In 2019 Erin Burnett wanted to make sure that there was no way for Paul Manafort to escape the seriousness of the mortgage fraud charges.

In 2025 it's mortgage fraud, really?

This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/8be4cNK6IF

— MAZE (@mazemoore) August 30, 2025

Photo from the Instagram account of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control.

Following news of CDC director Susan Monarez’s ouster by the Trump administration, Dr. Daskalakis resigned along with three other CDC senior officials.

None of these people went quietly. Susan Monarez first refused to obey her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, on replacing some senior personnel and on vaccine policy, then she refused to accept being fired. Needless to say, she and her key staff members, including Dr. Daskalakis, quickly ran to the media attempting to go over the heads of Secretary Kennedy and President Trump and seek the support of the public.

Supposedly, all of these health professionals have been bravely defending Science against political interference.

Their viewpoint overlooks the important consideration that they are working for a Cabinet officer appointed by a President elected by 77 million Americans and they were elected by nobody.

As to claims of possession of a supposed scientific high ground, well, it seems obvious to a lot of us that Dr. Daskalaskis’s overall judgment and that gentleman’s grasp of Biology are both seriously open to question.

I have not taken the time to look into all the public expressions of Susan Monarez and those other brave martyrs to Science, following in footsteps of Galileo, but I feel comfortable in guessing that a close examination of their opinions and careers would result in my applauding their dismissal.

Britain. https://t.co/vBdmTiQtlx

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 29, 2025

“Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism.’”—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn pic.twitter.com/pn4DQExkVP

— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) August 26, 2025

A 14 year old Scottish girl was arrested for defending herself and a friend? or sister? from the unwelcome advance of a Muslim immigrant in Dundee. The Muslim retaliated for being rebuffed by making a cellphone video as he taunted the girl and then whistling up the police.

Link to story and video.

Admire the pussinalimity of the BBC report.

Harold Nickolson, Vita Sackville-West, Rosamund Grosvenor, Lionel Sackville-West (1913).

Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the State, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or identity card. He could travel abroad or leave his country for ever without a passport or any sort of official permission. He could exchange his money for any other currency without restriction or limit. He could buy goods from any country in the world on the same terms as he bought goods at home. For that matter, a foreigner could spend his life in this country without permit and without informing the police. Unlike the countries of the European continent, the state did not require its citizens to perform military service. An Englishman could enlist, if he chose, in the regular army, the navy, or the territorials. He could also ignore, if he chose, the demands of national defence. Substantial householders were occasionally called on for jury service. Otherwise, only those helped the State who wished to do so. The Englishman paid taxes on a modest scale: . . . less than 8 per cent of the national income. . . . [B]roadly speaking, the State acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.

–A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945 (Volume XV of the Oxford History of England), 1965.

“What goes around…” https://t.co/8KMkyABf0U

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 22, 2025

John Bolton Eludes FBI By Blending Into A Herd Of Walruses https://t.co/DhJ6GWfJ63 via @TheBabylonBee

— David Zincavage (@DZincavage) August 22, 2025

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The man on the left had his home rated at 6 am because he did something wrong. The man on the right had his home raided at 6 am because he didn't. Karma is bitch. pic.twitter.com/V5Ir7yCanR

— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 22, 2025

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The Biden Administration raided the homes of Rudolph Giuliani and former President Donald Trump as well Roger Stone’s. This kind of targeting of political opponents is a standard behavior pattern of corrupt dictatorships.

The Trump Administration indulging in this kind of thing, hopefully, is intended to teach the democrats this inadvisability of entering into this kind of dangerous ground. Let’s hope they learn that what goes around also comes around.

Yes, I know, my Yale classmate John Bolton is not actually an official democrat, but he is clearly a Never Trump fanatic and currently their ally. Presumably, Kash Patel thinks Bolton was leaking classified stuff to the establishment media with the intent of politically damaging Trump. If he’s right, I think that was a pretty low thing for JB to have been doing, and my sympathy is slight. If Bolton is not really guilty, then Patel should be sacked.

In any case, once a few examples have been made and the message has been sent, then a concordat with the enemy should be made to stop this kind of thing permanently and completely.

Fun fact: the Obama Library will hold no books, papers, or presidential documents of any kind. All of it has been digitized and will only be accessible on some computer.

In other words, the entire thing could have been replaced with a USB drive. https://t.co/9pfixB3eE8

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) August 20, 2025

What on earth is all that space for then?

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And the neighbors don’t like it one bit.

Fox News:

Chicago community leaders and longtime residents say the Obama Presidential Center risks washing away the neighborhood’s fabric, warning that proposed luxury developments tied to the project could price out families who have long called the South Side home, according to a report.

They also say the sprawling 19.3-acre site in historic Jackson Park, with its 225-foot-tall concrete museum, has become an eyesore that disrupts the natural landscape and all locals are getting in return for the unsightly structure is soaring rents and higher tax bills.

“This is a monument to one man’s ego,” Steve Cortes, a longtime Chicagoan and former advisor to President Donald Trump, told the Daily Mail. “Look at the Reagan Library. It’s beautiful. This? There are almost no windows. What are they hiding? And this Brutalist cement look in a city known for its incredible architecture.”

RTWT

All the thing needs is a huge Eye of Sauron on top!

39 pounds 2 ounces!

Outdoor Life:

For Australian angler Paul Rahman, fishing all night and casting through the cold is part of the game when hunting for trophy-sized brown trout in New Zealand. At least that’s how Rahman caught his new world-record brown on the South Island this April. The beast of a trout weighed 39 pounds 2 ounces, and it was recently accepted by the International Game Fish Association as the new line-class world record in the 8-pound category.

Rahman caught the record brown from the Ohau Canal in Twizel. It’s part of a unique system of hydropower canals fed by glacial lakes, and most of the canals have salmon farms along them. This combination of cold, oxygenated water and salmon feed drifting in from the farms produces some of the largest trout on the planet.

RTWT

A 34-year-old Branson man, who identified as a 2023 Ford F-250 pickup truck, died Wednesday night after being struck by a semi-truck on Highway 65. The man, known as “Mack,” was reportedly mimicking vehicle movements on the roadway at around 9:15 p.m. when the collision occurred. The semi-truck driver was uninjured, and no charges are expected.

Mack had gained attention for his “trans-vehicle identity,” often wearing truck-themed clothing and full vehicle gear. The Missouri Highway Patrol is investigating and urges witnesses to call their office. A vigil is planned for Saturday.