Sunday, August 31, 2025

Sunday Links For The End Of August

On a warm and sunny Sunday on the last day of August, here are some things going on:

From National Review, yes, self-deportation is happening.

From FrontpageMag, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) claims that his state is "safer", even with three shootings in four days.

From Townhall, President Trump's energy agenda has resulted in the lowest Labor Day weekend gas prices in five years.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about the eight surrenders in World War II.

From the Washington Examiner, former New York City Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani (R) is injured in a car crash in New Hampshire.

From American Thinker, the crowd who tell everyone to "follow the science" rarely does.

From NewsBusters, CBS White House correspondent Ed O'Keefe enables Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker's (D) election denialism theories.  (Election denial appears to be OK when Democrats engage in it.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, "the Christian case against asylum seekers".

From Jewish News Syndicate, a man is arrested for allegedly brandishing a knife near a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

From Arutz Sheva, alleged Israeli "war crimes" are really Hamas war crimes.

From Gatestone Institute, French President Emmanuel Macron rewards Hamas terrorism.

From The Stream, a connection between the Israelites wandering in the desert and a man whom Jesus healed at the pool of Bethesda.

From The Stream, Trump's border security measures hit Mexican drug cartels in their pocketbook.

From The American Conservative, "hurricane season" while moving to and from Louisiana.

From The Western Journal, the aforementioned Governor Pritzker approves legislation mandating the state's colleges and universities to provide abortion pills.

From The Daily Wire, right-wing parties are surging in parts of Europe.

From the Daily Caller, according to Trump, allowing Chinese students attend U.S. universities is the "right thing to do".

From Breitbart, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) considers having an emergency legislation session for gun control.

From Newsmax, according to former Trump advisor Walid Phares, Hamas is still using Israeli hostages as leverage.

And from the New York Post, shoppers at a mall in Syracuse, New York mistake an umbrella for an AR-15 rifle.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

A Sasquatch's Saturday Dozen

On a warm and sunny Saturday, after I've walked in a forest like sasquatches are supposed to, here are 12 things going on:

From Gatestone Institute, why Iran's ideology and missiles are a threat to the West, with a lesson from history.

From The Stream, 10 reasons against cessationism.

From The Daily Signal, six successes of Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) as Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears (R) runs to succeed him.

From The American Conservative, a review of a biography of Louisiana Senator and Governor Huey Long (D), who like President Trump, was a populist.

From TCW Defending Freedom, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage does some backtracking.

From Townhall, Florida cracks down on a fraud scheme which helps immigrants and illegal aliens who don't speak English to cheat on tests for commercial driver's licenses.

From The Washington Free Beacon, why China poses a threat to American democracy.

From the Washington Examiner, if you work for the Department of Justice, please refrain from flipping off the National Guard.

From The Federalist, college football announcer Lee Corso will make his final appearance on ESPN's College GameDay today.

From American Thinker, the sad truth about transitioning and detransitioning.

From NewsBusters, podcaster Keith Olberman blames Trump for the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, and claims that then-President Bush the Younger staged terror threats.

And from Breitbart, left-wingers spread a baseless online rumor that Trump is no longer with us.

Friday, August 29, 2025

Friday Fuss

On a warm and mostly sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, "in defense of prayer".

From FrontpageMag, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's (D) advisors are no different from himself.

From Townhall, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) plans launch a primary challenge to Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration revokes visas for Palestinian officials ahead of a U.N. General Assembly meeting due to their "incitement to terrorism".

From the Washington Examiner, my governor would "absolutely welcome" federal help against crime in Baltimore.

From The Federalist, by dismissing the transgender factor in the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, the media are enabling another one.

From American Thinker, an axe-wielding 14-year-old Scottish girl has done more to fight pedophiles than most European governments.

From NewsBusters, leftists are angry that White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Wire asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt about "trans ideology".

From Canada Free Press, Democrats scream for gun control as they condone mental illness.

From TeleSUR, the youth wing of Venezuela's United Socialist Party stages a 10-kilometer night march as part of their resistance training.

From TCW Defending Freedom, educating U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

From Snouts in the Trough, is the author of SitT being silenced in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's "free speech" Britain?  (The article short and contains a written link to his article in the Daily Sceptic.  You'll have to copy and paste the link into your browser in order to read the article.)

From EuroNews, the U.K. government wins an appeal which will allow migrants to continue staying at a hotel in the English town of Epping.

From ReMix, Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoes an amendment that would have abolished a requirement for parents and guardians assisting at educational institutions to present certificates of no criminal record.  (How many Polish people does it take to realize that it's good to keep criminals away from children?  Jeżeli czytasz po polsku, I mean, if you read Polish, read the story at Do Rzeczy.)

From Balkan Insight, the mystery of a 15-year-old Kosovo girl taken by Serbian police in May 1999 remains unsolved.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco introduces electronic bracelets as an alternative to prison.

From The New Arab, who is new acting Algerian Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb?

From Arutz Sheva, according to a U.N. report, Iranian authorities have executed at least 841 people so far in 2025.

From The Times Of Israel, a second woman accuses International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct.

From The Jerusalem Post, the IDF and Shin Bet recover the body of Israeli hostage Ilan Weiss in the Gaza Strip.

From Jewish News Syndicate, children are filmed praising Palestinian terrorist leaders at a rally in Brussels, Belgium.

From Christianity Today, the difficult life of a Christian teacher at a Muslim school in Kenya.  (The last five links come via The Religion Of Peace.)

From Gatestone Institute, the war of disinformation over a famine that wasn't.

From The Stream, the destructive ideology that the world ignores or tolerates.

From The Daily Signal, according to estimates from the El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas, border security measures have cut Mexican drug cartel revenue by over $1 billion so far this year.

From The American Conservative, the White House makes a bizarre defense for President Trump allowing 600,000 Chinese students to attend American universities.  (How many Americans are allowed to go to college in China?)

From The Western Journal, a nursing supervisor put herself in "harm's way" to help a scared young victim of the aforementioned Minneapolis school shooting.

From The Hill, Salvadorian illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia ask a judge to place gag orders on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi.  (via The Western Journal.)

From BizPac Review, Vice President Vance and his caravan throw protesters a curveball in Wisconsin.

From The Daily Wire, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs the bill to redraw the state's congressional districts.

From the Daily Caller, former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell falsely calls the Minneapolis shooter a Trump supporter.

From CBS News, Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) reportedly will not seek reelection in 2026.  (Via AOL and the Daily Caller.)

From the New York Post, Culture Club lead singer Boy George no longer likes to sing the song Karma Chameleon.

From Breitbart, despite predictions by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, inflation holds steady in July.

From Newsmax, according to Speaker Johnson (R-LA), there "probably will be a vote of some sense" to require the Trump administration to release files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

And from the Genesius Times, CNN announces that it will stop reporting on the twice-aforementioned Minneapolis school shooting because the suspect was not a white Christian MAGA male.

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Thursday Things

On a warm and partly sunny Thursday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, mass shooting and the addiction to simple explanations.

From FrontpageMag, former Vice President Harris is an Islamophile, even more than former President Obama.

From Townhall, another Hamas supporter is honest and says the quiet part out loud.

From The Washington Free Beacon, the Trump administration withdraws a $715.8 loan for a power line that would have connected offshore bird choppers to the grid.

From the Washington Examiner, CDC Director Susan Monarez's lawyers argue that only President Trump has the power to fire her.

From The Federalist, a left-wing group seeks sues against an Ohio law that requires people who register to vote to prove that they are U.S. citizens.

From American Thinker, lessons from the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis.

From NewsBusters, media networks avoid saying much about the Minneapolis shooter or his motives.

From Canada Free Press, bird choppers and "carbon storage" are against humanity.

From TeleSUR, the Venezuelan military seizes illegal drugs and destroys drug trafficker shipyards.

From TCW Defending Freedom, immigration protests unite the British and the Irish, both Loyalists and Nationalists.

From EuroNews, Hungary sanctions a Ukrainian drone commander for three attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia.

From Free West Media, can Trump find a way out of his current box?

From ReMix, a migrant from Mali is arrested after allegedly killing a dog in Naro, Italy and then taking its body home to eat it.  (If you read Italian, read the story at La StampaCorriere Della Sera and/or Today(dot)It.)

From Balkan Insight, the Kosovo parliament is still in a deadlock.

From The North Africa post, Morocco exports a record amount of onions.

From The New Arab, Israeli forces raid a site near Kisweh, Syria, a suburb of Damascus.

From SwissInfo, Switzerland's Supreme Court upholds the rape conviction of Islamologist Tariq Ramadan.

From Gatestone Institute, Qatar does not seem interested in any agreement that ends the rule of Hamas in Gaza.

From Radio Free Asia, closing arguments reach their conclusion in the trail of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai.

From The Stream, the world's lines are blurred, but God's word is not.

From The Daily Signal, Vice President Vance accuses Democrats of attacking prayer in the wake of the aforementioned Minneapolis school shooting.

From The American Conservative, downplaying crime in order to stick it to Trump is a risky bet for the Democrats.

From The Western Journal, ABC is called out for trying to make the aforementioned Minneapolis shooter look like a Trump supporter.

From BizPac Review, Amazon's "woke" remake of The Wizard of Oz is already getting panned.

From The Daily Wire, the Department of Labor diminishes the role of Biden-era DEI and welcomes back faith-based organizations into its federal grant process.

From the Daily Caller, a common thread between two school shooters.

From Breitbart, the media pretend that the motive of the twice-aforementioned Minneapolis school shooter is a mystery.

From Newsmax, Trump questions my governor's political future.

And from the New York Post, the future of waste collection includes self-driving trash cans and quiet electric garbage trucks.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Wednesday Whatnot

On a warm and partly sunny Wednesday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, the question of whether President Trump can fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is somewhat complicated.

From FrontpageMag, then-Vice President Harris's horrible presidential campaign.

From Townhall, a gunmen kills two children and injures at least 14 others, and three adults, at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, and anti-gunners waste no time in exploiting the victims.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Palestinian activist hailed as a "hero" by the media claims that she is "fighting the Jews, not Zionism".

From the Washington Examiner, more on the shooting in Minneapolis.

From The Federalist, a Wisconsin county judge will face trial for allegedly helping an illegal alien flee from ICE.

From American Thinker, the climate won't cooperate with dire predictions, so the dire predictions will keep coming.

From MRCTV, employees of Vanity Fair threaten to "walk out the [bleepity-bleep] door" if the magazine puts First Lady Melania Trump on its cover.

From NewsBusters, The View is set to start its 29th season hosting left-wing Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, with no right-wing guests.

From Canada Free Press, the only signals needed at crosswalks are "walk" and "don't walk".

From TeleSUR, will the relationship between the Sheinbaum administration in Mexico and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration start a new era or bring on a clash?

From TCW Defending Freedom, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage's plans to stem the tide on illegal immigration.

From Snouts in the Trough, it looks like SitT will soon be taken down.

From EuroNews, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly not interested in becoming the president of Germany.

From ReMix, the American man who saved a woman from a Syrian migrant, who was then knifed in the face, speaks out against Germany's mass immigration policies.

From Balkan Insight, Serbian police confront students manning a blockade at the University of Novi Sad.

From The North Africa Post, members of the Algerian-backed group Polisario have fled to Syria, with some being detained by Syrian authorities.

From The New Arab, protests over a proposed disarmament of Hezbollah cause U.S. envoy Tom Barrack to cut short his visit to Lebanon.

From The Jerusalem Post, two Arab teenagers are arrested in Paris for allegedly plotting an attack against the Eiffel Tower and some synagogues.

From Jewish News Syndicate, exposing the liars who allege a "genocide" in Gaza one fact at a time.

From Gatestone Institute, will U.S. President Trump let Russian President Putin win?

From Radio Free Asia, according to satellite images, a damaged Chinese coast guard ship is under repair at the Chinese island of Hainan.

From The Stream, what's really dangerous about progressive Christianity.

From The Daily Signal, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy celebrates the inaugural ride of a new high-speed train between Union Station in Washington, D.C. and Penn Station in New York City.

From The American Conservative, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants Trump to attack Iran again.

From The Western Journal, still more on the aforementioned shooting in Minneapolis, and information about the shooter.

From BizPac Review, during a cabinet meeting, Trump compliments Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his new AI data center, currently under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana.

From The Daily Wire, after a transgender person killed six people at a Christian school in Tennessee in 2023, leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Governor Tim Walz (D) for help, but he did nothing.

From the Daily Caller, still more on the aforementioned Minneapolis school shooter.

From the New York Post, mom-and-pop New York City landlords fear that their rental properties will become unsellable if mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) wins.

From Breitbart, severe winds destroy the "orgy dome" at the Burning Man festival.

From Newsmax, a Trump administration plan would place some limits on visas for foreign students, cultural exchange visitors and media personnel.

And from SFGate, a zip code in California has just 38 residents, but gets almost 10 million visitors each year.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

A Few Late Tidings For Tuesday

On a warm and sunny Tuesday, after I've returned from running around, here are a few things going on:

From National Review, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) doesn't know his limitations.

From FrontpageMag, according to suspected ISIS commander Muthar Hamid Qaayid, sending people to the outside world and then ruling it is the whole idea.

From Townhall, according to an opinion column, Democrats will promise more violence, regardless of whether they win elections.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a lawsuit attempting to blame oil companies for a woman's death during a heat wave in 2021 doesn't bother to mention her heart disease.

From the Washington Examiner, for Democrats, bashing President Trump is their only game.

From The Federalist, the media show their hypocrisy when it comes to burning flags.

From American Thinker, the selective outrage on behalf of "states' rights".

From MRCTV, trust in the media plummets to about the same level as former Speaker Pelosi's (D-Cal) approval rating.

From NewsBusters, ABC, CBS and NBC spend 17 minutes on El Salvadorian illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia and zero time on the illegal alien truck driver who allegedly killed three people by making an illegal U-turn in Florida.

From TCW Defending Freedom, sign up for a sanctuary town in the U.K. free of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

From Snouts in the Trough, when people from our favorite religion are murdered, it only matters when Jews are the cause.

From The Sun, two men are flogged in the Indonesian province of Aceh are flogged for engaging in same-sex relations.  (I've run across several sites named The Sun.  This one has a web address that includes ".my", which indicates that it's from Malaysia.)

From the Killeen Daily Herald, an Afghan man is charged in the deaths of two people and injuries to 44 others in a car-ramming attack in Munich, Germany.

From Jewish News Syndicate, Australia will expel Iran's ambassador over the Iranian government's role in attacks against Australian Jews.

From Middle East Forum, how Middle Eastern states get mosques to influence Muslim communities in the West.

From Gatestone Institute, the real reason why Jews are hated.

From The Stream, Turkish President ErdoÄŸan's maritime crusade against Israel.

From The Daily Signal, 23 Republican state attorneys general condemn Biden-era funding for a scheme that tried to "rig the courts" against American energy.

From The American Conservative, the lost cosmopolitan legacy of the Levant.

From The Western Journal, Trump weighs in on how to make Cracker Barrel great again.

And from USA Today, NFL player Travis Kelce and singer Taylor Swift decide to make it legal.

Monday, August 25, 2025

Monday Links

On a warm and sunny Monday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, Salvadorian illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrenders to ICE in Baltimore.  (That's "Balmer" in the Merlin dialect.)

From FrontpageMag, Muslim leaders planning to build a community near Dallas claim to be the targets of "Islamophobic" attacks.

From Townhall, are Democrats really sure about escalating the conflicts over redistricting?

From The Washington Free Beacon, much of the FireAid money raised by celebrities went to groups that do not serve white people or groups who serve illegal aliens.

From the Washington Examiner, the Coast Guard seizes over 75,000 pounds of illegal drugs in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.

From The Federalist, the "Big Beautiful Bill" will prevent Medicaid funds from going to people who are no longer with us.

From American Thinker, the fatal flaw in progressivism is that it rejects America.

From MRCTV, when MSNBC anchorman Chris Matthews got a "thrill" from a speech by then-Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

From Newsmax, the requirement that immigrants have good moral character in order to be naturalized is not new.

From Canada Free Press, Generation Z does not have crystallized intelligence.

From TeleSUR, Venezuela deploys 15,000 security forces personnel to two of its border states.

From TCW Defending Freedom, the "shocking" reality behind the U.K.'s asylum numbers, which will only get worse.

From EuroNews, Hungary and Slovakia have a spat with Ukraine over the bombing of the Druzhba oil pipeline.

From Free West Media, according to a Swiss study, coronavirus booster shots increase the risk of respiratory infection.

From ReMix, U.S. envoy Richard Grenell slams German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's "weak and woke response" to a slashing attack by a Syrian migrant against an American tourist who was trying to protect a woman.

From Balkan Insight, in its effort to obtain energy independence, Moldova focuses on intermittent renewable power sources.

From The North Africa Post, the Nigerian Air Force kills at least 35 terrorists in the state of Borno, near the border with Cameroon.

From The New Arab, a Druze leader calls for a separate region in Syria for his minority community.

From the Daily Mail, an asylum seeker in the Netherlands allegedly stabs a 17-year-old girl to death a few days after being arrested for an alleged rape.

From The Jerusalem Post, Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories releases videos showing Hamas's brutality against Gazan people.

From Gatestone Institute, according to Muslim scholars in Qatar, nothing is more important than killing Israelis.

From Radio Free Asia, Cambodian lawmakers pass a bill that would allow the government to revoke the citizenship of people convicted of conspiring with foreign governments against the national interest.

From The Stream, what Orthodox nun Agapia Stephanopoulos didn't tell right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson during their interview.  (She is a sister of former Mr. Bill henchman George Stephanopoulos.)

From The Daily Signal, the U.S. government will take a 9.9 percent stake in the company Intel.  (Government and big business getting in bed together....what could go wrong?)

From The American Conservative, unrestrained liberalism brings about "Ireland against the Irish".

From The Western Journal, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announces what's next for the aforementioned Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

From BizPac Review, Democrats circle their wagons to defend a "Pride" crosswalk in Florida.

From The Daily Wire, author J.K. Rowling flags the message that transgender activists are sending to women and girls.

From the Daily Caller, President Trump plans to sign an executive order to end "cashless bail" for arrested criminals in Washington, D.C.

From the New York Post, the concierge doctor scene in the Hamptons.

From Breitbart, The New York Times reports that for the first time in decades, the immigrant population in the U.S. has decreased.

From Newsmax, the Chief Twit's AI startup xAI sues Apple and OpenAI in federal court of conspiring to suppress its products.

And from The Babylon Bee, Trump decrees than anyone who does not bow down to the American flag when the sound of musical instruments is heard shall be thrown into the fiery furnace.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Sunday Stuff

On a warm and cloudy Sunday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, according to a study, mental illness is more likely after abortion than after giving birth.

From FrontpageMag, heat-related deaths in Europe decrease because more people there are using air conditioning.

From Townhall, Boston police defy Mayor Michelle Wu (D) and secretly help ICE to arrest illegal aliens.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a review of a book about Jews rebelling against the Roman Empire.

From the Washington Examiner, congresscritter Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and my governor (D) confirm plans to redistrict their respective states.  (Here in Maryland, only one of our eight congresscritters is a Republican.)

From American Thinker, RINO congresscritters do what Democrats want them to.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC co-host and former Lieutenant Governor (R-MD) Michael Steele agrees with congresscritter Madeleine Dean (D-PA) that President Trump wants to take over cities in order to cancel future elections.  (I vaguely recall similar paranoia about Presidents Bush the Younger and Obama allegedly either wanting to cancel the next election or refusing to step down.)

From TCW Defending Freedom, Christians must unite against the evil represented by U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

From Jewish News Syndicate, 26 europarliamentcritters call for the firing of the E.U.'s antisemitism coordinator over her defense of Israel.

From Gatestone Institute, Iran gets a surprising new neighbor.

From The Stream, "seeing beyond".

From The Daily Signal, some people have compassion for criminals, but not for victims.

From The American Conservative, Virginia Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (R) is four years late to the outrage cycle.

From The Western Journal, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) vows to fight on after a federal judge blocks the expansion of the illegal alien detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz".

And from PJ Media, how much urban violence and mayhem are Democrats willing to put up with?

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Saturday Links

As the warm and sunny weather continues on a Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, Disney tries to figure out how to appeal to young men, with gay female characters.

From Townhall, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signs a bill to ban taxpayer funding of abortion-related logistics.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Russian President Putin makes the mistake of insulting U.S. First Lady Melania Trump.

From the Washington Examiner, according to ICE, Salvadorian illegal alien Abrego Garcia may be deported to Uganda.

From American Thinker, Democrats don't want immigrants with good moral character.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC correspondent Ali Velshi attacks President Trump's agenda for the Smithsonian, but omits important details.

From TCW Defending Freedom, after more than 80 years, rage over the Warsaw Uprising in World War II still simmers.

From Snouts in the Trough, a story about coronavirus vaccines in Japan that the channel BBC Verify will probably not be reporting.

From The Times Of Israel, Iran claims to have built weapons plants in "several" countries.

From Gatestone Institute, the case for supporting the Iranian people.

From The Stream, a "tale of two churches".

From The Daily Signal, advocates demand action as the genocide of Christians in Nigeria surges.

From The American Conservative, for the time being, there will be no peace between Russia and Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, three pickpockets in Venice, Italy mess with the wrong American traveler.

From BizPac Review, Netflix gives hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett a new platform.

From The Daily Wire, you child's school might be defying Trump's orders and still pushing transgender ideology.

From the Daily Caller, more on the aforementioned Abrego Garcia possibly being deported to Uganda.

From the New York Post, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken learns that "closed" means "closed".

From Breitbart, Trump administration trade counselor Peter Navarro calls for an investigation of the FBI agents who targeted him.

From Newsmax, the number of illegal aliens being held in federal detention centers has risen 50 percent since Trump retook the presidency.

And from Fox News, cable TV host Bill Maher warns Democrats on how Trump is picking off their voters.  (via the New York Post)

Friday, August 22, 2025

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and sunny Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, California comes up with a "Gavinmander".

From FrontpageMag, some simple but inconvenient (for Democrats) truths about slavery.

From Townhall, you radical environmentalists had better stay the [bleep] away from our dogs.

From The Washington Free Beacon, school districts revert to diesel-powered buses because electric buses procured under the Biden administration can't be repaired.

From the Washington Examiner, a protest sign against Virginia Lieutenant Governor and gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears (R) is condemned for invoking Jim Crow.

From The Federalist, some ideas for Disney if it wants to make movies that will appeal to young men.

From American Thinker, the store and restaurant chain Cracker Barrel embraces DEI by removing both the old "cracker" and the barrel from its logo.

From NewsBusters, MSNBC and CNN contributor Douglas Brinkley claims that President Trump wants to return the U.S. "segregation of some kind".

From Canada Free Press, Western culture is being destroyed by the elites who control our lives.

From TeleSUR, the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization holds a summit meeting in Colombia.

From TCW Defending Freedom, where will asylum seekers rejected in the U.K. go?

From EuroNews, according to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, the organization needs to make sure that Russia under President Putin never attacks Ukraine again.

From ReMix, according to Polish authorities, the drone which crashed into a cornfield in Osiny, Poland likely came from Belarus.  (If you read Polish, read the story at RMF24.  While ReMix spells the town's name "Osyny", RMF24 spells it "Osiny".)

From Balkan Insight, Bulgaria is hit with a new water supply crisis.

From The North Africa Post, a Moroccan researchers wins the silver medal at the Silicon Valley International Invention Festival 2025 for his innovation in detecting breast cancer.

From The New Arab, what's next for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who hand over their weapons?

From The Jerusalem Post, the manager of a resort in Porté-Puymorens, France is arrested after denying entry to 150 Israeli kids.

From Gatestone Institute, to achieve dominance in AI, the U.S. should use fusion to generate electricity.

From Radio Free AsiaPhilippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro condemns Chinese naval activity in the South China sea near the island of Second Thomas Shoal.

From The Stream, the Trump era is epitomized by the words of a prosecutor while being arrested.

From The Daily Signal, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) demands documents from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

From The American Conservative, the challenges of a peace in Ukraine.

From The Western Journal, a center-left tries to tell the Democrats to avoid certain terms.

From BizPac Review, a sexual predator in Louisiana will soon not be fully intact.  (Reader discretion is advised.)

From The Daily Wire, "Second Lady Usha Vance wants children to slow down" from all their distractions.

From the Daily Caller, the Department of Justice releases its interview with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

From the New York Post, the FBI raids the Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office of former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

From Breitbart, Canada drops most of its tariffs on goods from the U.S.

From Newsmax, longtime Republican operative Roger Stone welcomes the aforementioned John Bolton to the club.

And from SFGate, California becomes the latest state in which to find radioactive shrimp.