IDEAS YOU CAN USE:  Larry Correia’s A to Z Guide to Anti-Gun Vulture Talking Points.

WE’RE LIVING IN AN ABSURDIST PLAY:  Illegal alien students demand U. California system comply with court ruling, hire them for campus jobs.

WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of InstaPundit.

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OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: How AI is changing spacecraft and satellite operations.

SCIENCE: ‘Exceeded Our Expectations’: One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong.

PROBABLY GOES WITH THE INTERBREEDING: Cave Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture.

BREAKTHROUGH: Omega-3 plus low-dose aspirin produces antibiotic-like results against severe periodontitis.

DOWNFALL:

A Vice-Chancellor reacts to allegations of plagiarism… @NeilThin, @drianpace pic.twitter.com/Gxl2hKzUgS

— Jimmy Jim (@yeatskeats) August 9, 2026

I’m actually surprised it took this long for Hitler to hear the news of Arday.

WELL, ORDINARY CARS ARE SO GOOD NOWADAYS: Nearly 1 in 3 Luxury SUV Buyers Are Switching to Mainstream Brands.

SUNDAY SMILES:

Writing the diary vs hearing back what you wrote in the diary pic.twitter.com/Nj7adbfyrX

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 29, 2026

TREAT YOUR HAIR: Nizoral Anti-Dandruff Shampoo with 1% Ketoconazole. #CommissionEarned

AOC DECLARES MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL: AOC starts process of freezing her eggs, hints at 2028 mindset: ‘I think it’s badass.’

The New York City congresswoman noted that she had a scheduled interview Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week” and planned on taking hormonal shots in its waiting room before going on air to discuss politics.

“I want you all to see that. And because women can do anything, and I think it’s badass that I’m going to be giving myself shots in the green room [as I] get my glam on,” she said.

Egg-harvesting allows women to have some of their unfertilized eggs taken from their ovaries when younger and then store them at subzero temperatures till they are ready to have them implanted either in themselves or a surrogate.

The process increases their chances of a successful pregnancy later in life, as women’s egg quality often declines rapidly in their mid-30s.

So in other words, after 2031: AOC: No, Seriously, We Only Have 12 Years Left.

—Jim Treacher, PJ Media, May 29th, 2019.

#JOURNALISM: Journalists Never Seem to Ask Gun-Grabbers Why Their Predictions of Blood and Death Never Come True.

POSTMODERN FEMINISM IS JUST MARXIST GRIEVANCE CULTURE:

Modern feminism can't agree on what a woman is. It's defended violent male predators in women's prisons and stayed silent on UK rape gangs to avoid being called racist.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I will always defend the rights of women—and therefore I cannot call myself a feminist."

By… pic.twitter.com/nyrtuCroGn

— Restoring the West (@RestoringWest) August 9, 2026

KEEP YOUR MACHINE CLEAN: Affresh Washing Machine Cleaner. #CommissionEarned

THIS SEEMS RIGHT:

The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women.

— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) August 9, 2026

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Nursing babies spit backwash into the breast—and that’s a good thing.

A PROFESSOR INVESTIGATED FOR SAYING “WORD SALAD” Hofstra investigated a professor over a phrase that belongs in roughly every faculty meeting in America. When ordinary criticism can trigger a harassment process, the policy has become the problem. More in this week’s Free Speech Update.

STEADY WORK: SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California.

MAKING YOUR LIFE WORSE IS THEIR CHIEF GOAL: California’s smart inverter push prompts fears home backup could be sidelined when blackouts hit. “Under these newer requirements, inverters are built to help stabilize voltage and frequency and to adjust their output automatically as solar production rises and falls. Comparable concepts are appearing in the national IEEE 1547 standard from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and in interconnection rules adopted in other states. If approved-equipment lists increasingly favor grid-focused designs over older inverters built for backup or off-grid use, households may have a harder time replacing the systems they depend. This can affect refrigerators, medical devices, and internet service during outages.”

I DON’T SUPPOSE BOURBON COUNTS: Is there such a thing as a healthy energy drink? Experts explain.

MATT MARGOLIS: Things Don’t Sound Good for Cancer-Stricken Joe Biden.

In an interview with the BBC on August 8, 2026, Hunter Biden said his father’s stage four prostate cancer has spread into his bones and beyond, describing it as “very painful and very debilitating.” Those are the blunt words of a son watching his father decline in real time.

As you may recall, Joe Biden first announced his cancer diagnosis in May 2025, months after leaving office. The timing of that announcement was… shall we say, suspicious. Many believed the cancer was caught years earlier, and the Bidens simply didn’t disclose it until Biden was out of the White House.

Here’s the thing about prostate cancer screening: a PSA blood test is a standard part of any routine physical for men of a certain age. I had one myself last year at 45, just as part of routine bloodwork. It’s not exotic. It’s not hard to order.

Does anyone seriously believe the president of the United States, a man in his eighties surrounded by a full medical team, wasn’t being screened for one of the most common cancers in older men? If Biden had cancer developing while he sat in the Oval Office, there are only two explanations. Either his doctors missed it, which would be staggering incompetence for a team charged with monitoring the health of the most powerful autopen in the world, or the Bidens knew and weren’t going to reveal the diagnosis until after the election.

Minus Biden’s disastrous debate with Trump, Kamala would be taking office right about now.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:

Wait'll you find out who was JFK's Attorney General. https://t.co/PVoeEZU8lR https://t.co/TAROlMVdsO

— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 8, 2026

THEATER KIDS WREAK HAVOC ON FUN CITY: Anti-rent radical and Mamdani pal who is ‘squatting’ in Brooklyn is Grammy nepo baby.

She’s unplugged from reality.

A rent-striking, rising-star radical orchestrating the Mamdani administration’s socialist housing agenda is the daughter of a famed music studio owner who recorded rock legends like David Bowie, the Ramones, Blondie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, the Foo Fighters and Coldplay, The Post has learned.

While framing herself as a champion of the proletariat, Tracy Rosenthal grew up in a trendy $1.7 million NoMad pad with elite access to the music industry — attending the Grammys at least twice with her dad, four-time winner Steven Rosenthal.

Her father recorded hit albums by some of the world’s biggest artists at the Magic Shop, the SoHo studio he founded in 1988, including Coldplay’s 2008 “Viva la Vida,” which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide; the Foo Fighters’ 2014 “Sonic Highways,” for which he was interviewed in the band’s HBO docuseries; and Bowie’s final album, 2016’s “Blackstar.”

Yet despite her first-class upbringing, she’s been on a four-year “rent strike” since moving back to New York City after a stint in Los Angeles — because the Bolshevik bugged out after spotting a cockroach in her hip $2,300 a month Bed-Stuy apartment.

As Norman Podhoretz wrote in 2007, “Do you realize that every young person in this room is a tragedy to some family or other?”

An incredibly consistent overlap between the categories of communist activist and privileged rich kids who never held real jobs and have defined their entire lives by their desire to rebel against their rich families. https://t.co/JB54sJtZHj

— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 9, 2026