STANDING UP AGAINST CRIME:

Little Italy, in Chicago, famously had one of the urban USA's lowest burglary rates for decades. https://t.co/8Thtai0hEA

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 25, 2026

INCENTIVES WORK:

Dear Big Tech,

Build the community a new school and a new football stadium. You’ll get your data center.

You’re welcome.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 25, 2026

I UNDERSTOOD THIS REFERENCE: Mojtaba Khamenei Is (Still) Dead.

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM:

Let's translate – the Trump administration is urging schools to suspend troublemakers even if they are predominantly black, so that the kids of whatever race and background, who actually want to do some learning, are able to do so. https://t.co/9RMcYjgl4Z

— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) August 25, 2026

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Theophany.

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

…or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

OBSESSION WITH DEI RUINS EVERYTHING:  Marvel MISTREATS its Black Heroes, Actually. (Video.)

WE’RE LIVING IN THE FUTURE NOW:  Ukrainian drones attack Russia’s Plesetsk military spaceport.

WOULDN’T LOBOTOMIES BE MORE HUMANE?  Monmouth U. Trains Educational Counseling Majors to be ‘Social Justice Advocates’.

GOOD:  HUD To Investigate UMass-Amherst and U. Nevada-Reno Over Race-Focused Dorms After Equal Protection Project Complaints.

JAPAN FIGHTS BACK:  Higher Residence Permit Procedure Fees for Foreigners in Japan Will Take Effect on October 1.

AND HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE:  How Gavin Newsom Subsidized the Migrant Invasion. The California governor has spent nearly $1 billion on nonprofits that want, among other things, to dismantle the border, “abolish ICE,” and help immigrants “living with HIV.”

MORE LIKE THIS. I TRUST PRIVATELY FOUNDED RESEARCH BETTER THAN GOVERNMENT PAID RESEARCH:  A horrible tragedy inspires a billionaire to fund medical advances.

AGAIN, INTERESTING TIMES:  GTA VI Will Burn Down The Game Industry. Here’s Why. (Video.)

RATHER THE BOOM ITSELF IS THE REASON:  One very critical thing to know/remember about ‘the trades’ and ‘why did we get rid of votech in HS?’ I’m a late boomer and not one to automatically blame everything on boomers, but… the boomers are a big reason.

RIDICULOUS:  Abdul El-Sayed asks Fox News’ Jesse Watters ‘Are you circumcised?’ in bizarre moment as he defends sex change surgery for minors.

INTERESTING TIMES:  Oh yeah, this’ll be fun.

THEY’LL BREAK THEIR TEETH:  U.S. Muslim Brotherhood authorizes $140M annually to help Muslims take control of American government.

IT DOESN’T COMPUTE:  I Had the Effing Denominator.

ONLY MARXISTS JUDGE ENTIRE GROUPS OF PEOPLE AS THOUGH THEY WERE UNIFORM WIDGETS:  Still About Men And Women.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, IT’S HITTING HARD HERE IN DOLLY COUNTRY:

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven – and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it. pic.twitter.com/rpeIUuumaC

— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) August 25, 2026

Meanwhile, at my house:

This picture of Dolly is in my dining room. She makes us smile. RIP dolly. pic.twitter.com/X3hSAjcmPf

— Helen Smith (@HelenSmithPhD) August 25, 2026

Flashback: Dolly Parton on the Cas Walker show on local Knoxville TV 1967.

Plus, 14 year old Dolly Parton in Fountain City, Knoxville.

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER: It’s been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back? The debate as to whether Pluto is a dwarf planet, or a fully fledged planet, continues to rage.

ABE GREENWALD: Harping on Natalie.

All the fuss began a week and a half ago, when Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia made a dig about the two of them. Trump, he said, “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.” Ossoff was referring to Trump’s covertly switching planes on his return from Turkey in July. The president had left Marco Rubio (and others) on the possibly targeted Air Force One while making off with a small group including Harp.

This became a juicy story for several reasons. Harp is an attractive young woman who’s always at Trump’s side, and Ossoff seemed to be insinuating that there’s something inappropriate about their mutual fondness. And when Ossoff, a possible Democratic contender in 2028, then denied that he was implying anything of the sort, a bipartisan game of gotcha was underway. While Republicans voiced their disgust over Ossoff’s innuendo, Democrats and liberal media went digging into Harp.

Which is interesting. Because while the left went looking for dirt in the life and letters and family members of a young woman who had survived bone cancer, lost her father to suicide, and committed the crime of working for Trump, feminists were beginning to organize in support of Lindsay Clancy, a suburban mother who had killed her three small children.

That’s just an aside I couldn’t resist. What’s more surprising is that the tale of the president and his loyal aide makes Trump look better than any story I’ve ever read about him.

Read the whole thing.

SUGAR ISN’T GOOD FOR YOU: These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic. “Compared with the babies who didn’t experience sugar rationing, the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were 69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives. They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower), lung cancer (41 percent lower), rectal cancer (40 percent lower), and breast cancer (36 percent lower). The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres – the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic material, which are linked to longevity.”

THIS ARTICLE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A PICTURE OF A HAMBURGER, THOSE AREN’T ULTRAPROCESSED: Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to 30% Higher Prostate Cancer Risk.