Rising, 08/05/26
Source: The Hill
“Socialist Francesca Hong wants to cancel Thanksgiving?” (08/05/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
The Cuban Communist Threat Redux
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The communist threat from Cuba has returned with a vengeance. According to a Washington Post article entitled ‘State Dept. Again Deems Cuba a Threat Amid Talk of U.S. Push for Regime Change,’ the Trump administration recently issued an official report ‘alleging that a multi-decade Cuban influence campaign in the United States has had ‘remarkable success’ in infiltrating ‘the highest reaches of the U.S. government,’ backing ‘left-wing terrorism on American soil’ and turning ‘America against itself.’’ Yikes! The Reds are coming to get us … again! Is it time to send the troops back into Vietnam to prevent the dominoes from falling to the commies? Is the international communist conspiracy still centered in Moscow? What about the terrorists? And the Muslims? And the drug dealers? And the illegal immigrants? Should we put those on the back burner?” (08/05/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/08/05/the-cuban-communist-threat-redux/
MI: Trump-Endorsed Candidate Loses to Rival Who Stopped Campaigning
Source: Newsweek
“Congressional candidate Amir Hassan, whom President Donald Trump endorsed last month, appears headed for defeat in the Republican primary for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District, as he trails rival Thomas J. Smith, who suspended his campaign and endorsed another candidate less than three weeks before Election Day. With 99 percent of votes counted at the time of writing, according to Associated Press estimates, Smith led the three-way primary with 50.4 percent of the vote, compared with Hassan’s 33.2 percent and Al Lemmo’s 16.4 percent. Smith held a lead of more than 10,600 votes, larger than the estimated number of ballots left to count, meaning Hassan cannot catch him if the remaining-vote estimate is accurate.” (08/05/26)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-endorsed-michigan-candidate-lose-rival-12285591
The Daily, 08/05/26
Source: New York Times
“Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S.” (08/05/26)
Political Theater, 08/05/26
Source: Roll Call
“Roll Call Editor in Chief Jason Dick and 535 Editor in Chief Brody Mullins discuss major cryptocurrency legislation in the 119th Congress with CQ Roll Call Financial Services Staff Writer Mark Schoeff Jr. for the Roll Call/535 Policy Podcast Series.” (08/05/26)
https://chrt.fm/track/D3F8DG/traffic.megaphone.fm/FISCAL5958289487.mp3
What Went Wrong
Source: Law & Liberty
by David Lewis Schaefer
“The wave of anti-Semitic violence, threats, and harassment that swept US campuses immediately after the barbaric Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, should have constituted a wake-up call to all Americans. It revealed the cowardly character of the country’s academic leaders, especially those directing our most prestigious universities. Over 1,200 Israeli civilians were murdered; another 250 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza; no attack of this scale had been perpetrated against Jews since the Holocaust. Yet, even as Israeli authorities began to respond, American campuses were filled with demonstrators denouncing Israel as a ‘genocidal’ state, calling to ‘Globalize the Intifada’ (that is, the waves of Islamist terror that struck Israel, killing thousands of civilians over two decades ago).” [editor’s note: How many Palestinian civilians have been murdered, both before and after that single day, by Israeli forces? As Ayn Rand would say, “blank out” – TLK] (08/05/26)
Anthropic’s Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
Source: CNBC
“Anthropic’s Mythos model created fake online identities as it looked to pressure humans into approving malicious code updates to an open source project, marking yet another cyber incident carried out by a frontier AI system. The incident happened during a cyber evaluation where the U.K.-based AI Security Institute (AISI), a research body, had removed safeguards, disabled some safety filters, and deliberately given the models Internet access. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol was also involved in other cybersecurity incidents during the evaluation. It comes after a series of cyber breaches carried out by models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI in recent weeks.” (08/05/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/anthropic-mythos-openai-security-breaches.html
Socialists Are Trying To Take Hold of the Democratic Party — and They’re Winning
Source: Reason
“The democratic socialists taking over the Democratic Party often say they just want affordable healthcare. They actually want to end America’s constitutional system as we know it.” (08/05/26)
The Vanishing Art of Presence
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“Many studies show how valuable telemedicine is, especially in underserved areas and critical care settings where specialists are scarce. I welcome these innovations and use many of them daily. I am convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) will become one of the most important tools doctors have ever had. Recent reviews also suggest that AI will help doctors make decisions, not replace them. Still, no matter how advanced our tools get, they should help us do our jobs better, not change what our jobs are about.” (08/05/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-vanishing-art-of-presence/
Making men more feminist will prevent human extinction
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“Not getting married and not having kids has never been a more universally available or attractive option for women than it is today. Men either need to make marriage and childbearing more attractive for women or be ready to use more state violence against women. Men can either increase their contribution to the household domestic labor and care work or force women at gunpoint into marrying them and having their kids.” (08/05/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/making-men-more-feminist-will-prevent