August 30, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE AND HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED:

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

A RIOT IS THE VOICE OF THE UNHEARD:

Posted at 8:05 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN:

Flashback:

How It Started: Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.

—The London Independent, March 20th, 2000.

How it’s going: Could Britain face a winter ice age? How future temperatures could plummet due to climate change.

—Sky News, June 11th, 2025.

Leonard Nimoy, call your office!

And you too, Stephen Schneider, who appeared in the above episode, only to change his mind decades later and rail on about the dangers of global warming:

Once again, Trump is saving England from itself!

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Posted at 7:32 am by Glenn Reynolds

AMERICA’S ENEMIES SYNCHRONIZE THEIR MESSAGING:

UPDATE:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

JONATHAN TURLEY: Judge Talwani and why liberal complaints about the ‘shadow docket’ are so hollow.

As with the national injunctions that plagued the Trump administration in its first year, this tactic was all too familiar. Litigants would go to liberal judges in Washington, Boston, and other blue cities to secure injunctions that would take years to fully litigate. That approach effectively allowed individual judges to pursue their own preferred policies or to prevent a president from carrying out promises made during an election. At most, the president might have a year left after these cases slogged through the conventional appellate process. It is an administrative version of the old adage that “justice delayed is justice denied.”

What concerned the justices was that many of these injunctions directly contravened earlier precedent, exposing the cynical purpose of these orders. For a president to be able to carry out major changes, he had to run a gauntlet of hundreds of judges, any one of whom could effectively negate reforms. In response, the Supreme Court ramped up the use of the emergency docket and cracked down on national injunctions, quickly reversing the rapidly incr

With the midterm elections rapidly approaching, the odds favor challengers in either running out the clock or prevailing on the merits on the mail-in ballots. But Talwani and some other judges have reinforced suspicions of the Roberts court that some courts are willing allies of partisan groups in seeking to gum up the system.

Ironically, Roberts is one of the most likely conservative justices to be concerned with the Trump administration’s effort to force election integrity reforms on the states. Either way, it is the shadow of these judges, not the docket, that is casting the most ominous concern for many of the Supreme Court justices.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

August 29, 2026

HOW IT STARTED: Just go, Rambo.

At least one Connecticut newspaper is having some fun with the dissembling of U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal about what he did during the Vietnam War.

The Republican American of Waterbury has taken to calling the brittle, strikingly thin Blumenthal “Rambo,” after the beefy fictional hero of cinematic treatments of the war.

And the newspaper has, with tongue undeniably in cheek, has taken to calling “Rambogate” the furor that has erupted over Blumenthal’s periodic false claims to have served in Vietnam.

How It’s Going:

How retarded do you have to be not know the purpose of the yellow safety stripe on the platform of an Amtrak station?

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Burning Man tells AI glasses wearers: Don’t be a creep, get permission to record.

  • Burning Man organizers have published the 2026 survival guide.

  • In it, they say attendees (nicknamed “Burners”) are allowed to bring smart glasses, but to be mindful of how they use them.

  • The guide says they should ask before recording others. On socials, some Burners are plotting how to get them barred.

Smart glasses are allowed at Burning Man 2026. Organizers say: Just don’t be a creep about it.

“Before using any device — including cellphones, cameras, or smart eyewear — you must ask and receive permission from anyone who may appear in your frame, whether they are the main subject or in the background,” Burning Man’s 2026 Survival Guide says. “This applies to people’s personal moments and their creative offerings alike.”

Burning Man seems awfully xenophobic — why don’t they want Kenyans to live vicariously by seeing images and video of the festival? Meta Glasses Send Nude, Bathroom Photos Unknowingly to Kenyan Workers for Review.

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

INGSOC, THE EARLY DAYS:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

JIM GERAGHTY: Finally, ICE Catches and Detains the Worst of the Worst.

[Milo] Yiannopoulos, the controversy-courting gadfly who was once driven from social media for stating that sexual relationships between teenage boys and adults could happen “perfectly consensually” and can be positive experiences for adolescents, is as subject to the law as anyone else. (Onetime immigration enforcement hardliners are now arguing that Yiannopoulos should be allowed to stay, because he is “spiritually American.” The grifter class knows nothing, understands nothing, and believes nothing, beyond “I should get what I want.”)

Usually, the less attention paid to him, the better, but the last time I paid attention to him, Yiannopoulos was contending that there was a possibility that Charlie Kirk faked his own death.

He’s your problem now, United Kingdom.

But for once, is ICE being cruel and over the top in punishing an illegal immigrant?

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll