MATT TAIBBI: No, Jason Arday Wasn’t the Media’s Fault: Blaming a suicide on correct reporting unfortunately makes perfect sense in this reality-challenged era.

THE NOMENKLATURA OF THE PROLETARIAT:

‘Union electrician’ DSA socialists be having $1.5 million Brooklyn row houses bought for them by their parents. https://t.co/HJr0pAeJG8 pic.twitter.com/88yvqnigEg

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) August 18, 2026

Guessing he might not do all that much electrical work.

COMMUNIST COSPLAY:

I’m so tired of these DSA types.

It’s always the same exact bio: self-important, bottomlessly entitled rich kids who hate you, want free stuff, and think they can get it doing communist cosplay. https://t.co/xvjhorDWMB

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) August 19, 2026

Plus, why do they invariably have such outdated reactionary 19th century white supremacist worldviews? Marx Was an Othering White Male!

CLASS ACT: Jon Ossoff Knew EXACTLY What He Was Implying About This Cancer Survivor.

THEY’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO SILENCE PEOPLE:

Leftists and DEI supporters are urging the British government to pass a law that would ban heavy media coverage of a person. They say this is needed after dozens of stories were published about Jason Arday’s numerous and extensive lies.

There were so many stories because there… https://t.co/7Y53DOGqiK

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 18, 2026

IF YOUR PENSION ISN’T PRIVATE IT IS A PONZI SCHEME:  Pensions: We’ve been duped for 30 years – this is how to stop it, Part 1.

EVIDENCE EXPERTS LAUD GOSPELS: Two men who know a thing or three about what constitutes trustworthy evidence — one a former investigative journalist, the other a former LA police detective specializing in solving cold murder cases — explain on HillFaith this morning why they concluded the Gospels are trustworthy sources about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

BUT HE WENT TO HARVARD! — FURTHER DEATH OF HIGHER EDUCATION — David Hogg Got Leveled With a Brutal Community Note Regarding AI Data Centers.

THERE ARE NO ‘MODERATE’ DEMOCRATS, ARE JUST DEMOCRATS AFRAID TO EXPOSE THEIR VIEWS:  This ‘Moderate’ Democrat Is Also on Board With Abolishing the Electoral College.

IMAGINE IF THIS HAPPENED TO A MUSLIM WOMAN:  A VA Woman Went to Get Her Eyebrows Done, but She Mentioned Being Jewish and All Hell Broke Loose.

AND THIS IS TRUE:  Sorry I cannot feel.

ABSOLUTELY:  So, we have a shipbuilding National Security Presidential Memorandum. if it is broke, then fix it…or don’t complain when someone else at least tries.

TRADPUB (WITH ONE EXCEPTION I CAN THINK OF) IS A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE MASS INDUSTRIAL LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION COMPLEX. THAT’S ALL:  Simon & Schuster digs the commercial potential.

SHOCKED? DON’T BE:  This is how many people wanted to hear to @SenMarkKelly.  speak today at the nation’s largest progressive youth conference Zero media are reporting on this disaster.

X-cancel.

The rise of socialists in America is mostly memorex and “fake it till you make it.” Ignore their faking. They won’t make it.

ALL OF THE “NEW DEAL” NEEDS A STAKE THROUGH THE HEART AND TO BE BURIED AT A CROSSROADS:  A Very Bad Supreme Court Decision.

We never needed a “New Deal”. We need the old, Constitutional deal. The one that worked and continues to work.

HAVING AI WRITE FOR YOU (OR PLOT) FOR YOU IS A MUG’S GAME:  Technology is great until it isn’t.

AI can help with various things, including telling you where to find the information you need or helping you firm up a passage you’re having trouble visualizing. But it can never be the final product. By definition it is … not you?  My favorite moment recently was encountering a “I’ll never use AI to write disclaimer” on the front of a book that was written in near perfect Claude-Speak, completely unedited. Was it written with Claude? I don’t know. And I’m not engaging in the great 21st century witchhunt so I’m not telling you what the book is. But the juxtaposition of pious disavowal and the AI speak was hilarious. Maybe it was performance art?

DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!  Sorting.

THE DEATH OF HIGHER EDUCATION:  Return on Investment.

NONE OF THIS IS RATIONAL:  A Thin Veneer Over the Emotional Kaleidoscope.

VERY MUCH THIS:  The Establishment Cause. You don’t get to pick and choose.

UNMAKING CIVILIZATION:  Nostalgie De La Boue.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China bounces back from Long March rocket explosion with back-to-back launches. Rocket science advances explosion by explosion.

THE INSTAWIFE HAS SAID THIS FOR YEARS: ‘Always Finish Your Antibiotics’ Is Not Always Best Practice. Surprised? You’re Not Alone. “In recent decades, however, more than 120 randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that shorter courses of antibiotics for common infections can be just as effective, safer, and no more likely to promote antibiotic resistance than longer courses.”

MICROBIOME UPDATE: Phage news: “Phages are often described mainly in terms of the bacteria they kill. The new findings highlight another side of that relationship. When a virus destroys one microbe, the contents of that cell do not disappear. They become resources that other organisms can potentially use. In that sense, phages may act as microscopic nutrient recyclers, transferring valuable molecules from organisms that manufacture them to organisms that depend on scavenging.”

The gut microbiome team’s decision to be photographed on a toilet is . . . bold.