HE’S A PLAGIARIST AND A FABULIST, AND NEEDS TO BE FIRED. END OF DISCUSSION:

"We have a situation where the right is demonstrably 100% correct and the left is 100% wrong, so really there's no way to have a sensible discussion."

Interesting analysis in @nytimes pic.twitter.com/Q3GOcN0Ny1

— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) August 4, 2026

Either academia is for academics, or it’s a DEI jobs program for the otherwise untrustworthy and unemployable. But it can’t be both.

TRUMP’S WORST ENEMY – HIMSELF: This by Patriot Post’s Nate Jackson captures the why using two very recent illustrations.

SPAIN: Nick Shirley’s New Video Dismantles the Left’s Narrative on Ceuta’s Migrant Crisis

DO WOMEN KNOW ABOUT SHRINKAGE? ‘Gym penis’ is real, says nurse — why it happens and when to see a professional.

SPACE: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launching on a Falcon Heavy on 30 August 2026, carries a mirror the size of Hubble’s but sees a patch of sky about a hundred times wider.

Two big questions drive the mission. The first is dark energy, the name given to whatever is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Roman will survey something on the order of a billion galaxies, measuring how they are distributed and subtly distorted, to trace how that expansion has changed across the history of the universe. It is not designed to explain dark energy so much as to measure its effects far more precisely than we can now.

The second is planets. Roman will stare at the crowded star fields toward the centre of our galaxy and watch for gravitational microlensing, the brief brightening that happens when one star, and any planets around it, passes in front of another and bends its light. Monitoring something like 200 million stars, it is expected to find well over a thousand planets this way, including cold, distant worlds far from their stars that other techniques tend to miss.

But have patience: “After the 30 August launch, Roman faces the same outbound trip as Webb did, out to the second Lagrange point about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, followed by months of commissioning before any science begins in earnest.”

SPEAKING POWER TO TRUTH OR SOMETHING:

Journalists are aggressively defending Fauci, despite his diaries showing that he repeatedly lied to the public. The reason is that, after years of dehumanizing Covid dissidents based on his lies, media elites can’t cope with the enormity of their failure. By @GalexyBrane pic.twitter.com/pvjqzQd2X2

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) August 4, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES: Mamdani’s War on New York Business Is a Double-Header.

BE PREPARED: The Preparation: How To Become Competent, Confident, and Dangerous. #CommissionEarned

THE LEFT IS NOT ONLY MORE ABSURD THAN YOU IMAGINE, IT IS MORE ABSURD THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE:

The vice president started raising chickens, so the Washington Post:
-called the city of DC on him and tried to get him cited for a zoning infraction
-they called a "chicken expert": a they/them who has a chicken as an emotional support animal because of long COVID pic.twitter.com/eCRIE9qTym

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) August 3, 2026

Kafka today reads like a news report, back when you could still trust news reports.

HOOKERS AND BLOW AIN’T CHEAP, FOLKS: From Influence Peddler to Starving Artist: Hunter Biden Claims Family is Broke in Defaulting on $17 Million Bill.

In a deposition in ongoing litigation with the law firm Winston Taylor, Hunter claimed an inability to pay the $17 million he owes his lawyers for representing him in criminal prosecutions, congressional investigations, and civil lawsuits.

Hunter claimed under oath that “I don’t own anything of any value other than — and I don’t know the value of it — my paintings which I painted myself. So that’s it. And I don’t even have any other assets at all, stocks, bonds, anything like that, savings accounts.” He also added, “My family doesn’t have any money, and it’s not their debt anyway.”

The statement about his family is curious, since Joe and Jill Biden recently received numerous book contracts and were thought to be worth millions. However, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that Joe Biden is struggling with $800,000 in debt and, ironically, increased property taxes in his blue state of Delaware on his $2.7 million home. (Moving to Florida like many fleeing blue state taxes is not a viable option for the Bidens).

Worse yet, no one wants Biden to do speeches and appearances, cutting off a lucrative post-presidency income. Not only is Biden obviously diminished in his ability to give a speech, but many Democrats blame him for the reelection of Trump by clinging to power despite his obvious deteriorating mental and physical condition.

That’s a sad state of affairs for Joe Biden, but it’s also an accurate reflection of what his cabal did to the nation.

SCIENCE: Penn professor claims ‘cisness’ is unnatural, ‘sex isn’t real’ in new book.

If you think sex isn’t real, you’re doing it wrong.

YES:

This is brilliant:

“The Constitution was not written as a suggestion for calm weather. It was written to restrain power precisely when fear is highest and the people in charge are most certain they know better.” https://t.co/w141KLhMhN

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) August 4, 2026

A DISASTER IN THE MAKING: Scamdani and the Truth About City-Owned Grocery Stores.

BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket. #CommissionEarned

MASSIVE RESISTANCE: WVU closed DEI office, but faculty DEI toolkit remains online.

FROM SUICIDAL EMPATHY TO SUICIDAL ANTIPATHY:

This sounds like a typical "Irish" joke, but it's true:

The Irish Government bought a new €53m jet.

And insisted on removing an Israeli-made navigational system.

Now it can't land in the fog 🤣🤣🤣https://t.co/wgeBO3pfRW

— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) August 4, 2026

I’m sure it’s fine — not much fog in Ireland, after all.

MAGA: U.S. Manufacturing Surges to Four‑Year High as Economy Expands Under Trump. “U.S. manufacturing activity surged to a four‑year high in July, with the ISM PMI rising to 55.6, the strongest reading since May 2022 [1]. The surge is driven by record order growth, AI investment, and a rebound in factory employment, with the employment index at 52.8, the highest since August 2022 [1]. Treasury officials say the economy remains robust, with real GDP growing 1.5% in Q2 2026 and business investment up 8.4%.”

Quarterly growth wasn’t great, but manufacturing signals confidence in the future.

COLLEGES HAVE SPENT DECADES WRITING RULES THAT MAKE FREE SPEECH OPTIONAL: The good news is that the worst campus speech codes are finally retreating. FIRE’s “green light” schools have climbed from 8 in 2006 to 76 today, while “red light” schools have hit a record low. But nearly 70% still earn a “yellow light.” Progress, yes. Mission accomplished, no.

THIS ISN’T ABOUT A PARTICULAR ISSUE, BUT A TOXIC MEDIA AND AN UNWILLINGNESS OR INABILITY TO THINK CRITICALLY:

Everyone should read this. I don’t think there’s a bigger political/societal issue in 2026 than social media and America’s cognitive health. https://t.co/72vj4AuT7K

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) August 3, 2026

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Prefer That My Groceries Not Taste Like Commie Terrorist. “Even if the government could own anything, the thought of it is repulsive. Bureaucracy never brings anything good to the table. The bigger the bureaucracy, the worse it makes things. New York City’s population is greater than the populations of three-quarters of the states in this country, so its bureaucracy is the wrong kind of robust.”

AMERICA’S FIRST PRESIDENT UNDERSTOOD THAT POWER MEANS KNOWING WHEN TO GIVE IT UP: H.W. Brands discusses George Washington’s character, his defense of national unity, and why the republic depended on a leader who put duty above ambition.

DON SURBER: It’s the candidates, stupid: Democrat nominees are creepy and kooky, mysterious and spooky. They’re all together ooky.

JUST ANOTHER “ISM” FOR MISERY: ‘Democratic socialism’ just an opening act for communism.

DSA calls for nationalization of railroads, utilities, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, insurance, real estate, finance, and hospitals along with government control of the media and internet. It would free prisoners, abolish prisons, disarm and defund the police, “demilitarize” the border, end detention and deportation of illegal immigrants, and eliminate ICE. On national defense and foreign policy, DSA would dramatically cut U.S. military spending, quit NATO, and close all U.S. military bases in foreign countries.

In a blatant affront to the U.S Constitution, DSA’s platform would also trash the institutions of checks and balances, and the separation of powers by eliminating the presidency, the Senate, and the Supreme Court with all power vested in the House of Representatives. This moronic diatribe isn’t a “platform,” it’s a temper tantrum. Nonetheless, DSA is admired and taken seriously by the Democrat Progressive Caucus in Congress. The deafening silence you hear is from other Democrats who lack the courage to call the DSA out for the insurrectionists they are.

Furthermore, the DSA platform declares, “Our fight is to end capitalist exploitation. In overwhelming the old barbaric, order of capitalism, the working class will not only liberate itself from its own shackles, but all of humanity from the parasitic death-drive of capitalism.” It’s no coincidence that this is the language of Marx and Lenin. DSA’s notion of “democratic socialism” is only foreplay for outright communism. In the words of David Jenkins, a top leader of DSA, “Our goal is communism.”

And already they’ve either taken over, co-opted, or bullied a sizable fraction of the Democrat Party.

THIS IS NOT A RECIPE FOR SOCIETAL SUCCESS: Status matters so much for success in our world now because we so often just trust high status folks to run stuff, without much accountability re concrete performance metrics.