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August 27, 2026

IN CASE YOU FORGOT, WE LIVE IN THE FUTURE: Spaceports: What works and what doesn’t.

O’KEEFE DESERVES A MEDAL FOR THIS AND SO MUCH MORE: James O’Keefe Just Put Lisa Murkowski’s Anti-SAVE America Act Stance Through the Shredder.

SHE’S BEEN A CRYPTO COMMUNIST HER WHOLE LIFE: Hillary Clinton Suggests Rise of Socialism in the Democratic Party is ‘Healthy’.

HORRIFYING: Himalayan Landslide Triggers Catastrophic Flood at Nepal-Tibet Border.

LIKE WE DIDN’T ALL KNOW THAT: El-Sayed’s Sister Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Activist Profs Politically Proselytizing Students.

SHE’S SPOT ON: I always understood why the Second Amendment was constitutionally protected. What I never really understood was why people called it a natural right. Then I moved from New York to Florida.

UN OUT OF THE US, US OUT OF THE UN: Watchdog demands apology after UN memorial erroneously honors Hamas terrorist. UN spokesman appears to blame Israel for not objecting to UNRWA employee list.

THIS IS INTERESTING: A promising development.

CLIMATE CULTISTS SUFFER FROM ILLUSIONS OF HUMAN OMNIPOTENCE: QotD: Putting US power generation in perspective.

A NEW WORLD IS BEING BORN. LET’S NOT SCREW IT UP WITH SOCIALISM: Medicine is Becoming Programmable.

THERE ARE THINGS NONE OF US CAN REMEMBER WHILE REMAINING CALM: True horrors of Biden’s Afghan pullout emerge on 5th anniversary of suicide bomb: ‘Witness to atrocities, war crimes’.

HE’S RIGHT. YOU’D BEST OPEN YOUR DUMBRELLA. IT’S STUPID OUT THERE: Target Rich Environment volume five.

August 26, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

DEMOCRAT INSTRUCTS PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: Democrat Debbie Dingell: Don’t ask me about Hasan Piker.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Tech bros must channel the moguls of old to get back in America’s good graces. “At the heart of the widespread bipartisan resistance to data centers and Flock cameras is our distrust of the people behind them.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Starbase Louisiana: SpaceX announces enormous $100 billion Starbase launch site.

YOUR TERMS ARE ACCEPTABLE:

The Atlantic’s far right hit piece scores … with the far right!

(Whenever I see the words “far right” these days, I think, “Oh, you mean normal”) https://t.co/7zNXdzpZqu

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) August 26, 2026

FINALLY: NFL ends Pro Bowl after decades of declining interest, will turn all-star game into an award for 88 players.

Meanwhile in college football: NCAA Conference Issues Big Ruling on NFL Players Rejoining College Football. “College sports have become so chaotic that apparently we now need an explicit rule saying you can’t go to the NFL, sign a professional contract, get cut and then come back to college. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) made that rule official Tuesday.”

The NFL concurs:

Sources: The NFL will provide clarity to clubs later today regarding league rules governing player eligibility that have been in place and remain unaltered. A player that goes back to college this season will be prohibited from signing with an NFL team this year.

A player signed… pic.twitter.com/IvohMZxXX8

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) August 26, 2026

Schefter’s tweet concludes, “A player signed to an NFL contract who is subsequently cut is a free agent. He may sign with another NFL club, the CFL or return to college, but that player is considered a free agent and will not be subject to a future draft.”

LET’S NOT RUSH INTO THINGS: Military trial date set for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2006. Mohammed “will stand trial starting in June 2028.”

TORONTO SUN APPARENTLY WORKING REUTERS’ SIDE OF THE STREET: Toronto Sun Columnist: New Memo Tells CBC Journalists Not to Refer to 9/11 As a Terrorist Attack.

CBC can't get anymore ridiculous right?
New memo tells CBC journalists not to call 9/11 a terrorist attack.
What do you think of this?https://t.co/qjl1S8zp48

— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) August 26, 2026

As Stephen Jukes, global news editor for Reuters infamously told his contributors after September 11th, “We all know that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter and that Reuters upholds the principle that we do not use the word terrorist. To be frank, it adds little to call the attack on the World Trade Center a terrorist attack.”