SEEMS LEGIT: Iranian sex offender able to vote without ID in Michigan.

O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) journalists reportedly investigated two Michigan registered voters whose noncitizen status was identified through Department of Homeland Security (DHS) records. One of the individuals, Afshin Masheli, is an Iranian national who was previously featured on DHS’ “Worst of the Worst” list, which shows non-citizens who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for serious criminal offenses.

Masheli is listed as a registered sex offender.

“OMG proved that at Masheli’s assigned polling location, election workers confirmed a voter registration under his name appeared in the poll book and stated that a registered voter listed there could cast a ballot,” the media company said in a statement. “Our undercover journalist spoke to Afshin Masheli himself and Masheli said he planned to vote later that day.”

When a state lets the “worst of the worst” vote, it’s fair to ask how many nicer — but equally illegitimate — voters are on the rolls.

THE UNCHALLENGED GLOBAL LEADER:

No chance. America remains the global leader in this field. Making Jason Arday a Cambridge professor so everyone involved can congratulate themselves on their virtue is beginner level stuff. America took a serial plagiarist with embarrassingly poor scholarship and made her… https://t.co/f89Wray6f2

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) August 8, 2026

TRUE:

Kareem might have a point if anyone could name a single other WNBA player. https://t.co/pBxl0KEGEs

— Julie Frost–That Werewolf Writer🐺🦉 (@JulieCFrost) August 9, 2026

IT’S A COMPANY TOWN, AND ITS MAYOR HASN’T GOT A CLUE ABOUT THE INDUSTRY:

I’ll tell you something about Karen Bass. Three months after she was elected, she spoke at one of the guilds. She clearly knew nothing about the film industry, I mean nothing. It was shocking.
At one point she asked that film productions give jobs to homeless people—that this… https://t.co/XuxCgA0CRD

— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) August 9, 2026

“At one point she asked that film productions give jobs to homeless people—that this ‘would really help her out,’ Bateman tweets. “What kind of idiot walks into a room of mostly out-of-work people, in an industry that is collapsing upon itself, that does productions with limited time and money where a mistake from an inexperienced worker can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and suggest that unskilled, perhaps drug-addled, clueless homeless people should be employed instead of qualified guild members?”

Isn’t it the mayor’s job to help out one of the city’s chief industries, rather than the other way around?

AN INTERESTING — AND IF YOU’RE A WRITER IMPORTANT — THOUGHT:  Poison Pills, the New Spider-Man Film, and Some Thoughts.

NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME PLAYER: Clean Up in Aisle 4! Abdul El-Sayed Makes a Mess on ‘Meet the Press.’

STANDING UP TO RACISM: Race Discrimination in Admissions Suit Against U Washington Can Go Forward.

THERE’S A BRIDGE TO DIE ON!  Far-left Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed blasts Trump’s marriage to Melania after president’s social media comparison.

SINCE IT’S ISRAEL’S SURVIVAL ON THE LINE, HE’S RIGHT:  Netanyahu Rejects 15-Point Gaza Plan, Says No Withdrawal Until Hamas Disarms.

WELL…  Bessent Enlists Banks in Trump Immigration Crackdown.

ARE THEY BIOLOGISTS?  WNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the ‘W’ Stands for.

YOU MIGHT THINK THAT, BUT YOU’D BE WRONG. CONGRESSCRITTERS GROW UP TO BECOME SENATORS, GOVERNORS AND EVEN PRESIDENTS UNLESS STRANGLED IN THE CRIB:  You Think We’d Let This Dem Congressional Candidate Forget What She Said Five Years Ago.

BUT IF THEY DON’T, THE RESULT IS THE SAME:  US defense giants Lockheed and Raytheon are reportedly resistant to licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear that Ukrainian manufacturers will be able to “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money.” -The Atlantic

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FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, THE REASON WAS ALWAYS OBVIOUS:  Isn’t It Time to Gut the 26th Amendment? (The Marxist Undertones of “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote” Exposed).

OH, HAY, THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  BOMBSHELL:  Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID.

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THE SLOW COLLAPSE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN BLUE TOWNS AND CITIES:  On becoming Karen, destroyer of worlds. I left a polite note on the windshield of a vehicle stored illegally in front of my home. Then the police came—to my door.

IT’S BEEN LIKE THAT FOR AT LEAST FIFTEEN YEARS, WHEN KIDS WERE TEENS:  Teenagers are shooting out over 50 applications and getting ghosted even for volunteer jobs: ‘I’ll take anything at this point’.

IDEAS YOU CAN USE:  Larry Correia’s A to Z Guide to Anti-Gun Vulture Talking Points.

WE’RE LIVING IN AN ABSURDIST PLAY:  Illegal alien students demand U. California system comply with court ruling, hire them for campus jobs.

WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN: Thoughts on the 25th Anniversary of InstaPundit.

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OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: How AI is changing spacecraft and satellite operations.

SCIENCE: ‘Exceeded Our Expectations’: One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong.

PROBABLY GOES WITH THE INTERBREEDING: Cave Discovery Suggests Neanderthals and Modern Humans May Have Shared Culture.

BREAKTHROUGH: Omega-3 plus low-dose aspirin produces antibiotic-like results against severe periodontitis.