YOU SAY “MISINFORMATION,” I SAY “SQUANDERING OF PUBLIC TRUST.” Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention – but misinformation about mRNA vaccines threatens their potential.
August 24, 2026
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
The people who made a secular religion out of George Floyd’s death are here to tell you that you shouldn’t dare politicize Iryna Zarutska’s murder pic.twitter.com/zfc4onMCID
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 24, 2026
THE STRUGGLE WITH TEACHING ‘FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY’ ON A 2026 CAMPUS: “FAD is a Catholic idea that is being introduced into a university system that is profoundly Unitarian Universalist.”
THOMAS JIPPING & HANS VON SPAKOVSKY: August’s Dishonorable Judicial Conduct Award: Judges Balk at White House Ballroom.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Abruptly Postpones Ambitious Lunar Mission.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Ninth Circuit Smacks Down Anti-Gun Orgs That Sued ATF Claiming it Didn’t Regulate ‘Ghost Guns’ Nearly Enough. “The panel found California and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence had no standing to challenge a final rule created by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
YES:
Huck Finn deciding, “All right, then, I’ll go to hell,” is the most important line in American literature, and its most powerful. The book must be mandatory reading for our kids. https://t.co/2geVoeGBe7
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) August 24, 2026
CDR Sal adds: “For those who are not aware of the story, Huck must choose between returning the runaway slave Jim or helping him stay free. Huck’s society and laws tell him it is a sin to help an escaped slave. Huck sees the evil and error of his society and laws compared to the goodness of Jim and the injustice of slavery. It is about not just moral courage, but absolute courage… and friendship.”
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: Why Is the Hulk (and Marvel) Trying to Smash Jews?
I TRY TO EXERCISE IN THE HEAT: Why Elite Athletes Train In The Heat & The Science Says You Should Too.
GLENN ONCE SUGGESTED LIMITING NONPROFIT STATUS TO GROUPS THAT ACTUALLY HELP THE NEEDY…:
We need to find a new name for “nonprofits“. They are very profitable for those who run them. https://t.co/cgINRwbLpJ
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) August 24, 2026
…and I’d just add some uncomfortably rigorous auditing as needed.
DECOUPLING: Google Pulls Every Last Pixel Product Out of China. “Google is cutting Beijing out of its hardware supply chain entirely. Starting in 2027, every Pixel phone, watch, and earbud will be manufactured in Vietnam and India, eliminating China’s decade-long foothold in the company’s manufacturing. Only Samsung has made a cleaner break among global smartphone brands.”
COMICALLY DESPERATE:
It is comically desperate.
— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) August 23, 2026
NEXT DEMAND, ANDALUSIA?
Ah, so it WAS an invasion. Got it. https://t.co/dCUhtkO2PY
— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) August 23, 2026
NOT THE BEE: Pennsylvania court case declared mistrial because none of the jurors would own up to smoking a doobie in the jury room. “The prosecution and the defense both agreed that if the juror had a prescription it was fine, and the judge said no one would be in trouble for the incident, but all the jurors also swore that they were not taking any medications that could affect their judgment in the case, so the judge needed to figure out who it was.”
That would be fine, really?
WE DO NOT:
America … we do not want this. https://t.co/9RsnQ9UOIh
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) August 24, 2026
Full text:
“If 2 Arab boys need to be taken care of, I’m not sending two girls in. As soon as certain surnames come up, we bring in the police.”
She speaks about the problems with clan members:
“It usually doesn’t take long for 20, 30, 40 family members to show up in front of the hospital. They have special Telegram groups where they alert each other, and they want to make their presence felt in a way that’s often aggressive: ‘We’re here; we stand by our people—and you can expect trouble if anything happens to them.’
“In these circles, it’s common for the mothers and women to scream loudly and in high drama. This high noise level is a stress factor for the staff and also for the patients.”
That’s no way to run a hospital. Or a Western nation.
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“FIRED FOR CAUSE” IS NO REASON NOT TO FORCE A COMPANY TO HIRE HER BACK, APPARENTLY:
Yes and none of these articles include that information. Unbelievably corrupt.
— Gregg Re (@gregg_re) August 24, 2026
CHANGE:
Things that are now rightwing:
Investigative journalism
Academic rigour
Scientific dissent
Nature
Facts
Biology
Politeness
Punctuality
Normality
Free speech
Individual rights
Rationality
Objectivity
Self-reliance
Emotional restraint
Delayed gratification— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) August 15, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed): Did conservatives win the culture war?
And don’t forget physical fitness:
And eating healthy and reading epic poetry:
MORE (From Ed): The Financial Times crusades in to ask, “Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?”
https://t.co/wV0btc8OA4 pic.twitter.com/qmhbgWJtrl
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) August 24, 2026
CHANGE: Trump’s bill prompts steep SNAP enrollment decline — including over 50% in one state. “Proponents of welfare reform hope the roll reductions are driven by people earning too much to keep qualifying — a sign that policy changes are behaving as intended for a program they assert is riddled with fraud.”
THERE’S A BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SEXES? Who knew? There’s actual science behind the phrase ‘throwing like a girl.’
HASAN PIKER AND HASAN PIKER ALLIES BADLY DENYING THE THINGS HASAN PIKER CLEARLY SAID IS NOW A COTTAGE INDUSTRY:
And you can tell by his demeanor he didn't even actually mean it. https://t.co/CI1EjaEqR7
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 24, 2026
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Why Did Israel Declare 2026 ‘The Year of Latin America’?
