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August 31, 2026

□ [“Transportation Secretary Duffy:  Emergency Shutdown of 110 CDL Schools Giving Licenses to Drivers Who Failed English Proficiency Tests"]

Another 160 training providers are also being shut down.  It's unclear how many there are in the US.  My internet search says there are 395 school businesses and about 14000 listed on Indeed.  Assuming a "business" is a franchise that operates in many locations, this isn't shutting down a large number of schools.  It's not a huge hit although given the need for truck-drivers, I would think any hit is a big one.

But this is an "emergency shutdown."  This indicates there's a specific reason to hit these schools immediately.  Are these the only schools that license drivers who don't speak English or are the people going through these schools up to something shady?  The trucks could be used to transport illicit material or people.  There are many possible reasons for this so I won't make a guess but I bet the Transportation Department and other federal authorities already know what's going on.

Whether it's Antifa, China, the "new world order" or the modern version of Al Qaida, the enemy does need to use logistics and transportation.  That's obvious, it's how an organization works.  I've been wondering how many people in these fields are working for the enemy and how much has been hit by the Trump administration.  I would like a better picture of the need for these skills but I'm a 92y so that sort of thing is typical for me.  But we may get to see very soon how needy some of these organizations are for transport and logistics.

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□ [“New York Teachers Union Fighting the Mayor It Helped Elect - Mamdani Files Lawsuit to Stop Pay Raise"]

He supported them getting a raise before he took power, now he's opposed to it.  Funny how that works.  He is suing the city council to stop it although he could have just vetoed it.  I doubt it was just a lie to help him take power, he probably really believed in this.  That's something leftists never learn, there are rules and regulations people don't like but they're there for a reason.  They just call it "oppression" and promise to erase it, then everything starts falling apart.

This lines up with thinking that if they say something, it becomes real.  You can argue that it is possible, "pushing a narrative" as the current saying goes, but it would require leadership and recognizing actual ability.  But that would just get you accused of whatever 'ism' the left is ranting about now, it's their technique to destroy the concept of "ability."  And so you're left with people who have to sue each other to avoid keeping the promises they made to gain power instead of actually fixing things.

The teachers union will need to fight him or comply.  You'd expect leftists to obey the master and that's certainly a big possibility but so is turning on their own.  They're paid to teach how bad money is so they're entitled to more money and anyone who disagrees is bad.  This is just the most obvious problem Mamdani is having so there's a lot more going on against him.  You know, one reason to have a smaller government is just to prevent problems like this but that would also be against leftism so the more problems, the better.

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□ [“Washington Post Publishes Classified Pentagon Orders Book During Active Combat With Iran"]

You learn something new every day if you're not careful.  The Orders Book is apparently a collection of 'what's currently going on' for the Secretary of Defense.  Whatever information, diagrams, guidance, he's looking at that to make decisions.  I also learned that high-ranking officers can state their official opinions on the issue at hand, fighting Iran in this case.  Four high-ranking officers expressed disagreement with troops being stationed so long in the Middle East and now the Washington Post has identified them to the world.

How the f*ck did the Post get that information?  This is about as classified as you can get and yet somehow they got it with no problem.  There are probably very few people who get to see the contents of this Orders Book, a few more people who would have access to what these officers contributed.  Two admirals and two generals, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commanders of European, Southern and Indo-Pacific Command.  The leaker, or the spy drone, is probably located in one part of the Pentagon.  Shouldn't be too hard to find.

Reading the Post article is behind a paywall and I'm too lazy to do the work to see who wrote the article - a Post employee named Dan Lamothe promoted it on twitter, he may be the author - but that guy will now be a target.  From what we can see, it's just a stupid move on his part.  He's blowing everything to be able to report that people in the military are allowed to openly disagree.  All to help Iran.

Of course they're proud of this.  Lamothe and the Post have already announced how this was heroic journalism.  They don't mention possessing classified information, which is a crime, or publishing it, which is also a crime.  Hopefully they'll find out very quickly what that really means.  We'll see if their billionaire owner can help them now.

77-Year Old Lionel Richie Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit for the Second Time This Summer
August 31, 2026

□ [“El-Sayed Endorsement Video Looks Like a 'Hostage Tape' — Woman Struggles Through Talking Points as El-Sayed Nudges Her Along"]

It does look disturbing like this black woman clearly doesn't want to be here.  There's no clue who she is or who she's representing in this endorsement, she's just reading what she's told to say.  El-Sayed is nudging her on, like she needs guidance.  The other Minnesota Senator, white woman Mallory McMorrow, is just staring at her in that empathetic way women suggest there might be harsh punishment afterwards.  This is how you'd look at a hostage on tape if you picked her to give marching orders to the other black servants.

They'd better rush to clarify this quickly because it's not going to win over any voters and might repulse a lot more.  They're supposed to be getting Obama to promote them too.  I don't know if he's done that yet but they might have problems there.  This is the 'socialist Muslim movement' he was put in place to establish and it's tearing apart his own party.  So it makes sense that El-Sayed and McMorrow needed to grab someone and push her out in public to make them look good.

We barely see any of it but it's still clear that Democrats are having major internal problems.  AOC is trying to make herself a coherent national figure so she's suddenly started pretending to be moderate.  I doubt she has much to do with it, it's probably the people around her, but she is one of the most prominent DSA advocates.  She shows the problem, insisting that she's just a local DSA member, she's not in the national group.  Never hear her describing the differences from one MAGA group to the next neighborhood over.

So there's a lot of conflict, groups-within-groups and very little of it is made public.  This is another problem with leftism, there needs to be a coherent vision that appeals to a lot of people.  They're opposed to that, it's why they make up so many things to self-identify as, whether "socialist" or "communist" or "transgender."  They need to pretend they're different but they really aren't.  They also really don't like facing other people who act like their mirror-selves.

I'm still not going to be optimistic and insist Democrats will lose big-time in November but there's a lot of evidence to support that.  But I will say I think the Trump administration has been planning for this and so far it seems to be working well.  This is the basics for people who aren't interested in politics, they'll get on with their own lives and let others fight it out.

Obama Judge Rules Possession of AI-Generated Child Pornography Is Legal
August 31, 2026