NOW OUT: From A.J. Rice, The Curse of the Bearded Lady: How the Trans Mafia Whacked American Sanity. #CommissionEarned

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Milk Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned

THAT’S A SHAME: Kentucky anti-DEI law seemingly ends NIH-funded professor’s ‘white ally’ therapy training.

GERMANY’S HIGH COURT GETS FREE SPEECH RIGHT! The high court ruled that comparing Israel to Nazi Germany can still be protected speech, even when the comparison is deeply offensive. Free speech protections matter most in the cases that make people want to abandon them.

HYPOCRISY IS A FERTILE PLANT:

DiJonai Carrington for clotheslining Sophie Cunningham then posting "white privilege" while appropriating white culture with fake ass straight blonde hair.

Retard of the day 🥇 pic.twitter.com/bpUAgxSPgo

— Retard Finder (@IfindRetards) August 8, 2026

SHRINK HIS TENT TO A STRAITJACKET:

Former DNC Vice-chair David Hogg just told establishment figures like Chuck Schumer that the "Big Tent" of his party is not big enough. He and other moderates have to go. When asked about Democratic moderates, Hogg replied, “They don’t have the right values"…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 8, 2026

Because the people inside it are kooks.

ROGER SIMON: Let a Hundred (AI) Movie Studios Bloom. Plus see the trailer he made for a movie on his novel, EMET. Nice. I notice a curious resemblance in the rabbi.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Airtag Wallet for Men,with Money Clip. #CommissionEarned

GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTS JOURNALISM:

Sports Illustrated’s headline is “Sophie Cunningham got a bitter taste of karma” by getting clotheslined. Sports media is broken. It’s way more left wing than political media. pic.twitter.com/svrY06F0JP

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 8, 2026

It’s quite a product that the leftist skin suit known as Sports Illustrated is defending:

In short this is not a women's sports league. It's a joyless, angry, violent, race obsessed non-stop 2018 Oberlin struggle session filled with entitled lunatics unable to survive without someone else picking up the bill. They whine when they don't get attention, and whine 10x…

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 23, 2026

Iowahawk’s tweet concludes, “They whine when they don’t get attention, and whine 10x harder when they do. They whine hardest about the problematic ‘new fans’ who quadrupled their pay, tripled their TV audiences, 10x-ed their franchise valuations, got them charter jets, and staved off their inevitable bankruptcy for 10 years or so. I sincerely hope they achieve their dream of exorcising themselves of CC and all those dreaded ‘new fans,’ and return to their beloved Paradise Lost of half-empty 1000 seat high school gyms attended by girl fight fetishists with giveaway tickets printed on Subway Sandwich receipts.”

ROBERT GRABOYES: Why I Love Artificial Intelligence Platforms: I’ll save “Why I Hate Artificial Intelligence Platforms” for another day.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after “resigning” from Harvard.

The arithmetic is $1.4 million in W-2 earnings plus another $150k in “other compensation” and then, since she didn’t work for the first half of the year (“post-presidential sabbatical” (at home trying to figure out how to get ChatGPT to do the tedious plagiarism work on the next book?)), multiply by 2 = $3.1 million/year annualized.

Separately, Claudine Gay is the “Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies”. How much money would one have to give to Harvard to get her $3.1 million/year job retitled “the Jason A. K. Arday Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies”?

The European mind cannot comprehend the spectacular heights to which a known plagiarist can rise in America:

We made Joe Biden a plagiarist~
The President of the U.S. !
Plagiarism in the 1980s was considered shocking (even by the Press) and deemed the person unfit.

— Lawyerforlaws (@lawyer4laws) August 8, 2026

Biden even earned the endorsement of the Labour MP whose speech he had cribbed: Three decades after Biden stole his speech, Neil Kinnock endorses his 2020 bid.

Exit quote: “DEI is synonymous with the collapse of the west:”

All this talk about Jason Arday, but people still don’t realise what DEI has done. One, it has destroyed millions of lives (they’re all white men, so no one cares). Two, it has destroyed entire industries and even art forms, potentially forever.

There’s no sign that literature,…

— Nick Dixon (@NickDixon) August 8, 2026

TRUE:

Jason Arday’s utility is that you can defenestrate him and thus pretend that the rest of these folx are real scholars https://t.co/K7dpKxgrBX

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 8, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY TO INSTAPUNDIT! This blog started on August 8, 2001. I can’t promise I’ll still be blogging in 25 years — but I can’t promise that I won’t, either. (Bumped).

HAHA, I REMEMBER WHEN “CULTURE JAMMING” WAS JUST FOR LEFTISTS:

If you could 10x your salary by saying you were a woman, wouldn’t you do it too? WNBA is cooked.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 8, 2026

IT’S ALWAYS AN OXYGEN VALVE: Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket explosion to oxygen valve, CEO says.

MIND YOUR ORAL HEALTH: Bleeding Gums Might Be an Early Sign of Something Much Bigger.

SOON OBESITY WILL BE A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: Oral Weight Loss Pill Helps Patients Lose up to 12% of Body Weight.

JAPANESE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR A LONG TIME: ‘Japanese Walking’ Is Going Viral, and Doctors Say It Actually Works.

NEW MATT WALSH DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TO DROP:

In order to make a real change, some dude needs to take the L and actually pretend to be a chick for a year, dominate everything and then admit it was all a ruse afterward. We need somebody with the balls to do it. https://t.co/z24vh1ADog

— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) August 8, 2026

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Driving an $18,000 EV That Talks and Can Park Itself.

BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket. #CommissionEarned

I SUSPECT THEY WILL:

🚨NEWS: Authorities fear others will copy a group in Seville, Spain who spread pig bones on the construction site a Mosque was set to be built on, making the land impure and stopping the work.

The group received widespread praise on social media for their efforts.

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) August 8, 2026

PICK UP THE PHONE: How Trump Can End The NFA With One Phone Call.

KEEP YOUR HOUSE CLEAN: roborock Qrevo CurvX Robot Vacuum and Mop. #CommissionEarned