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August 21, 2026
BALLROOM BLITZ: SCOTUS Cuts In on Ballroom Battle, Lets Construction Proceed — for Now. “In court filings, the administration has said that as of Aug. 14, construction was 65% complete on the $400 million, privately funded project, with a 250-person crew working 20 hours a day, seven days a week.”
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE, I’M GONNA LET IT SHINE: The Power of Sunlight: Another Payment Processor Changes its Tune After Anti-Gun Discrimination is Exposed.
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN (COLORADO EDITION): Over $620K spent on signatures for Initiative 195 tax hike effort.
What has been billed as a “grassroots” movement to implement a progressive income tax in Colorado has proven one thing: the effort behind the signatures turned in to put Initiative 195 on the November ballot was definitely green. Greenbacks, that is.
A paid circulator report obtained by Complete Colorado from the secretary of state’s office shows that organizers behind the proposed ballot measure, who at first appeared to be leaning heavily on a volunteer effort, actually paid petition circulators more than $620,000 to help gather the over 150,000 signatures turned in just as the deadline was closing.
About 150 circulators came from as far away as California, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and North Carolina.
They had to bring in more Californians?
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Harry and Meghan Think California Schools Suck Too. “Welcome to your weekly West Coast, Messed Coast™ update, where today we’ll cover yet another reason why Harry and Meghan are leaving California and booking it back to the British Empire. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be shorting out before our very eyes — especially in response to a reporter’s question about the collapse of California schools.”
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KEEP DIGGING: ‘Where’s the bottom’: Economics professor addresses Seattle area’s shrinking job market.
Layoffs at Starbucks’ Seattle headquarters is the latest sign of continuing job losses in western Washington.
Other major employers, including Amazon, Microsoft, META and Expedia have announced hundreds of local job cuts in recent months. The cuts come as King County saw its unemployment rate dip to nearly 5% in June.
Seattle University associate professor of economics Nick Huntington-Klein said the area is seeing a “sustained issue,” with big companies doing sweeping cuts at the same time.
There are several factors at play, he said. These companies cite AI as the potential to replace some employees. There was also over-hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, higher taxes in Washington state and Seattle specifically has been a reason for reductions in force or for some companies to relocate.
Previously: Socialist mayor’s blunt 1-word message to fleeing millionaires sparks outrage: ‘We’re doomed.’ “‘Bye,’ Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said to millionaires leaving her state.”
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
The media ignored Biden's dementia
They lied about Russian collusion
They've downplayed the massive Fauci scandal
This … this is their focus https://t.co/R39vFlrKCv
— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) August 21, 2026
IT RARELY ENDS WELL FOR MALES: Desert tarantulas prepare for sex and death at Zion National Park.
IRAN IS VIP BUT DON’T FORGET LEBANON: Secretary of State Marco Rubio certainly hasn’t forgotten Lebanon or the Hezbollah, which just happens to be Iran’s most powerfully armed terrorist puppet. Richard Pollock reveals details behind the barely-noticed special talks launched by Rubio between Israel and the Lebanese government.
THEY’VE PLAYED THIS GAME FOR AT LEAST 25 YEARS: The Left Suddenly Loves the Troops, As Long As It Hurts Trump.
The country wanted to lynch Susan Smith because she claimed a Black man had carjacked her kids and lied about it. That was the betrayal, not the fact that she had killed her two innocent sons to get rid of them so they would not get in the way of her relationship of a boyfriend… https://t.co/PrDDuxuEfE
— Helen Smith (@HelenSmithPhD) August 21, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Fifth Circuit Judge Rules Biden-Era ‘Frame and Receiver’ Rule is Unconstitutional.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS STUCK LIKE THAT:
In the most predictable update of all time, it turns out the sweet, misunderstood boy that the Democrats have been defending, is in fact a complete piece of shit who hits women, got in fights regularly, wanted to lick a victims blood off his knife and threatened to kill people.… https://t.co/115KWVcZLV
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 21, 2026
NO, TEVI TROY, 1976 WAS NOT REAGAN’S GREATEST SPEECH: Those unscheduled impromptu remarks to the Kansas City GOP convention were a fine moment, but, for those millions of us then-young Americans who worked for him know, Reagan’s greatest speech started in 1964 and he finished it 25 years later. It’s my latest Substack column and it is close to my heart, so I hope you will take time to read and ponder it.
MAYBE, BUT DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats Believe They Can Take Iowa and Texas Senate Seats. Are They Delusional?
CHANGE:
This is terrific. As I wrote last year in @CivitasOutlook, “One of the underappreciated aspects of what’s gone wrong [in higher ed], especially with law schools, is accreditation. Analyzing the rules governing legal education may not be as attention-grabbing as showing how… https://t.co/Ot9RqoW0Ld
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) August 21, 2026
SECURITY DOING ITS JOB: Invited media and military members held at gunpoint at Space Force base in California.
THEY’RE SERIOUS: Islamic advocacy group demands James O’Keefe be prosecuted after team dressed as Muslims to expose Minnesota elections. “CAIR-Minnesota called on authorities to investigate after O’Keefe and members of his team entered Minneapolis polling locations during the Aug. 11 primary wearing traditional Muslim clothing and using obviously fake accents to test how election workers would handle attempts to register voters through Minnesota’s vouching process. The demand comes after Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon similarly said law enforcement was reviewing the conduct and warned that the participants may have placed themselves in ‘legal jeopardy.’ O’Keefe and his team are undercover journalists with a long history of exposing fraud and corruption.”
It’s Minnesota, so who knows what will happen.
WEBSITE BEHIND WIDELY SHARED FAKE ELECTION POLLS RUN BY 21-YEAR-OLD.
“I wanted to see if fake polls could really penetrate the ecosystem that easily,” Rahil Prakash told the Guardian on Thursday when reached by phone. “And as it turned out, it could.”
Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, touted Median polling data after it appeared to put her ahead of her election challenger by more than 10 percentage points. The poll was also cited by the California Post. A widely followed polling aggregator on X also shared the group’s Nevada poll, although several credible polling organizations did not aggregate Median polling because they could not verify its methodology.
“Did I expect it to perhaps expedite in the way it did? Most definitely not,” said Prakash. “I did not expect the California political press to pick it up on their own.”
He added: “I’ll apologize straight out to the campaigns of Karen Bass, Nithya Raman and Francesca Hong for this.”
On the upside, I guess we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving for a few more years:
You can get away with saying lots of crazy things in America today, but "let's cancel Thanksgiving" isn't one of them https://t.co/BT6tWacZJ3
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 12, 2026
HARDEST WORKING MAN IN WASHINGTON: Cocaine Networks and Communists — Marco’s Been Busy Today.
NATHAN COFNAS: How I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair.
I’m an easy scapegoat because I hold views about race that are controversial and easily misunderstood. I argue that differences between ancestral populations aren’t entirely due to environmental forces, and that some group disparities stem from natural differences for which no one is to blame. I made a widely quoted statement: “Under a colorblind system that judged applicants only by academic qualifications, blacks would make up 0.7% of Harvard students.” That sentence has been cited repeatedly as evidence that I’m a racist.
Few people are aware that my statement about Harvard admissions was summarizing a finding by Harvard itself. In the course of the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard lawsuit, Harvard disclosed an internal study conducted in 2013, which found that, if admissions were based only on grades and test scores, the undergraduate population would be 0.7% African-American—a significant reduction from current levels. Racial representation at many American institutions is maintained by Harvard-style affirmative action.
I didn’t quote Harvard’s statistic to celebrate it, or because I believe that black people don’t belong at universities. There are many brilliant black scholars. But it’s a difficult fact to face that in a truly colorblind system that didn’t take race into account, there would be a shocking lack of diversity in certain institutions. As I said in the controversial essay that mentions the Harvard statistic, “when it comes to policymaking in a multiracial society, we might need to make sure that everyone feels they have a voice in determining our collective fate.” To this end, I argued for taking measures to ensure meaningful representation of major demographic groups. But we shouldn’t do this under the banner of DEI, which automatically blames differences in outcome on white racism.
Many people have asked me if I regret writing the Arday exposé. This is a tricky question to answer. I set off a series of events that led to a death. If I say I have no regrets, it sounds like I don’t appreciate the horrific nature of the outcome. If I say I do regret it, it sounds like I’m accepting moral responsibility for what happened.
The lesson can’t be that it’s unacceptable to point out wrongdoing that implicates powerful public figures. That’s what I did when I exposed fraud and institutional corruption at Cambridge.
Now, for self-interested reasons, there’s another case of corruption that I object to: the scapegoating of a whistleblower by powerful institutions that refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions.
Cofnas writes that he’s been “flooded with death threats, [and] smeared in countless newspaper articles.” It’s obvious from his piece in the Wall Street Journal that all that ink has placed him under a considerable amount of pressure. In an effort to foster an environment where public discourse is informed, fair and respectful, shouldn’t journalists back off in that sort of situation to reduce the potential amount of “media harm?”
"Media harm." The people who ruined your life for making an OK sign are now worried about "media harm." https://t.co/3l2I0ChaGa
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) August 19, 2026
IT DOES SEEM THAT WAY: The Disconnect Between Some Military Families and Their Service Member’s Actual Job Is Stunning.
I have, as you might have noticed, pretty much stayed out of the brouhaha over the USS Abraham Lincoln and the other ships keeping watch and running operations in the Middle East.
Mostly because, in my unfiltered honesty, coupled with my personal experience, I haven’t much patience with the whining coming from the junior sailors on board or, frankly, the families who, to excuse a lot of it, oft times don’t really know any better. All they are hearing is that life sucks in every direction, and they hear it often enough, thanks to the age we live in, that they grow convinced that this is something out of the ordinary and their child or young spouse/father/wife/child/whatever is suffering some extraordinary deprivations and conditions that have never before been experienced in the history of modern seafaring.
None of which is true, but these experts would beg to differ, bolstered by a frenzied flood of press reports all feeding on anything that makes the Trump administration and Pete Hegseth’s War Department look really bad, with as much fervor as great whites on a dead humpback.
It’s an easy, lazy target filled with all the ingredients for a drama soup.
I have to admit, I have seen this dependent/family v duty conflict coming for a long time, and the innerwebs age has only exacerbated the situation.
Read the whole thing.
