CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ Really ‘Hasan Piker: The Movie?’
Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing a healthcare CEO by shooting him from behind. The murder stained the nation’s soul, in part, because so many Americans rallied behind the alleged assassin.
They even made a musical about him.
Now, Hollywood is doing more than evoking that horrific crime. It’s tapping into a DSA-style assault on capitalism via “How to Rob a Bank.”
Hollywood seems determined not to learn.
GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Socialist Nithya Raman Brags About Getting Crosswalk Done, There’s Just ONE Big Problem.
So wait wait wait…
You are celebrating for
**checks notes**
…painting a CRACKED ROAD????????
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 27, 2026
Fresh paint (that took almost a year to finally apply) on crumbling infrastructure is the perfect metaphor for L.A. in the 21st century.
CRUEL BUT FAIR:
HILARIOUS 😂
Woman MOCKS Lindsay Clancy supporters with extreme accuracy‼️
This is the funniest most spot on 🎯 video you will see all day.
Mockery is the most effective way to battle back against the insanity. pic.twitter.com/ac4RmvP76p
— Cinema Shogun (@CinemaShogun) August 26, 2026
VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa, HAMAS, and the IRGC Have Some Unsavory Friends in Common. “Rose City Antifa and its fellow travelers and hangers-on, for years, have attempted to create a hacking collective in Portland to infiltrate local tech companies and hijack those companies that do national security-level work. It’s unclear if they succeeded, but the news from the State Department about working with the Italy-based hackers’ collective shows that the group cobbled together the technological superstructure to allow these anti-Western anarchists to operate and organize while remaining undetected.”
LIMITED TIME DEAL: medicube Toner Pads Zero Pore Pad 2.0 for Exfoliation and Pore Care. #CommissionEarned
NEWS YOU PROBABLY CAN’T USE: Polynesian Wayfinding: How these sailors navigated the open Pacific with no compass or GPS. “Piailug was born in 1932 and became a master navigator, or palu, by the time he was 18. He practiced the art of wayfinding for nearly 60 years until shortly before his death in 2010. Having become concerned that the old knowledge would be lost, Pialiug worked with the Polynesian Voyaging Society to recreate lost techniques, passing on his wisdom to sailors like Thompson.”
Vikings navigated to America in similar fashion, though I haven’t heard that anyone is practicing their methods now.
MONORAIL! Austin Seeking Another Rail Boondoggle?
You might remember Austin’s light rail boondoggle, which is now scaled back, behind schedule, and very possibly illegal. (For the current status on that project, see here.)
Now more Austin elites, in the form of the Travis County Commissioner’s Court (an organization so far in the shadow of the Austin City Council that I didn’t previously have a tag for them) has funded the study of a high speed rail line between Austin and San Antonio, the price tag for which would be a staggering $13.5 Billion.
Get your act together, Austin — this is piker-level grifting. California is spending 10 times that much on a rail line that doesn’t even connect the two big cities it’s supposed to connect.
WAIT! THE WNBA WAS RELEVANT? The WNBA Keeps Making Itself Irrelevant.
LOOKS LIKE A GOOD READ:
"To be published soon—and banned [by the academic left] in a classroom near you!" @mboudry's defense of…liberalism. https://t.co/sbPn7a0Z3V
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) August 27, 2026
20 CANADIANS WERE MURDERED IN THOSE TERRORIST ATTACKS: Canadian Broadcasting Instructs Staff Not to Refer to the 9/11 Attacks As ‘Terrorism.’
EVERGREEN QUESTION: Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry?
Recently, Peachy Keenan, the pseudonym of a well-known cultural commentator, writer, and critic of modern feminism, asked a question on her X account that succinctly summarizes the state of American feminism and the white liberal woman:
Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.
Yes, they won, but that hasn’t changed the victim (women) and oppressor (white men) mindset that still permeates this irrational subculture. They will remain angry because they will never succeed in their quixotic quest for “meaning in their lives” based on their belief that happiness lies in “making a difference” by defeating societal demons such as “the patriarchy” or “White Supremacy.” In their addled thought process, there is no such thing as winning, only identifying new causes to keep this charade alive in perpetuity.
Read the whole thing.
Via:
"Because the United States is living in the feminist future that these witless, self-indulgent, agnostic, supposedly well-educated, and miserable women promoted, there is an ongoing calamitous erosion of a unique American civilization." https://t.co/Golc7PG0Tb
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) August 27, 2026
HEALTH: FDA approves breakthrough drug to treat advanced pancreatic cancer. “A late-stage clinical trial with 500 patients showed that the median overall survival nearly doubled to more than 13 months versus a median survival of about 6.7 months for those being treated with standard chemotherapy.”
MAKE GIVING AMERICAN KIDS STARTER JOBS GREAT AGAIN:
They clubs used to hire college and high school kids.
They don't need to have foreigners to operate. It is a choice. https://t.co/ElIAuXBp00
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) August 27, 2026
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Race Hustlers Redux: How Low Can the Grievance Grifters Go?
CLEAN YOUR TEETH: Plaque Remover for Teeth. #CommissionEarned
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Viral video of huge homeless encampment near UC Berkeley prompts alarm.
A viral video taken by a parent recently dropping her son off at UC Berkeley prompted alarm by revealing large camping tents, trash, sleeping bags, garbage, tarps, dirty mattresses, bikes and other debris piled up in heaps and spilling out into the street for several blocks.
“I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments,” parent Lyanne Melendez posted on social media Aug. 19.
The video, which has racked up more than 3.5 million views, depicts a long-standing homeless encampment at Eighth and Harrison streets in the city of Berkeley. While city officials and residents have battled for years to clean it up, the video prompted a new wave of headlines.
It sits directly outside of the UC Berkeley University Village, which houses roughly 3,500 residents, including more than 700 residents under the age of 18, according to a UC Berkeley housing website.
Berkeley city officials have tried to shut down the encampment but have been blocked by homeless rights advocates in court.
Sure, Berkeley was crazy when I lived in the Bay Area — but it was at least clean.
That was three decades ago, however, and even then the decline felt baked-in.
EVERYTHING THE LEFT CONTROLS IS UGLY: Viral video of huge homeless encampment near UC Berkeley prompts alarm.
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT ‘TIL IT’S TAKEN AWAY BY BAD GOVERNANCE:
"Abundance" had to become a slogan and an aspiration in Blue States because it is merely the reality of governance in Red States such that it requires no name.
Armand's tweet neatly summarizes why it will remain that way: a vast army of donor and state-funded rent-seekers who… https://t.co/Ck0cGbqwKm
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 26, 2026
GOING WELL BEYOND THE USUAL “FORD TOUGH”: US Army Tests Self-Driving Ford Truck With Drone-Killing Turret. “Weighing about 23 kilograms (50 pounds), the turret can reportedly engage fast-moving targets as small as 7 inches (18 centimeters) that are as far out as 100 meters (328 feet).”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Minnesota State Mankato set to lay off employees and raise tuition to combat deficit.
THIS IS REAL CHANGE:
Trump's actions against NGOs, gutting of USAID, sanctions on ICC, leaving 66 world organizations, pulling back Civil Rights rulings & DEI regulations, firing federal workers, pursuing election integrity and clearing out fraud all damage the power of the foreign and domestic left. pic.twitter.com/MNicp2tM8D
— Prowler (@derzum_) August 26, 2026
UPDATE: Sorry, embed was missing before. Fixed now!
HA-HA, NO: Jill Biden says husband should be remembered as ‘hero’ for dropping out.
In an interview with The Jamie Kern Lima Show, the former first lady didn’t directly answer whether she was the “Lady McBeth” who pushed Joe Biden to spend four more years in the White House and instead laid the blame at the feet of their long-serving staff.
She confirmed that Biden, 83, originally intended to serve only one term as president but claimed, after Republicans had a poor showing in the 2022 midterms, Democratic Party members and his own advisers said he needed to run for re-election.
“After the midterms occurred and we won the midterms, and how you know the Democrats were doing so well, and everybody was coming to Joe and to me and saying, ‘He’s got to keep going,’” she said. “His advisors were saying that. People were saying that everywhere, out on the road. He has to run.”
There was nothing heroic about Biden finally getting forced to drop out after his debate “performance” against Trump.
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