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.
August 19, 2026
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.
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.
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.
August 18, 2026
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.
GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ka’Chava Whole Body Meal Shake Chocolate 2 lb. #CommissionEarned
FATHERS MORE LIKELY TO BE SENTENCED TO EXECUTION THAN MOTHERS:
I find this interesting given all the controversy on the Lindsay trial Debate: "There is great disparity in the sentences given to parents convicted of killing their children (Oberman, 1996). We are ambivalent about filicide in that society simultaneously expresses moral…
— Helen Smith (@HelenSmithPhD) August 18, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Jason Arday’s Final Self-Delusion.
Some lies are so preposterous that intelligent people who believe them bear some responsibility for being taken in. And they are outright guilty for repeating the lies and urging others to believe them. This is obviously so in Arday’s case. The lies depended on willful credulity, as well as amplification by other professors, including Cambridge’s Hilary Cremin, who went on the BBC and told Arday that “you are the best in the world, in terms of the research that you do.” Reviewers gushed over his books and pronounced them moving, “brave,” and “insightful.” Defenders did begin to distance themselves when the lies became even more lurid and inexplicable, as with the claims that a masked man invisible to security cameras had menaced Arday with a knife and that someone had sent him the head of a pig, which he disposed of rather than preserved as evidence. The trajectory of his deception seems to have been from tragedy (a man carried away with lies and too compulsive to stop telling them) to farce (once the lies became ridiculous enough that only a complicit person could believe them) and finally back to tragedy on Friday. Arday’s colleagues, his editors, and the people who knew he was a fraud but said nothing have absorbed some ridicule for their role in hiring and publishing him. But to date, I have seen no evidence that they have considered their complicity, let alone repaired the damage to their institutions by explaining their error or, better yet, just resigning.
They elevated Arday, a fragile and disturbed person, into a position where his fragility would be tested and he would be shattered. Even if the Cambridge Faculty of Education’s standards were so low that his inadequacies would remain unremarked there, he was a fellow of a Cambridge college with real scholars who would eventually be indignant upon realizing that their new colleague’s scholarship consisted of copy-paste jobs, semiliterate nonsense, and fan notes on his favorite 1990s Brit-pop. Did Arday’s allies think no one would notice? That those who noticed would be forever intimidated into polite silence? That drinking sherry in the common room of Jesus College would be a pleasant experience for Arday himself as he waited to be found out? Those who placed Arday in that situation were cruel and heartless. They may as well have taken a skin-and-bones Make-A-Wish kid, told him that he could fly, and shot him out of a cannon. The journalists were not the ones who stuffed Arday into the cannon and lit the fuse. They were gravity.
“The media didn’t kill Jason Arday,” Brendan O’Neill adds:
Then there was the supposed vigil for Arday in London’s Trafalgar Square last night. A vigil for the late Arday is a fine idea: his death is a tragedy and his friends and followers are cut up about it. Yet that gathering felt more like a mass screech of rage against the “vicious” media than a quiet tribute to a late professor. Attendees mauled the gutter press and its “relentless campaign” against a black man.
Journalists need to stand up to this crusade of defamation. Editors too. The media did what it is meant to do: found a fascinating story and it told it. I know some of the journalists who wrote about Arday. The idea that they thought to themselves “Look, a black man at Cambridge, let’s take him down” is preposterous beyond belief. It is a slur far more vile and truthless than anything the media said about Arday.
The stakes are high. The very liberty to utter is on the line. There are now cries for a public inquiry into the media coverage of Arday, and even for new legislation to “cap news coverage of any individual within a set time frame”. They’re calling it Arday’s Law.
Let us be clear: this would be an intolerable assault on the freedom of the press. Nobody – not the state, not the “moral majority” and certainly not noisy mobs of ideological crusaders – has the right to tell the press what it can cover and for how long. Our forbears did not fight and die for the sacred liberty to speak only for silver-spoon leftists to trash it now on the back of a tragic death. Such exploitative despotism must not stand.
I’m sure no one could ever abuse such a well intentioned law, right?
“Why is that story about that far right guy who got accused of child trafficking no longer getting coverage?”
“He complained under Arday’s Law and it’s in the courts. Should be back in the news in about a year.” https://t.co/Sz5NWQorMt— Reg (@RegHumber) August 18, 2026
UPDATE:
Setting aside the insanity of a policy where subjects can shut down reporting about them by claiming mental anguish: Arday had called the police on multiple people who had asked him about his work. He had killed a THE story via legal threat. He deserved no benefit of the doubt. https://t.co/qjDESAzYwk
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) August 18, 2026
FROM SCHOOL CHOICE TO COLLEGE CHOICE. Make Education Savings Accounts, uh, greater.
