MATH IS HARD: Talarico’s ‘Paxton Is Crooked’ Attack Debunked. “James Talarico has accused him of ‘getting rich’ off his office. There’s only one problem with this theory: math.”
September 1, 2026
THE WAY OF THE WAR OF ART: My review of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, now up at Ed Driscoll.com.
PROGRESSIVE WHITE WOMEN ARE DANGERS TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS:
INSANE! Kaitlin Bennett interviewed Lindsay Clancy supporters, with some even admitting they would hurt their own children. Others said they get all their news from TikTok. pic.twitter.com/JDfdIwyOUj
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 1, 2026
I don’t know what the TikTok algo does now, but it spent years doing Beijing’s bidding.
BUT I BET THEY HAVE A COMMISSION WORKING ON IT: The EU Can’t Raid Europeans’ Savings Accounts, and It’s Driving the Globalists Nuts.
HYSTERICAL: Oliver Darcy Melts Down Over CBS Story on El-Sayed’s Deleted 9/11 Tweets.
In their collective Trump Derangement, the Elitist Media will grab and hold on to anything they can in order to claw their way back to Regime Media in service of Democrats in power. Most egregious of these are the Hall Monitor subset, who will seemingly defend anyone and anything standing opposite a Republican.
This means that America is subjected to Oliver Darcy hysterically howling in protest because the Bari Weiss-led CBS News had the temerity to point out that Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed deleted a series of social media posts evoking the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001. What was it, you ask, that sent Darcy to the fainting couch? Per CBS News:
As El-Sayed heads into the fall general election campaign against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, El-Sayed, a former public health official, has already been forced to distance himself from the views of Hasan Piker, a popular Twitch streamer who has appeared at El-Sayed’s campaign events and who generated controversy for declaring that “America deserved 9/11” before later retracting the remark.
Meanwhile, El-Sayed’s past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.
The report goes on to list several of the posts deleted by El-Sayed, which seems to have been a bridge too far for Darcy. Per Status:
The Bari Weiss-led outlet is being pummeled by a storm of outrage over a story about Abdul El-Sayed—and Status has learned that within the network, some staffers have raised the matter with standards.
Really? Resurfacing old posts is now a scandal? Because this is standard media practice. For example, here’s a CNN item rehashing some old Natalie Harp posts. Did Darcy rend his garments, don sackcloth and wallow in ash at that time? Probably not.
“Hannah Arendt had it right,” Patrick Moynihan once said. “She said one of the great advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
Good (bad for Russia) news about the Rassvet satellite constellation status
Out of the 32 launched so far:
1 has deorbited
8 are showing signs of failing (possibly already dead) – losing altitude or keeping very low altitude but still in orbit
1-2 are showing signs of issues— Jakub Janovsky (@Rebel44CZ) September 1, 2026
Background story here.
YES: Every State Needs To Follow Florida In Teaching Kids About Communism’s Terrors.
It’s no secret that legislating pedagogy can backfire. Often, lawmakers will pass laws about what to include in K-12 classrooms, but they forget to provide accompanying materials (i.e., standardized curriculum, textbooks, assessments, etc.) and professional training, which causes a lack of buy-in from teachers and administrators. At best, what follows is a half-hearted compliance that involves creating a blowoff class or giving a short presentation on the topic.
This is precisely what happened to California when it required an ethnic studies class in its public schools. Beyond the obvious partisan motivations behind such a course, there were countless logistical loose ends. It was anyone’s guess which materials to use, how the classes should be taught, or even which ethnicities to include. Worst of all, the state “never allotted money for the course, which meant the mandate hasn’t gone into effect.”
Fortunately, Florida’s rollout has been far more robust and comprehensive, which should help it overcome these problems.
Teaching kids about the horrors of communism was much easier when we still have the Soviet Union around as a living example.
NOT SURPRISING BUT STILL DISAPPOINTING:
The Clancy jury has told the court that it is deadlocked. As expected, Judge Sullivan is now sending them back. That is a common response to push a jury further. Not surprising given the intense divisions in the country, the jury appears to be manifesting those same divisions…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) September 1, 2026
BELMONT CLUB: September 10, 2001. “Nearly 25 years ago, on Sept. 10, 2001, the left-wing parties of Europe and America surveyed their breathtaking domain. Viewed from their vantage point, the Soviet Union had collapsed, and the world was theirs to inherit. To most Westerners, even educated ones, Islam was an ancient myth rumored to be surviving in distant places. Christianity was a fading force beaten down by Free Love and atheism. With the fall of Moscow, the world was theirs.”
NOW OUT: The Hunt For Confederate Gold (American Treasure Hunters, 1). #CommissionEarned
ANOTHER 20,000 BROKEN EGGS, STILL NO OMELETS:
The data is clear: Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protest which started ten years ago helped lead to 20,000 more murders — 10,000 of them black victims. Woke 1, as AOC calls it, was an unmitigated disaster. Read & share this: https://t.co/1fikCpf7zU
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 1, 2026
SCHLICHTER: The Washington Post Embarrasses Itself Trying to Embarrass Me.
Before this article came out, WaPo reporter Dan Lamothe tried to get me to comment. He texted me on my cell:
“Colonel, this is Dan Lamothe. Working on a story about undisclosed SGE and HQE employees for the Pentagon. You pop up in the system. Looking to touch base about it today, please.”
And he DM’d me on X:
“Kurt – Dan Lamothe with The Washington Post here. We’ve confirmed you appear in the Pentagon system as an HQE employee and wanted to seek clarification about what your role is. You appear under P&R, so I presume it’s possible the rumors are true that you’re working on war college-related efforts. You have continued to write on defense and immigration issues. Have you disclosed your government affiliation to readers anywhere? Thanks very much. Dan”
Gee, I guess we’re on a first-name basis. Now, I know what you are thinking: “What obscenities did you reply with, Kurt?” Well, none. I did not reply. Why?
1. I don’t comment on my work.
2. I don’t talk to the regime media.
3. Screw the Washington Post.
You may also note how he said I “appear in the Pentagon system” and “pop up in the system.” So what was a Pentagon reporter doing in the Pentagon personnel system? Is that where he got my phone number?
Needless to say, read the whole thing — and don’t screw with a trial attorney who also did standup.
MASSIVE RESISTANCE: U. Missouri suspends staffer who told undercover reporter DEI continues.
HEH:
For halloween this year, I'm going to dress up as a liberal white woman. pic.twitter.com/Xo6moJyvTQ
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) September 1, 2026
NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAVE ALWAYS CHANGED WHO GETS TO QUESTION AUTHORITY. The printing press brought millions of new minds into the conversation. Social media brought billions. Free speech is what lets that scrutiny produce discovery, correction, and progress.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: 5 of Town’s Muslim Council Members Under Investigation for Election Fraud.
WEAPONIZED JUSTICE: Whistleblower: NY AG Ordered Vendettas on Political Opponents – Including Trump. “Two days ago, one of James’ assistant AGs went public to accuse her of ordering political vendettas, almost all of them without cause.”
SINCE AT LEAST LENIN, THE LEFT HAS SEEN STRONG FAMILIES AS IMPEDIMENTS TO PARTY CONTROL:
Yes, the problem with America is our commitment to taking care of our families.
Aside from confirming that all the DSA-types are all projecting their daddy issues, I’m begging them to say this out loud as often as possible. https://t.co/USsf96Tn5M
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 1, 2026
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Higher Ed’s Secret Foreign Funding.
The Trump administration has made university accountability a signature issue, from combating discrimination to exposing foreign influence on campus. Now the higher-education lobby is trying to block the release of major foreign-donor names. The administration shouldn’t give in.
Universities receiving federal funds have been required by law since 1986 to report foreign gifts and contracts totaling $250,000 or more annually. They haven’t always done so. The first Trump administration uncovered nearly $6.5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts universities failed to disclose. The Biden administration failed to open any foreign-funding investigations, according to a September 2024 report from the House Select Committee on China. The second Trump administration restored enforcement and launched a public dashboard for reported foreign funding.
The disclosures show what’s at stake. In 2025 universities reported more than 8,300 foreign gifts and contracts, worth $5.2 billion, including $1.1 billion from Qatar and $528 million from China. The Education Department has identified roughly $380 million in historical university transactions with entities flagged by the U.S. government. That includes $158 million involving companies on the Defense Department’s Section 1286 list, which identifies foreign institutions and talent programs “confirmed to be engaging in activities that threaten U.S. national security interests.” Another $193 million involves entities on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, which restricts access to sensitive U.S. technology. Most of the flagged entities are Chinese, including organizations tied to Beijing’s military and nuclear program.
All foreign donors and contracting parties should be identified. In July the Education Department promised to publish “the names of all foreign sources from prior reporting cycles.” Yet it has repeatedly delayed doing so as higher-education groups press to keep those identities from public view.
Keep pushing. There’s no good reason for foreign influence-buying to be kept secret.
ARIZONA DIDN’T MAKE THE CUT? DHS plans to launch voter fraud investigation surge Tuesday. “Offices in nine states are expected to take investigative action from early September to mid-October, according to the guidance. Those states include Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut.”
MORE OF THAT WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY:
For at least the past 20 years, minority- and female-written essays have been graded LESS harshly than white male equivalents. https://t.co/lvjvOk1Z7F
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 30, 2026
ANOTHER REASON WHY THE MIDTERMS MATTER: State Bailouts; Will They Come? How Will Senators and Representatives Vote?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: RFK Jr. Continues to Terrorize Leftists With Healthy Food. “We knew that the Dems were going to be permanently triggered by the fact that a scion of their royal family jumped ship to become part of the MAGA machine. Kennedy continues to compound their misery because he and the president have obviously developed a strong, friendly bond through working together. It doesn’t matter what he does in his role at HHS; the lefties have predetermined that they’re going to hate it all.”
ERDOĞAN WEEPS: Israel, Greece finalize €3 billion defense system agreement. “Greece has dubbed the new program ‘Achilles Shield,’ a deal the ministry ranks among the largest in the country’s defence history. Never before has the Israeli Ministry of Defense delivered a single, fully integrated array built to counter threats as varied as ballistic missiles, aircraft, and hostile drones. The two countries also finalized a smaller, supplementary contract, valued at 26 million euros, for Israel to provide Greece with drone dome systems.”
