22 August 2025

Friday Links - 22 August

William Teach at Pirates Cove is first with Washington Post: Local “DC Officials” Wonder If All These National Guardsman Are Necessary

In other words, they’re upset that they have lost lots of power. Power granted to them by the duly elected Congress which also gave the POTUS authority to deal with emergencies

Doug Ross - Top 20 Posts - Aug. 19, 2025. DR has an every-other-day list of posts from X. (Tweets?)

Oven-fresh posts, just like Grandma used to make.

Bearing Arms - Gun Grabbers Apparently Baffled Why Firearms Industry Cozy With Pro-Gun Groups

They seem genuinely surprised, though, that [Palmetto State Armory] would have a tight relationship with an organization like Gun Owners of America instead of, say, the Violence Policy Coalition, all while demonizing them in the first place.

Borepatch - Wow

I would also suspect that many of the leaders from Central and Eastern Europe are also serious. The ones in the photo, not so much.

Christopher F. Rufo at City Journal - The New Yorker’s Racialism Problem

I published screenshots of St. Felix’s stream-of-hatred writing, sparking a media firestorm, with headlines in the Daily Mail, New York Post, and other international outlets. Within hours, St. Felix had deleted her X account and the New Yorker had blocked me from engaging with its posts on the same platform—a rare move from a national publication.

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit - ALL THE RESIDENT’S MEN: Why Did Shari Redstone Do It?

As with many of Biden’s reelection ads, a lot of cuts in this interview; two-shots to B-roll to medium shots to close-ups to reverse angle shots, to likely hide the long gaps and rambling in Biden’s answers.

Flopping Aces - Illegal alien crashes Gavin Newsom’s Presidential campaign

Governor Gavin Newsom’s top 20 failures in California

The Other McCain - This Day in American History

People want us to get angry about stuff that happened 400 years ago, and I ain’t even got time to be angry over what happened last week.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 20 August 2025: Es Reignet Edition

95% of generative AI pilot programs are failing. (Fortune)

You gotta pump those numbers up.

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