NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

The Supreme Court ruling that lets the Trump Administration proceed with mail ballot security measures has Democrats freaking out, but what's really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about…

— Mark Mendlovitz (@MendlovitzMark) August 25, 2026

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What’s really driving them bonkers is less about providing voter lists for eligibility determination (though they are certainly worried about that) and much more about MATCHING BARCODES of the outer and inner envelopes in a mail ballot package.

Here is why that’s the problem for them. If surplus mail ballots collected from people who aren’t voting by mail are somehow voted on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE, it becomes readily detectable that a ballot was repurposed from its originally intended voter to someone else on the voter rolls. The “no-match” condition means that ballot was taken from the originally intended voter or it was given away. Either way that’s how fraud can be easily detected.

Keep in mind, the barcode matching requirement does not require any personal information that isn’t on the outside of an envelope, and it doesn’t prevent states from using mail to conduct elections, so the hysterical reactions are confirmation they know the gig is up.

Well, stay tuned.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: SCOTUS Helps Preserve a Modicum of Sanity in Mail-In Ballot Madness. “President Trump hasn’t been getting any help from Republicans in the Senate in his efforts to make our elections a little more transparent and less susceptible to fraud. Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t really leading anyone, preferring the invertebrate hand-wringing that was the hallmark of pre-Trump Republicans to anything that might help his party to win. “

EASY-CLICK INTERCEPTORS: Cheap ‘Guardian’ interceptors developed by Florida start-up could turn tables on Iranian drones. “The report cited a Powerus spokesperson, who said the company produces 3,000 interceptors a month and hopes to increase that to 15,000 a month by 2027. This is helped by the product’s modular design, as the readily available components easily snap together.”

#JOURNALISM: The New York Times Is Weaponizing Islamophobia: The FBI says there are 7 times as many anti-Jewish as anti-Muslim hate crimes. Yet the New York Times is stoking a panic.

THERE ARE SOME AMONG THE OFFICE STAFF, BUT THEY’RE SECRETLY TRUMP VOTERS: Are There ANY Working Class People in the DSA?

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EVERY INSTITUTION: “Signs of AI Authorship in Federal Appellate Opinions:” “Dozens of published circuit opinions show signs of AI writing. If courts are using AI, that’s promising—and worth getting right.”

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:

SCOTUS 🚨 Blue states have no standing to sue before the election.

Wait till after? Too late.

Same exact trap they cheered when it was used against conservatives in 2020.

How’s that medicine tasting?

— Brittany Rae (@legitbrittFLA) August 24, 2026

ICYMI, THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT: California’s Revenge on Paramount Comes With a $7 Million-a-Day Price Tag.

SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT MUST BE:

The Memphis mayor is black. The COO is black. 60 percent of the city council is black. The police chief is black. The vast majority of people in leadership positions at every level are black. So naturally if something goes wrong in Memphis, it’s the fault of white people. https://t.co/MLy38bekbd

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 24, 2026

JIM TREACHER: Dems Celebrate Political Violence, Again.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: BAMBOO COOL Men’s Underwear Breathable Boxer Briefs. #CommissionEarned

SMART: Florida moves to become first state to restrict cash assistance on non-essentials.

Under the state’s proposed policy change, Florida Department of Children and Families, or DCF, benefits distributed through Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT cards, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF grants will no longer be eligible for purchases involving tobacco and vaping products, alcohol, adult material, video games, theme park tickets, tattoos, tanning beds, or fortune-telling services.

“Florida will be the first state in the nation to restrict temporary cash assistance benefits from being used for inappropriate and non-essential purchases,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Tampa. “If somebody really is needy, we just want to make sure that money is going to the things that are going to help that individual and help the dependents.”

How will the children survive without tattoos?

HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT MEN AREN’T OUT THERE TELLING WOMEN THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO AN OPINION ON THINGS? Yes, men are allowed to opine about Lindsay Clancy.

I generally take such claims as evidence that the women’s opinions in question can’t stand up to rational discussion. Of course, one advantage of the current crazy years is that you can retort with “How dare you assume my gender?”

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS:

I feel like this is my fault…

I may have hid “mention Tuesdays” in one or more of my essay prompts… and I used that prompt a LOT (multiple classes) in both semesters or the course of at least two years…

and I caught a LOT of AI that way. 😬 https://t.co/l3gYdL8O5N

— Lady Demosthenes (@LadyDemosthenes) August 24, 2026

HOW IT STARTED: Socialist Robert Reich on Election Night 2024 Warned Elon Musk: “I guarantee you I’m going to make life so difficult for you, really so difficult for you, so just be very careful of yourself.”

How It’s Going:

robert reich has hired 0.0 workers in his life. and millions of people are retiring on 0.0 of the wealth (stock) he’s created. His opinion is valuable to 0.0 people

— Trevor Vaughan (@TrevorAVaughan) August 24, 2026

IT’S AS IF FEMINISTS ARE HYSTERICAL AND DIVORCED FROM REALITY:

Crazier still: it WAS written about Islam. Atwood was disgusted by what the Muslims were doing to women during the Iranian revolution and she imagined that happening here. https://t.co/AMDA4cFcc3

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) August 24, 2026

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Can someone explain why a member of the audience was penalized and not the bratty, attention-seeking player who was more interested in chasing clout than points?
Maybe the WNBA should just get rid of all their female players and let the men play. The league obviously doesn't… https://t.co/UgmDJDGfde

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 24, 2026

DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES: NBC’s Welker to Head-Shaking Tim Scott: Let’s Pretend That El Sayed’s Terror Ties Don’t Count.

And, yes, these days being a Democrat operative includes serving as an apologist for terrorist apologists.

I AGREE WITH PROF. VERMEULE.

The issue isn’t that the universities won’t admit to being progressive seminaries. (Does anyone not realize what they are?) It’s not a consumer disclosure issue. The real problem is substantive: progressivism is bad, it has injected poison into the body politic for decades, and… https://t.co/wbllff2vSC

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) August 24, 2026

I’m not saying we should regulate higher ed like an industry that produces toxic waste, but we certainly shouldn’t be funding this.

FROM NATHAN C. BRINDLE:  The Lion of God (Timelines Book 1).

John Wolff has been handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Again.

He’s already saved the love of his life from an early death – thirty years after she died.

Now, a beautiful young woman, who is clearly his daughter, has appeared from the timeline branch where that same love of his life survived and married his counterpart.

She says they need his help fighting off invaders from the far future. Who, by the way, are looking for him. Why? Because they want the starship drive he and a friend invented, the precursor to their time machine. Problem is, in her timeline, it hasn’t been invented yet.

What man can resist a cry for help from his own daughter?

UPRAISNG THE MIDDLE FINGER IS NOT ONE OF THEM*:  I’m a neurologist — the quickest test for dementia is just 3 hand movements.

*That’s a test for “being an American” when faced with would-be tyrants, of course.

DOUBLING THAT LIFETIME???  This Is How Much of a Difference Rooting Out Fraud Could Make for Medicare’s Lifespan.

SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS:  Independent Publishers Are Saving the Books Big Publishing Won’t Touch.

THEY’RE ALL RICH KIDS:  Socialists Or Deadbeats? One And The Same

AND WANT YOU DEAD:  The Democrats’ Rage: These People Are Drama Queens Who Hate Your Guts and Mock Your Dead.