TODAY'S NEWS, August 28 (and a week's worth of catch-up)

HEADLINES: Dolly Parton, Tim Curry dead; Nepal disaster caused by a glacier breakup; DemoKKKrat Piker Panic; Liberals' war on beauty

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) For a party supposedly cruising to re-take the House and Senate, the DemoKKKrats appear awfully worried. First, truly Stalinist Spooge “influencer” Hasan Piker called for killing capitalists.
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2042031825887936702

If this walking piece of excrement dogpickle makes a DIME off his podcasts, he should be first. But Hakeem “Movin’ on Up” Jeffries has condemned Piker, and other toadstool establishment types in the DemoKKKrat Terror Party are joining him.
https://x.com/HenMazzig/status/2092286111288582476

It keeps coming back to the what I believe is a growing DEEP fear among voters that the DemoKKKrats actually want anyone who is white, middle class, remotely affluent, or has functioning cranial apparatus dead, dead, DEAD. The Blaze recounts 14 times DemoKKKrats have called for political violence.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-political-violence-rhetoric-examples
Consider PA’s supposedly “moderate” governor Josh Shapiro, who wants to eliminate the words “mother” and “pregnant women” from the state’s health code.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-governor-wants-to-remove-mothers-and-pregnant-woman-from-state-health-code

I told you and told you, there is no such thing as a “moderate” DemoKKKrat Terror Party member. Elsewhere, to paraphrase Johnny Cash, “She can hear that DemoKKKrat civil war train a-comin’” and Occasional Cortex has signed back up with the DemoKKKrat Fascists of America (DSA) after ignoring them for seven years.
https://heritagereview.com/ocasio-cortez-rejoins-democratic-socialists-of-america-amid-growing-2028-presidential-speculation/

(It was also revealed she spent $19,000 on a ketamine specialist).https://conservativebrief.com/ocasio-cortez-on-103991/

The DemoKKKrat civil war is taking shape with the fascist DSA-ers refusing to campaign with Cackles.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nobody-wants-to-campaign-with-kamala
And it accelerated with the elevation of a pro-Israel Congressman to a powerful Middle East subscommittee.
https://www.nysun.com/article/knives-out-for-house-democratic-leadership-after-pro-israel-jewish-congressman-installed-atop-powerful-middle-east-subcommittee

2) President Trump is the TOAT (Troll of All Time). He
signed an order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-signs-executive-order-to-change-the-name-of-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-6080371
in a shot against Canuckistan and its ChiCom friendly policies.
Before you freak out, let me remind you that MOST of you daily comply with such antics in other parts of the world. African states rename themselves all the time. (I’m still waiting for some place like the Congo to rename itself Black Superiority And All Whites Must Die). But most of you routinely refer to . . . “Palestine,” an artificial Roman re-name of Judea., Who (besides me) still challenges that name?

3) A new DHS investigation showed that FEMA, under the Demented Pervert Rutabaga, told western Carolina’s mostly Trump supporters to drop dead after the last hurricane.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fema-trump-biden-hurricane-noem?utm_source=theblaze-breaking
Today’s headline says three more were fired in addition to “others” fired earlier, but doesn’t say how many “others” there were.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-fires-fema-workers-ig-report-crew-skipped-homes-pro-trump-signs

4) This must be stopped. The National Park Trust is now organizing Ramadam “Muslim only” hikes through national parks. Imagine if this were “Baptists only” or “Mormons only” or, God forbid, “Whites only.”https://www.zerohedge.com/political/imagine-whites-only-hike-through-countryside

5) Seth Keshel’s latest update
https://www.captaink.us/p/less-than-a-month-from-election-season
shows 208 GOP safe and leaners, Ds 203, and 24 contested. He also notes that The Hobbit, Katie Hobbs, is getting ten million dollars from the DemoKKKrat Terrorist governor committee. He finds that surprising given that “polls” supposedly have her winning by 15. He also recalls that AZ has a strange tradition or reelecting its governors going all the way back to 1966. In other words, Andy Biggs is a lot closer there than what is being portrayed, and that the AZ GOP has a massive registration edge. Just for one indicator, Eli Crane is leading by a ton in his house race, which couldn’t be the case if the other AZ #s
were correct.

6) Not sure, cuz you can never tell when a DemoKKKrat Terror Party judge will pull a restraining order out of his anal cavity,
https://x.com/Unite4Freedom/status/2092667840830562353
but the USPS ballot rules were published, meaning now they are policy and in the Federal Register.
https://x.com/Unite4Freedom/status/2092667840830562353

Shipwreckedcrew thinks there will still be some sort of court induced halt-—and Zen Master agrees-—but ZM doesn’t think that the rule would affect the swing states one way or another. The juicepoocher Judge Talwani already issued a restraining order, after saying she’d wait for the administration’s lawyers to file an appeal on Sept. 3.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/27/judge-blocks-trumps-mail-in-voting-plan-again-01053826

Talwani is hoping to move too fast for gubment lawyers to respond, but the Supes already said Talwani’s earlier decision irreparably harmed Uncle Sam (i.e., the good guys). No one knows for sure what will happen next.
https://shipwreckedcrew.substack.com/p/the-lawfare-over-new-postal-rules
Meanwhile, three USPS employees were charged in a Houston $24 million check fraud scheme.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/postal-employees-among-5-charged-in-alleged-24-million-check-theft-scheme-6079755

7) States race to eliminate food-stamp fraud before federal penalties kick in.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/states-race-to-cut-food-stamp-errors-before-penalties-kick-in-6070637

8) In just another story about the incredible social decline brought on by DemoKKKrats, Lindsay Clancy, the MA mother who killed her three kids then blamed post-partum depression, now faces trial. A
https://technofog.substack.com/p/lindsay-clancy-and-insanity
ll the kiddo haters everywhere have rushed to this molochian mom’s defense. Oh, and the Trump golf-course would-be assassin had “chilling” intel on the private schedule of Melania Trump. Now, where did he get that?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-golf-course-intruder-had-chilling-intel-on-melania

9) The New York Slimes spiked a story on how the DemoKKKrats were using spam to target “gullible grannies.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/08/27/peter-schweizer-nyt-killed-story-exposing-how-democratic-spam-pacs-target-gullible-grannies/

10) Air Traffic Controllers left work early before a March crash of an Air Canada jet into a fire truck.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/air-traffic-controllers-left-work-early-laguardia-crash-faa

11) Illicit Mullah Omar’s son was linked to a raid involving guns and ammo,
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omars-son-linked-to-apartment-raid-that-seized-guns-ammo
while this MA DemoKKKrat lawmaker was charged with benefit fraud and money laundering.
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/ma-state-rep-francisco-paulino-arrest/
Very rarely you’ll find an R involved in this stuff. Overwhelmingly, it’s the DemoKKKrat Terror Party. Then there’s this former NM DemoKKKrat leader found guilty on all 37 counts of bribery, mail fraud and overall cluckduckedness.https://www.facebook.com/100067691062734/posts/1367813395485016/

12) The feds are finally going after the George Soros non-profit as well as the Spoogistic Poverty Lawfare Center and CAIR in a major tax crackdown.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/business/trump-admin-set-to-target-george-soros-nonprofit-in-tax-crackdown/
As Jeff Childers puts it, this is the bookend for the USAID crackdown. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/countdown-friday-august-28-2026-c

But as Childers warns, the story is based on three “unnamed sources.” So it could be as bogus as Jellyroll’s latest diet. And after major crackdowns on Black Looters Matter and fascist so-called “antifa,” those groups are now reduced to a jihad against Flock cameras.
https://www.streetroots.org/news-stories/2026/08/20/portland-anarchists-play-camera-destruction-bingo-as-surveillance-infrastructure-explodes-in-popularity-and-real-life/
Hey, I’m down with that. You go, little Leninists! This could be a big problem for them, however, as Treas. Sec. Scott Bessent has said he was going after these morons and the State Department linked Portland fascist so-called antifal with terrorist groups.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-state-dept-reveals-portland-antifa-connection-hamas-irans-irgc-sweeping-terror-action
I’d say “The DemoKKKrat Terror Party,” but they’re already there. Effective? I’d say. “No Kings” has zero events planned just two months from elections.
https://www.nokings.org/
And let’s not forget the ChiComs, as the feds seized platforms used by the ChiComs to target U.S. infrastructure.
https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/2092622803312771321

13) Kollyfornia has a major problem with teachers sexually harassing students (one in ten!).
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6045594-mcmahon-education-department-teacher-misconduct/

14) Ever wonder what the fight about the White House ballroom is really all about? Trump’s “pet projects” are under construction. But what is really under construction is Trump’s restoration of the very idea of American greatness and (see below) real beauty. And DemoKKKrat leftist Leninist slock-blobbers hate it because they love UGLY.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/legacy-under-construction-trumps-pet-projects-in-the-nations-capital/

IN AI NEWS

15) META (”Meta” means death in Hebrew) has reached a stunning $18 billion social-media-addiction settlement with multiple states. I do not deny such addiction, but this is just another dodge for non-parents to, well, not parent.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/tech/meta-agrees-to-pay-18-billion-in-social-media-addiction-settlements-what-to-know-6079928

16) South Korea is facing an AI-related chip stock crash.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/i-thought-it-would-rise-forever-worlds-craziest-stock-market-suddenly-faces

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

17) Courts thought they had President Trump in a box with his VISA programs. First he announced a plan to revoke 200,000 VISAs, but a court weighed in.
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/24/trump-visas-asylum-seekers-revoke

So instead the State Department just suspended ALL VISAs. There ya go, ya evil bucketspuckers. When, and if, the VISA program restarts, each VISA will carry a $100,000 fee.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-proposes-new-six-figure-fee-for-h1-b-visas-a0da2d01

IN CULTURAL NEWS

18) More evidence that college degrees are becoming less valuable.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/27/us-news/benefits-of-college-degrees-shrinking-for-20-somethings-as-salary-premiums-plummet-and-unemployment-climbs/

19) Ok, this is huge. First, as I have reported earlier, a cultural shift is under way.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/bright/a-classical-music-resurgence-5635945
Just one example, the Nielson ratings for a NC classical station showed it was #1 in liberal Charlotte, and music historian Ted Gioia traced the shift back to the China Virus days when women were home with their kids (shock!) and listened to classical music, whereupon the kiddos liked it. Classical music, which couldn’t even get in the top 10 a few years ago, is now the sixth most listened to music in America. The number of people saying they would like to attend a philharmonic orchestra performance in person has risen from 79% in 2018 to 84%. Classical music viewing on youtube has soared 90%. The violin channel-—the freakin’ violin channel-—has seen a sharp uptick. (That has to be up there with the maracas and glockenspiel channel). Vinyl records have been growing at an 11% a year rate for a while now. (And to think I literally gave away my gigantic collection including such amazing groups as “Bloodrock” and “Captain Beyond”!) But it’s more than music.
It appears that Gen Zers and others are now tuning into the older 1960s television shows we loved Yahoo Entertainment cited “Gilmour Girls,” “M*A*S*H*,” “I Love Lucy,” and others as heading the nostalgia wave, as Gen Zers ditch current programming.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmmpiemV-Pc

20) That brings me to this incredible podcast by Hilary Layne on beauty and the attempt to oppress everyone in modern society with ugliness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
It’s not just hideous architecture, but also the entire woke uglified attempt to make all characters in film and television equally unappealing and certainly plain and homely. She talks fast so you have to listen fast, but this is one of the most important podcasts you will hear.

21) This is the quietest nuclear explosion in history, as a Nebraska court will decide if compulsory public education is unconstitutional.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/25/nebraska-lawsuit-claims-public-schools-are-unconstitutional/
There is precedent for the plaintiffs. Homeschoolers, start your engines. Oh, and what aspect of public schooling is at the center of this suit? Transoidism and sexual indoctrination in public schools.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/going-home-tuesday-august-25-2026

IN TRANSOID NEWS

22) HHS says there were up to 5,500 transoid surgeries performed on minors. And every one of those “performers” should have certain body parts removed, preferably tongues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlswDVdnqU

23) The WNLesbianBA had a transoid player in the league for years, making the banning of Enos Kantor Freedom and Royce White problematic.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/wnba-had-trans-player-league-years-so-why/
Of course, no one brings up “Brittany” Grenier (Butch?) By the way, do you want to know another reason the WNLBA really hates Sophie Cunningham? Not only is she a good white player, but she is pretty and ALWAYS smiling. This runs counter to the disgruntled, perpetually angry oppressed tribal Amish.

24) Among all the other problems the DemoKKKrats have, they cannot break free of the transoid agenda says DemoKKKrat Doug Schoen.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/doug-schoen-democrats-cannot-break-free-far-lefts-transgender-demands

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

25) Trump’s new executive order is placing small nuke reactors on military bases for additional energy.
https://x.com/mkratsios47/status/2092782012075581620

26) Big problems for the anti-data center movement, as it is creating large numbers of blue collar jobs.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/blue-collar-jobs-are-the-new-flashpoint-in-data-center-fight-aaca5b7e

27) A Ross, TX solar farm went up in flames.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/x-post-ross-fires-torch-massive-solar
As David Blackmon notes, we expect the solar industry to say at any time that the system performed as expected. Well, as if he and I expected.

28) The US is rapidly outpacing the Euros in the search for rare earth minerals.
https://www.ft.com/content/c6220205-ee40-4b71-95c0-d53399a17cd1?

29) The number of Americans applying for jobless claims fell to “historic lows”.
https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/number-americans-applying-jobless-aid-slips-203000-layoffs-136001077

30) The amount households owe in liabilities is at the lowest level since the 1960s.
https://x.com/RyanDetrick/status/2092603080227336469

31) Micron chip company is moving forward with a staggering $50 billion factory in Boise, ID providing up to 17,000 jobs.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2090837797460427097

32) Shades of The Jungle as Trump focuses on the meat packing monopoly.
https://x.com/kate_p45/status/2093352043574390996

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

33) Nepal is still reeling from a massive mudslide/flash flood caused, researchers now think, by a glacier wall breaking off, which killed 100 with another 300 missing. Truly the video of this is terrifying. People could run, but not hide.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/terrifying-video-captures-day-after-tomorrow-swallowing-entire-china-nepal-border

34) Not good. The Russkies are warning Mediocre Britain and Failng France not to ship missiles to Ukraine and hints that nuke responses could be the result.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moscow-warns-it-could-target-british-military-facilities-unprecedented-statement
These Euro morons need to get smart, quick, fast, and in a hurry. Trump dispatched CIA director John Radcliffe to Moscow to calm things, and announced that Putin had given assurances he wouldn’t expand the war. But you know what Lenin said, “Promises are like Pie Crusts, Made to be Broken.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-air-force-c-17-makes-mysterious-visit-moscow

35) The idiot Iranian goatmunchers have unintentionally triggered a massive investment in pipelines and ports that don’t involve them.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/pipelines-ports-iran-war-spurs-gulf-infrastructure-investment-2026-08-28/
And I still say Trump needs to rename the Strait of Hormuz the “Strait of MAGA.” Oh, and the Iran so-called “war” (which isn’t even at the level of a police action) has cost the ChiComs an additional $35 billion in inflated energy costs. https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/fun-and-pains-with-billions

Meanwhile, oil flows through the Strait of MAGA have returned already to 2/3 of pre-police action levels.
https://x.com/business/status/2093198202631520529

36) The founder of Evergrande, the ChiCom real estate company that witnessed a crash, was sentenced to life in prison for causing “social harm.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/china/evergrande-founder-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-by-chinese-regime-6077358
I’d like to see some of that in the U.S. Are you listening, Billybob Gates?

37) The U.S. is close to signing a massive deal with Venezuela for more oil.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/5-big-energy-stories-8282026-trump
Within a year, the U.S. should be awash in energy, with no other nation even close. David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of energy, calls it a “legacy defining moment” for President Trump. Meanwhile, the idiot Canuckistanis have forced Trump to impose 50% tariffs on cars and trucks coming from the northern ChiCom ally.https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-announces-new-50-percent-tariffs-on-canadian-autos-steel-6078847

38) Germany’s version of MAGA, AfD, is making big gains across the nation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/citizens-want-political-turnaround-afd-now-polls-43-across-eastern-germany

39) Some 81 more gang members have been arrested in a Puerto Rico drug sting.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-announces-81-alleged-gang-members-indicted-puerto-rico-drug-trafficking-takedown

40) The world’s youngest reigning monarch died at age 34 in Uganda.https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/world-news/worlds-youngest-reigning-monarch-rukidi-iv-dies-at-34/

41) The Euros hit Uber with a $1 billion fine for illegal data sharing.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/uber-hit-with-nearly-1-billion-fine-in-europe-6078827

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

42) In my absence-—and on the heels of Hayden Panatierre’s untimely death, we witnessed the passing of two more true stars. First and foremost, singer/actress/philanthropist Dolly Parton died unexpectedly at age 80, She admitted she had let her own health go to care for her ailing husband, who died two years ago. Parton was larger than life (in a lot of ways.) Here is an excellent column on just a handful of her amazing gifts back to her neighborhood, state, and arts.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2092335371656769732
When the word “authentic” is batted around like a pickleball, Dolly was it. Asked if she had “become a joke,” she said, the joke is on everyone else. “I know exactly what I’m doing.” She also quipped-—in response to her rhinestone-adorned clothing-—that “It costs a lot to look this cheap.” The jokes make themselves, and Dolly would have laughed right along with them: arriving at the Pearly Gates, Dolly says to Saint Peter, “Peter, my eyes are up here.” RIP, Dolly. Then we had actor Tim Curry, also dead at 80. He had a stroke in 2012 that left him in a wheelchair, but before that he was a legend in his villain role in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” as the front-desk guy in “Home Alone 2,” and as the best Cardinal Richelieu ever in Disney’s remake of “The Three Musketeers.” No one smarmed like TC.

43) Speaking of culture change, Kendall Jenner is dating . . . a white man?https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16082351/Kendall-Jenner-Jacob-Elordi-concerns.html

44) The Supes are hearing a motion brought by IA and MT to allow the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger to proceed.
https://heritagereview.com/iowa-and-montana-ask-supreme-court-to-shut-down-californias-antitrust-challenge-to-paramount-warner-bros-merger/

45) Magic Mountain/Six Flags in Kollyfornia had to shut down its X2 roller coaster after a string of serious injuries, including two women who went to the hospital with brain damage.
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16086929/rollercoaster-brain-damage-Six-Flags.html

IN MEDICAL NEWS

46) The latest attempt by the DemoKKKrat Terror Party, particularly the chowdermagnet PA gov Josh Shapiro, to cause panic-—this time with a “measles epidemic”-—fell flat as a coroner in his own state said measles did not cause the death of a baby.https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/measles-did-not-cause-death-of-baby-in-pennsylvania-coroner-says-6080623

47) Jeff Childers shows how the CDC rigged the vax side-effects reports in a way to exclude all but the side effects they supplied, and cleverly left off the ones most people experienced.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/nonserious-thursday-august-27-2026
There were no boxes provided for the main killers, heart attacks and nervous system disorders. Those were to be put in an open box (not a check list) but the CDC only included their own check list of boxes. When a researcher looked at these “open” boxes, he found that one person in 50 reported long-term chronic symptoms. (I don’t know what they did with the people who died and couldn’t respond at all). Initially the CDC said supplying court-ordered data would take 59 years, but, under the gun (or, better, gavel) they did it in just a couple of years. Here’s the real kicker: as early as 2005 the CDC warned that the reporting system was “housed” with the same outfit promoting the use of vaccines. Sorta like Ariana Grande being “housed” in the same room with the anorexia-bulimia studies department.

48) The (real) Amish are threatening to leave NY as a result of former governor Nipplepin Venthoarder (Andrew Cuomo)’s vax mandate.https://dailycaller.com/2026/08/27/amish-threatening-leave-new-york-vaccine-mandates-scotus-case/

AND FINALLY . . .

49) Part of Hilary Layne’s argument discussed earlier that standards of beauty revolve around order and that all elements of order are under attack. See this story of a WI parent who tripped a 9-year-old running for a touchdown.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/wisconsin-parent-cited-for-tripping-football-player-9-who-was-running-for-touchdown/

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