August 16, 2026
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STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION: Trump DOJ intensifies push to stop tuition discounts for illegal aliens, keep Harvard accountable for campus anti-Semitism.
NASHVILLE ISN’T DOING WELL:
🚨WHAT ON EARTH?!!
The TEACHER OF THE YEAR in Nashville TM just walked away from her career B says the district ORDERED HER TO FABRICATE GRADES.
She refused. So they went into the system and CHANGED IT THEMSELVES.
According to the teacher, a student didn’t finish a project.… pic.twitter.com/OSFF0FzYpj
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 16, 2026
ACADEMIA’S FREE SPEECH PROBLEM DIDN’T DISAPPEAR. PEOPLE JUST GOT BETTER AT PRETENDING IT DID. Tyler Harper explains why he left the tenure track, Tuskegee polices student dress codes, and a suspended student wins in court.
NO, HE WASN’T: No, Jason Arday Was Not Hounded to Death.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: The Brink of War Makes Reagan Human, Not a Caricature.
[Jeff] Daniels’ Reagan leans heavily on his good sense of humor, a grasp of basic psychology and endless resolve. He isn’t a caricature or a man teetering on the edge of senility. In fact, taking 2024’s “Reagan” out of the equation, it’s the most positive portrayal of the world leader in any Hollywood production.
That’s because it hails from Angel Studios, not La La Land.
“The Brink of War” isn’t dumbed down, but it’s accessible enough for teen viewers as well as adults. It’s hard to grasp the scope of the meeting if audiences weren’t alive back in 1986.
What’s most shocking – slash -welcome? President Reagan’s frequent attacks on the inhumanity at the heart of Communism. “War” doesn’t overplay that message, but it’s a welcome departure from Hollywood’s head-in-the-sand approach to the fascist cause.
Daniels is outstanding here, giving a consistently strong performance that isn’t bogged down by unnecessary tics or personal attacks on the president. He’s not deified, per se, and his stubbornness and folksy charm both help and hinder the mission in play.
In order to remain employable in Hollywood, Daniels is quick to point out that he doesn’t share Reagan’s worldview: Jeff Daniels on Reagan-Reykjavik Movie: ‘We Are All One World.’
Liberal actor Jeff Daniels plays President Ronald Reagan in the movie The Brink of War about the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, but during a promotional interview with CBS Saturday Morning, he appeared to have completely missed the point of the story. According to him, the key takeaway is that we should all aspire to the amoral hippie-ism of John Lennon, “We’re all one person. We are all one world. You know, John Lennon wasn’t wrong in his song ‘Imagine.’”
Except that he was; in his last year, Lennon admitted to be being embarrassed by his political phase culminating in “Imagine” — and reportedly supported Reagan over the hapless Carter during the 1980 election cycle: Trapped in 1972.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: New record! SpaceX launches 2 Falcon 9 rockets just 38 minutes apart.
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
WE NEED A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF CAMBRIDGE UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT JUST WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON THERE: Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?
At Charles Darwin’s old university, where a college is named after him, Darwin’s discovery is now described by one Cambridge researcher as an example of “potential challenges posed by Eurocentric* monoculture.”
It is the latest sign of fundamental problems at Cambridge’s education faculty, the same department which hired Jason Arday.
The project which platforms the creationist claims, the Islamic Educator Learning Community (IELC), is led by Cambridge’s assistant research professor of education, Farah Ahmed, a former activist in the since banned terror group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Ahmed’s extraordinary CV, and her long record of grossly bigoted, extremist and separatist views, were revealed by a 2002 pamphlet exposed by The Spectator on Tuesday.
IELC is “hosted by” and “partners with” a university body called the Cambridge Teacher Research Exchange, Camtree. Camtree is a project of Hughes Hall, the Cambridge University college where Ahmed is a governing fellow. Ahmed is also an “affiliate” of Camtree.
IELC publishes on its website, with a Camtree address, a paper on “Islamic scientific critical consciousness” which asks: “Does the common modern biological assumption that humans have common ancestry with other life forms conflict with [Islamic] religious beliefs about God creating Adam and Eve?”
* I’m pretty sure most British parents footing the bills for their sons and daughters’ educations are rather hoping that their kids are being taught from a largely “Eurocentric” point of view.
Meanwhile:
Compare the two cases and a pattern emerges. Cofnas cleared every formal bar that Cambridge erected—a competitive fellowship, a strong publication record, an eventual ruling that he’d broken no law and no policy—but he was punished anyway, and his position quietly expired while…
— Quillette (@Quillette) August 16, 2026
Tweet concludes, “and [Cofnas’] position quietly expired while the university dithered. Arday did not clear the bars his professoriate peers had to clear, he was defended anyway, and he was propped up by administrators who failed to do due diligence. One scholar was punished for an opinion; the other was protected despite misconduct that objective methods could verify. Two different treatments, one shared instinct: expedience trumps evidence.”
WE NEED TO CHANGE THAT TO AGONY ASAP: The Ecstasy of the Young Communists.
WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Bill Maher thinks immigrants must assimilate, accept American values and principles to be in US: ‘Not negotiable.’
Exit quote:
Well that should just about cement Bill Maher’s excommunication from the Democratic Party https://t.co/JxLCnw0MeR
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) August 16, 2026
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RIGHT?
if academia is silly and standards don't matter there's no rationale for why the public should be funding such trivialities
do you ppl bother to think beyond the latest controversy before your face? https://t.co/ouc9Vf6MSq
— Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ (@razibkhan) August 15, 2026
CHANGE:
Did you notice?
Summer is typically riot season.
However, since USAID was defunded, SPLC indicted, and ActBIue being investigated, things have been pretty calm this summer.
Just saying…
— Old School Eddie (@Old_SchoolEddie) August 15, 2026
Flashback: Jon Gabriel in 2024: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same.
COMMIES ARE EVIL. AND STUPID.
This is astonishingly blunt. https://t.co/q7uE4la7xO
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) August 15, 2026
August 15, 2026
DON’T EAT THE BROWN ACID:
On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival officially opened in Bethel, New York.
BITE-SIZED FACT | The three-day festival became one of the defining cultural events of the 1960s, attracting an estimated 400,000 people despite organizers initially expecting a much smaller… pic.twitter.com/fTfHumDyJJ
— Bite-Sized Nostalgia (@landofthe80s) August 15, 2026
Reminder: Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic.

As did Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing, whose astronauts returned to earth on July 24th, 1969, and released from a 21 day quarantine on August 10th:

UPDATE: The Making of the Counter Culture.
SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO SHARE THE MEME POST, BUT THIS IS MY FIRST MOMENT AT THE KEYBOARD: And Now the Memes….
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027.
I WANT REACTIONLESS THRUSTERS: Empty Space May Not Be Empty After All: Magnetar Reveals a Bizarre Quantum Effect.
FIRST, CHATGPT, NOW GROK4: Yesterday on HillFaith, it was ChatGPT compiling a perfect score; today on PJMedia, it’s Grok4 with another.
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