ICYMI: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

WELL, GOOD: 2029 Dodge Copperhead Looks Like it Could Put the Company Back in the Supercar Fight.

SHOOTING NEWS: Not That You Needed Another Reason to Love Dolly Parton, But… “A .38 pistol. I have a permit for it in Nashville. I just carry it for protection. I feel safer when I’ve got it. I just don’t like the idea of knowin’ I’m totally helpless. I’m always scared in a big city and New York was totally foreign to us.”

BUT PLENTY OF CHUTZPAH: Obama Figures Chastising Trump on Iran Have Zero Self-Awareness.

[It] seems that Washington has fought Tehran to a stalemate. We may have hammered their military, but their willingness to fight an asymmetric war that depletes our munitions and squeezes global energy cannot be ignored.

The stalemate can still be broken, however. The president can heap more financial pressure on the regime and maintain the maritime blockade. Our military also continues to ferry vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, easing the energy crunch.

Iran’s currency, the rial, just hit another historic low — trading now at 2 million to a single U.S. dollar. The regime’s inability to pay salaries or provide basic services could portend domestic upheaval. The president must now do more to support the Iranian people, who are pro-America and truly loathe their regime. They have been brutalized and slaughtered, but they have not given up. Intelligence, financial support, secure communications, and arms are what they need.

The president now understands that, just as the 2015 nuclear deal defined Obama’s foreign policy, the war with the regime will define his. He was right to conclude, “This situation has been going on for 47 years and should have been handled long before I arrived in office.” Seen in this light, Team Obama’s efforts to snipe him should be ignored. Whereas they never derailed Iran’s nuclear and regional ambitions, Donald Trump still can.

Read the whole thing.

OH MY: Police Raid Ilhan Omar’s Son’s Home, Arrest Roommate With 10 Convictions.

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Milk Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned

DARK MONEY: Exposing the Gun Control Industry’s Financiers: The Joyce Foundation. “Gun Rights Insights pulls back the curtain to show that the gun control agenda is nothing more than an astroturf agenda living off the funding and the backing of a few billionaires and progressive activist foundations flooding the field with waves of cash, up to $400 million annually.”

HMM: Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations. “Boston Scientific said the cyberattack has affected its ability to ship and process orders, but has not said whether the disruption extends to customers with medical devices and implants.”

‘MURICA:

Guess which country is not a signatory to the Paris Declaration of 1856 that banned privateers!

You only get one guess. https://t.co/Ia6sM28Mrc

— Demiurgent🥃🖤 (@tr0g) August 26, 2026

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More on privateers here.

ISN’T THAT KIND OF WHERE HE STARTED? A Desperate El-Sayed Campaign Is Now Tapping the Old Soviet Propaganda Playbook.

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS:

CNN forced to apologize to Dolly Parton's family for using photo of Vegas impersonator in covering icon's death https://t.co/L6M20jULjY pic.twitter.com/QwYd0ulhCC

— New York Post (@nypost) August 27, 2026

SAME DAY DELIVERY: all free clear Laundry Detergent Pacs for Sensitive Skin. #CommisisonEarned

THEN DON’T VOTE (D): Majority of voters concerned with rise of socialism, communism.

LET’S DO THIS:

Prize courts? For real, prize courts? https://t.co/fJF1raUVm0 pic.twitter.com/BZ4iRGIpjC

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) August 27, 2026

“Legally uncertain,” really? Congress granting letters of marque are authorized by the Constitution, and sea prizes go back centuries further.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: British secondhand booksellers see mystery bulk buys of obscure titles, suspect AI.

FOR ONCE, IT ISN’T ABOUT JOE BIDEN: The Horrible Truth About the World’s Worst Vegetable.

ANCESTORS: Researchers identify traces of two ‘ghost’ ancestors in modern human DNA.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is ‘How to Rob a Bank’ Really ‘Hasan Piker: The Movie?’

Luigi Mangione stands accused of killing a healthcare CEO by shooting him from behind. The murder stained the nation’s soul, in part, because so many Americans rallied behind the alleged assassin.

They even made a musical about him.

Now, Hollywood is doing more than evoking that horrific crime. It’s tapping into a DSA-style assault on capitalism via “How to Rob a Bank.”

Hollywood seems determined not to learn.

GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Los Angeles Socialist Nithya Raman Brags About Getting Crosswalk Done, There’s Just ONE Big Problem.

So wait wait wait…

You are celebrating for

**checks notes**

…painting a CRACKED ROAD????????

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 27, 2026

Fresh paint (that took almost a year to finally apply) on crumbling infrastructure is the perfect metaphor for L.A. in the 21st century.

CRUEL BUT FAIR:

HILARIOUS 😂

Woman MOCKS Lindsay Clancy supporters with extreme accuracy‼️

This is the funniest most spot on 🎯 video you will see all day.

Mockery is the most effective way to battle back against the insanity. pic.twitter.com/ac4RmvP76p

— Cinema Shogun (@CinemaShogun) August 26, 2026

WELL, GOOD: FDA approves new pancreatic cancer drug that could extend patients’ lives.

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa, HAMAS, and the IRGC Have Some Unsavory Friends in Common. “Rose City Antifa and its fellow travelers and hangers-on, for years, have attempted to create a hacking collective in Portland to infiltrate local tech companies and hijack those companies that do national security-level work. It’s unclear if they succeeded, but the news from the State Department about working with the Italy-based hackers’ collective shows that the group cobbled together the technological superstructure to allow these anti-Western anarchists to operate and organize while remaining undetected.”

LIMITED TIME DEAL: medicube Toner Pads Zero Pore Pad 2.0 for Exfoliation and Pore Care. #CommissionEarned

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “What I Wish I’d Known About a Hysterectomy”: A Patient’s Experience with an Expert Doctor’s Insight.

NEWS YOU PROBABLY CAN’T USE: Polynesian Wayfinding: How these sailors navigated the open Pacific with no compass or GPS. “Piailug was born in 1932 and became a master navigator, or palu, by the time he was 18. He practiced the art of wayfinding for nearly 60 years until shortly before his death in 2010. Having become concerned that the old knowledge would be lost, Pialiug worked with the Polynesian Voyaging Society to recreate lost techniques, passing on his wisdom to sailors like Thompson.”

Vikings navigated to America in similar fashion, though I haven’t heard that anyone is practicing their methods now.