Tuesday Links - 1 September

Meg Storm at Megyn Kelly is first with What We Know About 3 Secret Service Officials Put on Leave Amid Investigation into ‘Potential Misconduct’

Three employees in the U.S. Secret Service communications office were reportedly escorted from the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters Monday amid an investigation into the possible disclosure of classified or sensitive information to the press.

Miguel Gonzalez - Castrated Brits.

I have nothing to say that denigrates more what passes for pride in the soon-to-be the Caliphate of Al-Britannia as they are doing a wonderful job themselves.

The Other McCain - How You Got Hasan Piker: It Started With Cowardice in the Public School System

What a Gordian knot of misunderstanding! What Piker is sharing here is not, however, a fringe extremist belief, but rather what has become a mainstream view of American history. We hear similar things said by Democrats and Republicans alike.

Again from Miguel Gonzalez - The Only Ones & Mag Dumps.

Now imagine if a civilian like us does mag dumps with that same carelessness. We would be brought up in charges and crucified in effigy everywhere.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 August 2026: Terry Thomas Chocolate Clockwork Orange Edition

China is secretly fueling America's datacenter rage. (Axios)

The guys pushing for all the datacenters are making it easy for them, though.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Bummer: Democrats Aren’t Talking About Global Sizzling

See? Trump Derangement Syndrome is more important to them than ‘climate change’.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Turkey: We Put Out A Warrant For Netanyahu’s Arrest. Israel: Enjoy Greece Having Our Cutting Edge Weapons.

The conflict between Greeks and Turks is much, much older than the Turkish state itself, stretching back not only to the early days of the Ottoman Empire, but to the Byzantine Empire (more Hellenic than Roman, especially at its height), which controlled almost all of the land occupied by modern Turkey.

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Embracing The Suck

Not a good week for Senators fans. First we get swept by the Angels in a two-game set at RFK, then it was back on the road to New York, where we lost two out of three to the Hated Yankees.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds - Goodbye, Dolly.

Helen and I made a pilgrimage to the memorial for St. Dolly of Sevierville, by which I mean the ad hoc demonstration of love in front of the Dolly Parton statue at the Sevier County Courthouse.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Sunday: More Coffee, Please

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane - The Word Cloud Gap

I thought it would be interesting to have students in my Sociology of Guns seminar complete the Let’s Talk Guns project and compare their responses to the others I have collected.

Paul Vallas at Chicago Contrarian - Chicago’s Ongoing Budget Circus

With neither the will nor expertise to address the spending side of the city’s financial crisis, Mayor Johnson resorts to blaming his critics in the City Council