If I'd known how bad writing books was going to get, I'd have started doing it years earlier.

State Department Issues Worldwide Security Warning as Trump Announces Iran Talks
August 3, 2026

□ [“PM Sánchez Jets Out for Holiday as Ceuta Tries to Deport, Recover Dead Bodies From the Sea"]

He doesn't ask if this looks bad, flying himself away as the land below him is invaded.  He doesn't see any problems that he's needed to fix.  He only needs to show concern for his new people, those who might someday self-identify as "Spaniards."  My first choice is that he's never allowed to return.  Second choice is that he's in jail for life if he does return.  Third choice is he's executed on arrival.  I don't much care which one the island picks but I'd limit it to those three options.

22 members of the EU have demanded an emergency summit to discuss this.  We already know that's not trustworthy, the best chance it has of providing anything helpful is if the elites who attend start fighting each other.  Something that has the leaders yelling 'either they leave the EU or I do!'  That's certainly possible although I doubt the odds are that high.  They just need to plot against native Europeans, something they can all agree on.

There are people on the island who are publicly supporting the invasion.  I'm just looking at an article about a female doing that but I assume there are more.  I don't really know how they can purge their own population of these leftist idiots but we all need that.  This is showing the world that we cannot put up with these people anymore.  

NYPD Reports Hate Crimes Rise Under Mamdani-More Than Half Committed Against Jews
August 3, 2026

□ [“Transgender TV Star Arrested on Child Molestation and Sodomy Charges"]

I keep saying this but it would really help the trans movement if they made a point to tell their own kind 'stop going after kids!'  Calling the cops on those who are going after kids is a good thing, or just killing the abusers on the spot, whatever.  You really want us to believe that transgenders resemble human beings, guess what.  Humans can turn on each other when they're bad.

And then we learn about an NPO named "HiTOPS" [sic] who are very specifically going after children.  In a video, Director of Education Stacy Robustelli even explains their plans to go after kids just reaching puberty and work their way down to kindergarten.  “So we are really intentionally going into younger and younger grades.”  Another one ads that “that’s our, like, real sort of goal would be to remove opt-out class, or like, opt-out policies.”  They don't need your permission to do what they want to you.  How is this NPO getting funding?

This was in a video released by a group called "Gays Against Groomers."  I wouldn't automatically trust them but this is the sort of thing I was talking about.  There are probably some gay people who really don't like how their movement has been perverted and if their name means anything, they're trying to do something about it.  I am still surprised at how quickly the trans movement just exploded into the popular scene and then the bubble popped.

Judge Blocks New York’s Law Prohibiting Federal Officers From Wearing Masks
August 3, 2026

UFC Fighter Allan Nascimento Dies Suddenly of Heart Attack at 34
August 3, 2026

□ [“Trump Confirms Iran Talks Are Back on After Iran Denial and Threats"]

This is all over the place.  Trump says there are talks, Iran says there aren't.  Trump calls Iran's leaders "liars."  The people you're negotiating with are lying to you?  That doesn't give much optimism for the negotiations so why are they continuing?  Or who are they with?  Trump also says that we aren't currently hitting Iran because their neighbors are involved.  Some of this is probably true but there's no way to know what parts.

There's just no sense that anything is going on here.  We don't have troops on the ground and Iran has no functional military left so there's nothing in the way of fighting unless we're sending in air strikes.  There's no reason to think other Middle East nations are sending in troops so all that's left is peace negotiations and whatever economic effects either side can have.  So what are they supposed to be doing now?

We get that Iran is the enemy, we can handle a long-term fight with them, but they're also quite helpless in any real sense of the word.  Why are the mullahs and the IRGC still breathing?  I can support this war but it really does look pointless when there's never any progress and the actual enemy is just there.  Muslims can handle being bombed for a long time.  They also can't be trusted for negotiations and, worst of all, Trump gives no impression that he understands either of those facts, much less has a plan to deal with it.

Independent Journalist Nick Shirley Chased with a Knife. Stoned by Invaders in Ceuta, Spain
August 3, 2026

□ [“Spider-Man Beat All Gunn's DC Movies Combined in One Weekend?!"]

Well, it put the current Marvel and DC slate of movies in their place.  I assume inflation is relevant but this is now the biggest opening weekend in history, having passed Endgame.  DC has wasted all this money on the latest reboot of their movie IPs and they try to claim that there's some popularity, and then they have to deal with this.  Marvel movies have the same problems, somewhat more successful but still going downhill.  Sony owns the Spider-Man movie rights so about all Disney could do was include some requirements and take their share of the profit.

It also kills the notion that people don't see movies anymore after covid.  That may have something to do with it and streaming has become more popular, but if there's a reason for people to see movies, here they are.  There have been other big movies in the last few years but not many.  That's because the movie makers are doing very little that there's an audience for.  There's a reason we just call it the *woke* agenda.  You can see that with Superman no longer saying "Truth, Justice and the American Way."

Now we get to wait for how the next Avengers movie will do.  Nobody's looking forward to it.  It's too expensive to ever make a profit but there's no reason to think it will make the characters popular, or popular again if they were in hit movies years ago.  DC has it even worse, many of the planned James Gunn movies and tv shows have been cancelled, or at least the current production has been shut down.  He's only done two movies and two tv shows that actually came out.  He's been in charge of the franchise in more time than it took to get from Iron Man to Avengers.  He could follow that example but he did this instead.

Denmark Begins Extended Conscription, Prepares for ‘Russian Threat’ and US Designs on Greenland
August 3, 2026