Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 29 August

The Right Way - Top of the News

TRUMP VICTORY: ALL IRANIAN MINES CLEARED From Strait of Hormuz—Lay Another and Your Ships Will Be Destroyed - Geller Report via ANCIPIENT NEWS

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Early Evening Edition)

Dana Loesch: The Pharisaitical Approach of False Shepherds Makes Modern Feminism Worse
Don Surber: A story the media won’t cover

EBL - Tim Curry, RIP

Instapundit: Page Six: Tim Curry dead at 80. RIP
Very good actor and he will be missed. Sad, right on the heels of Dolly.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 28 August 2026: Claudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Edition

Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register)
$13 billion for this?

Small Dead Animals - Wednesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada: Elbows Up Canadians don’t worry about deficits. The wonderful life of diplomats. Colluding. Canada’s Muslim Brotherhood. Carney’s Muslim values.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Muslim values. Can I be a migrant?

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - LinkSwarm For August 28, 2026

The Supreme Court hands President Trump a huge win on voter integrity.
Democrats need to cheat to win. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
California passes the Don’t Investigate Democrat Fraud Act

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/28/2026

Iran’s currency plunged to a record low this week, crossing two million rials per U.S. dollar on informal markets as households rushed to convert their savings into hard currency ahead of additional U.S. sanctions.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Lake America

Bloomberg, US Aims to Revive Civil War-Era Court to Claim Iran Oil as Prize. Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet, "Prize courts? For real, prize courts?" Quote Ben Penn @benjaminpenn, "SCOOP: Justice Dept. plans activating long-dormant maritime war court

The Glibertarians - Friday Morning Links

Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective
Trump Admin Ramps Up Haiti Deportation Flights

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.27.26 (Evening Edition)

Flopping Aces: Abdul El-Sayed’s goals would end the US, also, El-Sayed teams up with Piker against Jews
Gates Of Vienna: So You Can Beat Up Women — That’s Brave

Vlad Tepes - CBC policy revealed: Full on deception to cover for Islam and more: Links post 1 for August 27, 2026

1. CBC Memo: 911 hijackings MAY NOT be referred to as a “terrorist Attack”.
[SNIP] But in this one case I do half agree with them. The 911 attack should be called islamic Jihad.

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism, 08/28/2026 – Back to The Economist!

Welcome back to Day 586 of America’s liberation from the Biden*/Harris occupation! Let’s go back across the pond to see what the Limeys have to say!
The Unwelcoming States of America

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Nature Rights: Endorsed By National Geographic; Legislation Presented In The U.K.; Rejected By Oregon Voters

Remember when National Geographic was about tribal boobies? Now they’re all in on “Nature Rights”.
A bill has been introduced to the U.K. to establish “Nature Rights” as “foundational”

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 08.28.26

Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Secures 17 More Sheriff Endorsements
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Role of the Church Militant

Cafe Hayek - Some Links

David Henderson challenges Rob Schneider’s case for military conscription.
Mike Munger exposes the faulty reasoning of today’s critics of Milton Friedman.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Massive Study Says Vaping Really Is The Most Effective Way to Quit Smoking – But There's a Catch
Who Knew? The WNBA Actually Matters Now!

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 26 /26

'Medicare for All' means Medicare fraud for all of Dearborn.
Abdul El-Sayed Served as Advisor to Muslim Medical Firm Accused of “Exploiting Medicare” in “Scam”

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Secretary Rubio Suspends all Visa Reviews Pending Total State Dept Retraining Effort

Communist China Has Its Eyes on Your Hospital Bed - Rick Scott
The Oil Premium Breaks on New Sanctions - Vaughn Cordle, CFA

I leave you with Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4102 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Friday's Political and Current Event Memes from Wirecutter.

Prosecutor Hates Self-Defense

Is anyone shocked? Self-defense cases rise in Jackson County; prosecutor wants reform

Jackson County, Missouri, in the extreme western part of the state, and it is home to Kansas City, Missouri.

Missouri has a stand your ground law.

Prosecutor Johnson's office declined to charge in 12 cases in July and 46 for the year, citing self-defense statutes.

Is it perfect? Of course not. Justice is blind, because it is not perfect.

"More people in our community are using force, very often deadly, and feeling justified in doing so," Johnson said. "It is not our goal to remove anyone's guns from their home or possession. We are just trying to limit instances in which deadly force is justified in our community."

They don't want to remove the guns. They want to remove your ability to defend yourself. (Hat tip to Keep And Bear Arms.)

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

The Silicon Graybeard has some info on a space telescope being launched on Sunday. Some background on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

I've mentioned a couple of times that NASA's next big telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is launching Sunday morning on a Falcon Heavy at 7:26AM EDT, but I suppose I was quietly assuming that everyone has an idea about what that telescope is.

I knew NASA was developing a new space telescope, but I didn't know the name of it, or that it was launching tomorrow.

Here's where it gets wild. The September launch for the NGRST is eight months ahead of schedule, and under budget. When's the last time you heard something like that? I'm not sure I ever have.

Government contracting under budget? Surely that is a sign of End Times, or something.

Anyway, click thru for the details on the telescope, the mission, etc. 7:26 AM on Sunday is a bit early for me, I will probably watch it in replay. SpaceX usually has the videos live on X, and leaves them up for later viewing. I haven't checked to see if they are on YouTube, but any launches carried by the new networks usually end up there.

Cassandra Complex

Surf Rock is an enduring genre of music. While it was fairly popular in the 1960s, there are bands still producing it. Or there were about 10 years ago.

This is "Cassandra Complex" by The Mystery Men? Yes, the question mark is part of the name. It is from the album Sonos Delirium which came out in August of 2013.

Friday Links - 28 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things rolling with NICE Arrested Over 1,300 Illegals In D.C. Area

Yes, Democrats will attempt to protect even those illegals. Are all of them hardened criminals? No. But all are unlawfully present in the U.S.

Take It Outside by Alice Jones Webb - Basecamp Dispatch: Worth the Sit

My weekly check-in from the woods, the homestead, or somewhere else with spotty cell service

Miguel Gonzalez - When the ACLU misses its own point.

“Elegible voter” being the key words here. Do you know what disenfranchises ELEGIBLE voters?

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 26 August 2026: CNO Orrery Edition

SpaceX is building a new spaceport in Louisiana. (Tech Crunch)

Price tag $100 billion.

Learn a trade.

Again from William Teach - NICE Arrested Almost 50K In July

Keep those numbers going, folks!

The Other McCain - Did You Know That @ElonMusk Has Reinstated the @X Accounts of ‘Noted Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semites, and More’?

Mike Rowe - Off The Wall: Letters like this means a lot

Letters like this mean a lot. Not just to me and my team, but to the many individuals and companies who support mikeroweWORKS. Without their help, we couldn’t have assisted you, and I know the people who support my program appreciate hearing from people who have benefited from it. So thanks for writing.

The Tactical Hermit - The Surveillance State: Dispatcher resigns over Flock camera misuse

This is just ONE example of how easy it is to misuse these cameras and step all over your first amendment rights.

California Homeowner Disarms Home Invader

Self-defense rests on attitude, and it sounds like this guy had it in buckets. California Home Invader Disarmed by Resident, Killed With Own Gun

In the San Francisco area, not only did the gun control laws they love so much fail to keep a teenager disarmed, but his lack of knowledge led to fatal consequences for him.

This incident took place in Fremont, California, which is in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Fremont is about a 15 mile drive north of San Jose, and about 25 mile drive south of Oakland.

The residents suffered "non-life-threatening injuries." In other words, it sounds like they got banged up in the altercation, but are otherwise fine.

Good on them, too.

While this sounds like a completely justifiable case of self-defense to me, I am not the prosecuting attorney in Alameda County, California. I have no idea how the prosecutor in that corner of the Bay Area feels about self-defense.

Self-defense is a human right.

Professor Yamane Takes College Students to a Gun Range

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - The Calm Before the Range

His course Sociology of Guns starts with taking students, in small groups, to the range. Students have a chance to fire a gun, but none are required to do so. Safety first.

I am only partially joking when I say that the class goes downhill from day 1. Look at these smiles.

The video is only 8 minutes. (And I'm jealous of the collection of firearms.)

I recorded this video before the students came to the range, so stay tuned for a follow-on post recapping the event.

I have trouble envisioning any Ivy League university, or most state universities, allowing this class to proceed. Wake Forest seems like it must be a special place.

Flock Camera Meets Florida Man

Flock cameras are evil. More twists than a lifetime romance movie: Florida man arrested for destroying Flock camera | Eatgrueldog

Despite the decoy camera being worth, at most, several dollars worth of plastic filament, Evan Meyer was charged with three felonies:

attempted larceny/grand theft, criminal mischief of property damage worth more than $1,000, and property crimes against computer equipment supplie . The arrest report states that the operation was devised after several Flock cameras in Oviedo were stolen in late July and early August.

There is more, including politicians reaction. Click thru.

Anti-Gunners Claim the CDC is Wrong

Why? Because it doesn't support their narrative. What happened to "Trust the Science™?" Anti-gunners hilariously claim the CDC is wrong, the Gun Violence Archive is right

Who are The Gun Violence Archive (GVA), and its executive director Mark Bryant?

You’ll remember GVA, Mr. Bryant and his faulty numbers. He claimed there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and more realistic definition.

Lies, Damn lies, and Liberal, anti-gunner statistics.

Click thru for the web of lies, the web of organizations all tied to The Trace, and Bloomberg, and more.

Former NIAID Adviser Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Case

That is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US government. David Morens, former NIAID adviser, pleads guilty in COVID-19 records scheme - CBS News

Morens, a senior adviser at NIAID's Office of the Director from 2006 to 2022, was indicted in April and charged with five counts for what prosecutors said at the time was his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. by shielding federal records related to the COVID-19 pandemic from the public.

There is apparently at least one Unnamed Co-conspirator. I hope that means there is more to come.

According to the guilty plea, Morens and the two co-conspirators agreed to exchange emails about COVID-19 and its origins, as well as the terminated coronavirus grant, through Morens' personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH account, to hide federal records and evade public records laws.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer.

Nothing says integrity like hiding records.

Lanterns or Mystery Box the Show?

No one likes DC's new show Lanterns, and of course the usual suspects cry "Racism." The only reason anyone could hate this show is because they don't like a black Green Lantern.

If you want to know what is going on in Lanterns, they took Hal Jordan and gave him the Indiana Jones/Luke Skywalker treatment. He's an old, drunk who needs to be shown what to do by the younger minority. Unlike Indiana Jones, where he gets saved by his replacement, Hal Jordan was killed.

So now tell me how Derek Anderson is racist. Go ahead, I'll wait. The video is only 11 minutes.

This is Derek Anderson's video LANTERNS EPISODE 2 IS A MESS! James Gunn's DCU Doesn't Understand Green Lantern

Hollywood needs to die, and be replaced by something else.

Wednesday Links - 26 August

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is up first with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

1. Gates Of Vienna: The Wayward Bus
2. Gatestone Institute: Europe in Free Fall

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Morning Edition)

Dana Loesch: Why Are We Celebrating Huey Long?
Don Surber: Handicapping the Senate races

EBL - PETA ❤️ Maine Lobster Festival 🦞

Maine Lobster festival with PETA
AoSHQ: Canadian Oysters 🦪

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 August 2026: Infinite Indexes Edition

Why Aliexpress is muting your music. (The Register)
Because they're taking your fingerprints using inaudible sonar.
Really.

Small Dead Animals - Tuesday On Turtle Island

Lord Carney’s Canada: Tax and borrow. Carney sabotages trade relations. Liberals hate Israel.
The Democratic Party’s America: Rigged election. Weaponizing Islamophobia.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Just Another Sunday in the South

From Breitbart Bus Dig, The Sky Isn't Falling in the U.S. Treasury Market. News Wax notices Newsom Touts Trump Accounts for California Families. Matt Vespa at TownHall heard Trump Went Nuclear on Some Familiar Names Last Night.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 08.25.26 (Evening Edition)

CDR Salamander: Saildrone’s Spectre – Making Sub Chasers Great Again?
Chicago Boyz: StarMind

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – 08/22/2026, Back to The Nation!

How Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores
How dare RFK want Americans to be healthy!

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 7: Breitbart reported, “Ro Khanna Says Democrats Ditching Extremist Hasan Piker Would Show ‘Weakness.’”
Because, in their heart of hearts, Democrats agree with Piker

Political Hat - News of the Week (August 23rd, 2026)

Scandal Plagued Florida GOP Rep. Mills Ousted in Primary
Wasserman Shultz easily won in her black majority Florida district.

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

The Shekel – Coins, Law, and Commentary – SHARK!!!!!
Woodsterman Babes ………….

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 8/22/2026

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker mocked the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by sarcastically singing the song “We Are Charlie Kirk” during a live show in San Francisco on Friday.

Vlad Tepes - Australia UK and Canada switching to criminalization of state narratives from rule of law: 3 data points involving comedy

3. Canada was WAY ahead of the curve though with the dialectically named, “Human Rights Commissions”. A proxy court for the communist state to enforce narrative without the need for the transformation of law

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

She had a nanny?
What an absolute fucking bitch.
“We won!” “No. WE won!”

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Why Is Everything So Upside Down?
The Stop Nick Shirley Act

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 8/ 25 /26

The choice between MAGA and DSA.
Restore or Destroy America?

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Will Liberal Women Ever See the Damage They Are Doing?

Mocking Trump bores people Don Surber
The Data Republican Drama, or: Social media can be a really stupid place full of really stupid people eugyppius

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 08-23-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Memes … from MaddMedic, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4082 from 90 Miles From Tyranny, and Sunday’s Yeah, that was Quick Weekend is over Meme Drop 8-23-26 from Midwest Chick's Place.

Revisiting a Self-Defense Incident in Fort Worth

While I covered this incident a few days back, it is worth revisiting. 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after men exchange gunfire at Fort Worth home, police say

You can click thru for details.

I have said many times that if you need a court order of protection, often called a restraining order, then you also need a plan for your personal safety. Here is a quote from the video below:

Somewhere in a courthouse in Tarant County, there's a file. And in that file, there's an order. And on that order, there is a judge's signature. And that signature did exactly as much work as the toner it was printed with. Because an order is a request in a serious font.

There is at least one, and maybe two, rulings from SCOTUS that states clearly the police have no duty to protect you. No, not even if you have an order of protection.

This is Colion Noir's video Protective Orders Are Not A Self-Defense Plan

A judge just signed a piece of paper telling a man to stay away from another man's property. And the man read the paper and then showed up anyway.

The video is 7 minutes.

Here is a link to my previous post

Legal Defensive Gun Use in March

From The Crime Prevention Research Center: Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 24 Cases During March 2026 - Crime Prevention Research Center

The CPRC has been publishing lists of legal self-defense incidents.

From Harlingen, Texas, on March 3rd, through North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, on March 29th.

SUURIN

About 25 years ago I became interested in the Nordic myths. I had studied some of the Greek and Roman stories in both high school and college, picked up a bit the Indian Upanishads along the way, and had also gotten a bit of the stories from some of native North Americans somewhere along the way, but I had never studied the Norse legends. (Marvel comics, notwithstanding.)

So while searching for something else, I had stumbled across a whole new world of music, which I listen to in fits and starts. I find it interesting, but not always engrossing enough to displace what I usually turn to. One of the artists I found from that path is Kati Rán. Here is how her Bandcamp page describes her work.

Nordic Music

Kati Rán creates song with historical folk instruments and composes her music with poetry reflecting our connection with nature.

I do like the idea of Midgardsblot. Midgard is the Norse term for the realm of Earth. Blot is a meeting of some significance. Midgardsblot is a music event that combines "extreme metal" with folk. Sounds like an interesting time. (More below the embedded video.) Midgardsblot is held every summer in Borre, Norway.

This song is "SUURIN" by Kati Rán. It was originally released as part of a 2012 EP Leaf. This version was recorded live at Midgardsblot 2016. You can find the lyrics and their English translation at this link. The lyrics are in Karelian, a Finnic language spoken mainly by the Karelian people in the Russian Republic of Karelia.

Here's a link to the "after movie" for Midgardsblot 2016. "And a good time was had by all."

RIP Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton Dean: January 19, 1946 to August 25, 2026

This is a clip from Steel Magnolias, though it isn't the best part of the movie, it is her role that I like the most of all the movies she's been in.

Tuesday Links - 25 August

Juliette Ochieng starts us off with A Solution Dangled in Front of Me: Then snatched away

Two weeks ago, I thought my Give Send Go car campaign was going to be over.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Federal Judge Knocks Down Colorado Law On Inspecting Federal Immigration Centers

The judge had to explain federalism to the Democrats

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - What I’m Making My Students Read?

By popular demand, I have a bonus post about Sociology of Guns Version 11: the reading list.

Miguel Gonzalez - Boston is back in the hands of the British.

At least in Stupid Spirit.

The Other McCain - What ‘Our Democracy’ Really Means

For many years I have said that, if it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all. The only “principle” they have is a lust for power.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: A Better Start Than Last Year

Meanwhile, we’re 5-7, a game behind Boston and Milwaukee and just 1.5 games behind Minnesota. It’s April in 1975, and we think we have a good shot at the playoffs this year.

Irons in the Fire - Preferred Religion and PC Idiocy in Californicated

Guarantee that if someone had suggested these students be taken to a Catholic Mass, or a Jewish Temple for the Sabbath, the same people who pushed this would've sprouted bleeding hemorrhoids in outrage; but have them attend a mosque and take part in their ceremony?

Again from Miguel Gonzalez - Ahhh! The aroma of Clickbait by deception.

If you go to the actual guidelines for the class, you will read that there is no firearm or ammunition handling in the classroom. And the basic rules of safety taught to young kids are not Cooper’s Rules but NRA Eddie Eagle’s of Stop-Don’t Touch-Leave the Area-Tell an Adult.

But why be factual when enraging idiots with a fake image is likely to generate clicks and thus income?

Meep at STUMP - CTU Lawsuit Follow-up: Reactions

Why can’t I find anybody who supports the CTU’s side?

Crime Prevention Research Center - Just 15 House Democrats were willing to sign a letter saying that “We want safety, not lawlessness”

In an open letter, 15 Democrat congressmen declared: “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are responsible, not reckless,” “We believe government should solve problems, not create them,” “We are mainstream, not extreme,” and “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” Taken together, however, the vast majority of Democrats rejected these statements as too controversial.

Again from The Other McCain - A Distraction From the Distraction

Anyway, I’ve told my kids what I want for Christmas is an official Mac Jones jersey, which costs more than the team owner was willing to spend on a hooker. But I ain’t going near no Ohio trailer parks.

People Need to Keep their Animals Under Control

It isn't hard to do. Man fatally shot dog in self-defense in Miramar, police say - WSVN 7News

Not all threats are two-legged.

After an investigation into the incident, police determined the man shot the dog to protect himself from being attacked.

Miramar, Florida, is in southwestern Broward County. If is about 5 miles from the Atlantic coast, due west of Hallendale Beach. It is about 10 miles southwest of downtown Fort Lauderdale, and it borders the Everglades & Francis S. Taylor Wildlife Management Area to the west of the city.

Even though I drove through Miramar, twice a day, five days a week, for a time, while commuting from Broward County, to Miami, I can't really tell you very much about Miramar.

Self-defense is a human right.

Police Officer Abusing Flock Cameras

Allegedly. But it just highlights that Flock cameras are evil and need to be removed. Officer accused of misusing Flock cameras to track estranged ex-wife more than 700 times, police say

Christopher Goodson faces two criminal charges after an investigation found evidence that he allegedly misused Flock cameras while on and off duty to track his ex-wife.

After all of that, he faces 2 charges, which doesn't seem like enough.

... one count of offenses against users of computers, computer systems, computer networks and electronic devices, and one count of official misconduct.

The Brass on the city in question is downplaying everything.

“This is an unfortunate incident,” Haines City Police Chief Isaac Jackson said in the release.

Haines City, Florida, is in Polk County, roughly 30 miles southwest of Orlando.

Welcome to the Panoptican.

Hat tip to Angry Cops (Detective Richard Hy), and his video Caught On Camera: The Truth About FLOCK Abuse. I have it set up to start at the appropriate section, though the whole video is good, and only 12 minutes long.