS: Rules for Radicals? Whither the WNBA? Sophie’s choice — Honesty and candor over cowardice.

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

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.

I HOPE SO: SpaceX could make $500 billion in 2028, Elon Musk says.

Related: SpaceX AI Data Center Will Be Rented by Microsoft for Hundreds of Billion Per Year.

TOXIC: FDA Finds Bacteria in a Third of ‘Sterile’ Tattoo Inks, And That’s a Problem.

CRAZY:

I still think about the random utility truck driver who was fired because someone got him to do an "ok" symbol.

— Lefty's Cheap Hotel (@JrWannamaker) August 13, 2026

Related:

Tyler is obviously right and this is one meta irony that perpetually floats over academia for me:

So many academics think political activism is the most important thing.

Yet, academics are reliably the most incompetent political actors IRL, they lack the say they should have in… https://t.co/Jvk1Hkae9I

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) August 13, 2026

TADALAFIL AND GLAUCOMA: Popular Erectile Dysfunction Drug Linked to Vision-Threatening Eye Disease.

SUPPORT MUSCLE RECOVERY: Grass Fed Colostrum Powder. #CommissionEarned

PROGRESS: Sweat sensor enables continuous noninvasive measurement of cholesterol.

ICYMI: The Dems’ Great White Hope Just Got Humiliated in Michigan.

WHAT CLIMATE CRISIS?

New data for Great Barrier Reef: Last five years best on record

Yet, media wrote its obituary in 2014

Research told us it would be almost gone in 2022

Not all scare stories are truehttps://t.co/siAvj2d0thhttps://t.co/hj58WrVihVhttps://t.co/Q0mNUoOOyt… pic.twitter.com/vFRTBNvpHo

— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) August 13, 2026

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Gas Is So Expensive In Britain That Fuel Theft Is Surging.

YES, PLEASE: Trump officials float cut to capital gains tax on home sales. What it could mean for homeowners.

REP. ELISE STEFANIK, DESTROYER OF HIGHER ED WORLDS, HAS A NEW BOOK OUT. Say what you will about those Congressional hearings, they were a serious “the emperor has no clothes” moment.

WHO KNEW KICKING IN A DOOR AND CHOKING A GUY WAS AGAINST THE LAW? New Maine Dem Senate Nominee Hit With Domestic Violence Scandal.