MOSTLY BECAUSE MARX WAS A DUMB ASS:  QotD: Why the revolution envisioned by Marx didn’t happen.

IT APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A TOXIC CLIQUE:  The Actual Problem in the Clancy Mistrial Wasn’t the Holdout — It Was Nurses Explaining Toxicology.

HOW DO YOU LAYER ALL THOSE FACT CHECKERS? AND HOW MUCH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING BETWEEN THE LAYERS?  Fiction-Checkers.

PROPAGANDA ISN’T NEW:  The American Crises.

THE AZTECS WERE NOT NOBLE SAVAGES. WELL, NOT NOBLE AT ANY RATE:  REVIEW: Aztecs, by Inga Clendinnen.

I MUST INFORM YOU I’M NOT PART OF A HIVE MIND:  The Collective.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Dre Greenlaw wonders if Antarctica is ‘a lie’ during 49ers’ Australia trip.

Many San Francisco 49ers plans are experiencing Australia for the first time this week.

Yet, 49ers star linebacker Dre Greenlaw seems to be more concerned with another continent. He made that known during a wild exchange Greenlaw had with reporters on Tuesday morning.

A reporter asked Greenlaw, “Do you have any questions you’d want to ask Australians?” per ESPN’s Nick Wagoner. San Francisco is in Australia ahead of their NFL regular season opener against the Los Angeles Rams.

“I mean, how far are we from Antarctica? That’s what I got. We’re right on top of it, huh? Does It snow probably pretty bad here? So Antarctica, is it a lie?” Greenlaw responded.

After being told the continent is indeed there, Greenlaw said, “Y’all been there before?”

Hey, back in 2023, NPR warned us that “Antarctica is melting and we all need to adapt, a trio of climate analyses show.” I blame Trump for how quickly it completely disappeared.

UPDATE: Steelers’ DK Metcalf Believes Antarctica Has ‘Civilization Inside Earth.’

When did the NFL become a hotbed of Antarctica thrutherism?

ELON-HATING UNIVERSITIES PUT IN A BAD SITUATION: UNC’s endowment returned more than 30%, helped by its early SpaceX investment.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Hi @CalStateLA, this your professor encouraging people to “f*** up” ICE agents?? Any comment? https://t.co/Z03VtfesT9

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 8, 2026

HMM: Blocking a Single Immune Signal Made Old Mice Act Young Again.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Happens When You Stand Next To An Atomic Bomb? “The X-rays do not pass straight through the body and strip every atom bare at once.”

So you’d have that going for you, however briefly.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The Unexpected Return of Duck and Cover.

DON’T BLAME HUNTERS FOR THAT: Africa’s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Losing a tooth? Periodontists are using your own blood to rebuild the bone around it.

PRIORITIES:

The LA County Board of Supervisors is taking $5 million of the original $10 million set aside to help fire victims and using it to pay rent for migrant households that claim economic hardship because of ICE.
Government programs always start off sounding so good… pic.twitter.com/9nSeavIwAC

— Lisa Cusack (@lisacusack_ca) September 8, 2026

ICYMI: Drone Warfare Comes for Shoplifters… and for You?

CHARLES COOKE: Look Back in Anger at 9/11.

Nothing good came of September 11. Pearl Harbor, like Operation Barbarossa, brought about the conditions that guaranteed the Allies would win the war. Antietam led to the Emancipation Proclamation and, eventually, to the defeat of the Confederacy. September 11 had no salutary consequence. We would, without doubt, be better off if it had never happened. A quarter of a century later, I still find myself fantasizing idly about going back in time to stop it. When I visit New York, I look at the skyline and wonder if, somehow, the Twin Towers will magically be there. Even now, when I see the footage, I hope, impotently, that, perhaps this time, the planes will miss. They never do. They never will. Each time I watch it, three of the four will ineluctably hit their targets, and I will sit in stunned disbelief as if I were seeing it for the very first time. I cannot make it go away. It is indelible.

It could have been worse. We now know what we did not at the time. We know that such attacks did not become commonplace. We know that the day’s events did not represent the opening salvo in a world war. We know that they did not permanently scar America’s sense of self — and, indeed, that, far from dwelling on it, Americans now have to be urged to “never forget.” I am at no risk of that.

But many will, alas:

The funny thing about this post is that they were taking so much heat for even asking the question that they’ve already deleted page their post links to. The not funny thing about it is that they posted it. https://t.co/ZdEunhEpVY pic.twitter.com/2dpneeK6eM

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 8, 2026

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Inside Porsche’s Taycan Factory as Questions Grow Over Its Future.

AGING: It Looks Like We’ve Made a Big Step in Combating Alzheimer’s. “In mid-July, the FDA approved Leqembi, a series of injections that specifically target the plaques that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Those plaques are what cause the memory loss, behavioral changes, and terminal decline.”

THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING:

Unreal. https://t.co/ZX3WrHkfpt pic.twitter.com/bok1lSyakN

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 8, 2026

Full story here but paywalled.

ERIC FLORACK’S DAILY: ‘Trust Us, We’re Normal Now’ — and Other Punchlines.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: True Classic Mens T-Shirts – Short Sleeve Crew. #CommissionEarned

SHOOT THEM: Home Invader’ Is the One Species Most States Still Don’t Protect.

HMM: US needs mechanics and nurses, but kids want to be influencers.

Young people with realistic goals are likely to succeed. But few students get useful career guidance, writes Anne Kim, senior fellow at FutureEd, on The 74.

Counselors are in short supply, and high schools are still pushing “college for all,” writes Kim. “Despite increasing interest in alternative pathways,” many students — and high school counselors — are “unaware of the careers they could pursue, the availability of jobs locally, and the skills required.” In a 2024 survey, two-thirds of young adults ages 16 to 24 said they “do not know exactly what career they want to pursue.”

The dream career for nearly half of Gen Z respondents in a 2025 Morning Consult survey is “content creator,” notes Kim’s Future Shock report. Working in “media and entertainment” is also a popular goal. They think it’s an easy path to riches. Only a third want a “traditional job.”

No different than kids from previous generations wanting to grow up to be baseball players or movie stars, really.

WHEN SECONDS COUNT…:

Firefighters in Ceuta, Spain, climbed onto an aerial ladder truck and unfurled a huge Spanish flag alongside a banner reading “EUROPE HELP” as residents gathered to demand action over the migration crisis facing the Spanish enclave.

The demonstration was organized by Ceuta’s… pic.twitter.com/QzAIERAUBS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 8, 2026

…Europe is nowhere to be found.