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The WNBA exists because men and women are different.
— Snarknado ⚓️ 🇺🇸 (@ZannSuz) August 3, 2026
That’s the entire reason the league was created. Now you’re calling people bigots for noticing the same biological reality that made the league necessary in the first place.
Peak self-own. pic.twitter.com/Ebcqs5oB4K
Ed: If women could compete against men, there'd be no need for a WNBA in the first place. They would already play in the NBA, where the salaries are far more lucrative. The NBA does not exclude women because of sexism; their exclusion is a natural outcome of their biological disadvantage to males. If men compete against women in the league, the W is meaningless. The whole issue is idiocy, fed by nihilists who want to ignore reality in favor of All Deh Feelz.
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John Hinderaker at Power Line: For a sports organization like the Women’s National Basketball Association to come out in favor of allowing men (“trans women”) to play in their league is the height of perversity. If men could play in the WNBA, there soon would be no women left and no purpose to the league. And yet, multiple WNBA coaches and others associated with the league have come out in favor of letting men play. I can think of no reason for this other than blind adherence to left-wing dogma.
The controversy reached a climax of sorts yesterday in Minneapolis, where the Indiana Fever played the Minnesota Lynx. Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has come out against allowing men in women’s sports competitions, which has made her persona non grata on the Left. There were demonstrations and counter-demonstrations before the game, which was attended by pro-woman activist Riley Gaines ...
The controversy continued throughout the game and thereafter. Gaines brought a small pro-Sophie sign that complied with Target Center regulations, and there were hundreds of other signs in evidence, but a Target Center or Lynx staffer tried unsuccessfully to make her stop displaying it.
Ed: That's a very Minnesota way to approach free speech ... which is why I'm happy to be in Texas. The Lynx stink on ice, of course, and the rest of the league isn't much better. Their intent to shut down fans who appreciate standout players is just another form of politicized perversity in a league that practically drowns itself in it.
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That lady can have a sign saying she doesn't like Caitlyn Clark & Sophie Cunningham but Riley & I can't have a sign saying thank you to Sophie (@Riley_Gaines_ was told she had to put the sign down just after we grabbed this pic).
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) August 3, 2026
These are the "hate has no home here" people. pic.twitter.com/vgTpwaGMIE
Ed: It's the same state where the governor claims that socialism is just neighborliness while manning a snitch line for over two years to get neighbors to inform on each other over COVID pandemic violations. It's a state in the middle of serious degradation, and where the culture has turned authoritarian.
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Axios: Until Super Tuesday — that's March 7, 2028 — or well beyond, Democrats will be leaderless, and likely split between rising socialist energy and more traditional, establishment liberalism.
DNC Chair Ken Martin will likely get ousted and leave behind a hot financial mess and cashless dumpster fire.
Hakeem Jeffries has a legit shot at rising to speaker, but will lack a big enough majority as well as the instincts and ambition to lead beyond the House.
Chuck Schumer's future is fragile. If he doesn't win the majority, he'll get challenged for the top job. Then, he'll be preoccupied with AOC running for his Senate seat and ending his career. Even if she goes for the White House instead, his future at home and as party leader is in doubt.
Ed: This is a common structural issue for parties out of power, although perhaps a little unfamiliar these days, but it's definitely worse for Democrats in this moment. While Joe Biden was president*, it was very clear that Donald Trump remained the leader of the Republican Party. When Trump was president in his first term, Nancy Pelosi was the clear power at the top of the opposition. Schumer's not cut out for that role, though, and Jeffries is a joke. As Jim VandeHei concludes, the de facto leader of the Democrats at the moment isn't even a Democrat – Bernie Sanders – and he's enabling the DSA takeover of the party.
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President Trump weighs in on the Michigan Democratic primary for US Senate
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 3, 2026
“You have a communist vs a socialist. It looks like the communist is leading.” pic.twitter.com/jjYZpgJUpN
Ed: Based on the last polls in the Michigan primary, El-Sayed is headed for an easy win over Stevens tomorrow. And based on at least one poll in the past week, that's good news for Mike Rogers, the GOP's certain nominee, who does better against the communist than the socialist. Stay tuned tomorrow; we'll have a live-results post up for Michigan's primary, as well as Missouri's.
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NY Mag: Aside from just smearing Democrats with a broad red brush, Republicans are, of course, seizing on the recent progressive surge in Democratic primaries to depict them as hurtling to the far left. They are grossly exaggerating the surge, of course (so far, just three members of the Democratic Socialists of America have won congressional primaries), and then totally misstating the views of the progressive candidates who are winning. ...
Are there DSA members (not candidates, but rank-and-file members) who are Marxist, in the sense of viewing political and economic life through the lens of class struggle? Yes, there are, much as there are rank-and-file members of the GOP who by any conventional definition are proto-fascist. That Marxists define the Democratic Party as a whole is ludicrous. And by the way, these allegedly terrifying progressives are winning primaries by appealing to voters in free elections, which was not a tactic favored by Bolsheviks.
Just conflating socialism with communism, as Republicans are doing right now, is at best lazy and at worst a lie. Democratic socialists (or to use a parallel term, Social Democrats) currently govern the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Spain, and Brazil and have in the recent past governed many other democratic countries. These are not communist, Bolshevik, or Marxist countries.
Ed: Not communist yet, but they are all moving in that direction. Also, Daniel Ortega won elections in Nicaragua and no longer sees the need for them. The Protection Racket Media loved to make socialism-communism distinctions with Ortega. Hugo Chavez got elected, and then seized the election process to make sure communists stayed in power. NY Mag isn't that naive; socialists and communists are all Marxists, and even Marx and Engels didn't draw much of a distinction between socialism and communism, except in terms of time.
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A decade of socialist growth across America.@LawrenceBJones3 shows how socialism got its way onto ballots across the nation over the last 10 years, highlighted by a recent Fox News poll that shows 48% of Democrats feel the party has betrayed them to help fuel socialism's rise.… pic.twitter.com/eF4znKSO2x
— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 3, 2026
Ed: They needed to go back to 2007-8, actually. The 2018 marker is especially important. That's when the DSA model of targeting complacent Dem incumbents in deep-blue districts first emerged. AOC proved the model's effectiveness, and only Pelosi's threat to punish DSA allies for trying it on other Dem incumbents kept it in check. Jeffries is too weak to impose that kind of discipline.
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Politico: When Queens Borough President Donovan Richards accused the Democratic Socialists of America of perpetuating “white supremacy” earlier this month, it marked a rare instance of a well-known local Democrat taking direct, withering aim at the group that propelled Mayor Zohran Mamdani into City Hall.
Since Mamdani’s ascension there, local elected Democrats have been hard pressed to publicly blast him and his hard-left base. The mayor’s approval ratings remain strong and the DSA has emerged as a serious political force in the city. So Richards’ X post — which was referencing the DSA’s majority white membership nationally — hinted at a potential turning point.
His attack also points to a more broadly felt symptom: Growing discontent with Mamdani from Democratic politicians in the city’s outer boroughs.
Days after Richards’ online lament, more anti-Mamdani sentiment erupted in the Bronx, where City Councilmember Oswald Feliz accused the mayor of giving his community “crumbs” by not pairing a bus lane project in his district with enough infrastructure upgrades in surrounding areas. Like Richards, Feliz made a reference to race, albeit a more subtle one.
Ed: I'd feel a lot better about the future of the Democrats if all sides didn't resort to the race card to settle arguments. It's another reminder that even in the non-DSA Democrat Party, intersectionality still rules. However, the shoe may fit in this case ...
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Oh, the irony is too much … pic.twitter.com/k0NgRxMoLT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 3, 2026
Ed: Agreed. I wrote about it here, but I'm glad to see Musk highlighting it too.
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Ipsos poll | released 7/24-7/31
— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) August 2, 2026
(Democrats sampled)
Would you prefer a Democrat or a Democratic Socialist
🟦Democrat: 57%
🌹Democratic Socialist: 38%
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(Crosstabs)
🟦No College: Democrat +9
🌹College: Dem Socialist +9
🌹Age 18-34: Dem Socialist +9
🌹Age 35-54: Dem Socialist… pic.twitter.com/ixBrfCH4op
🌹Age 35-54: Dem Socialist +9
🟦Age 55+: Democrat +19
🌹White: Dem Socialist +1
🟦Non-White: Democrat +1
Ed: The link to the full poll is here. There is a slight race issue here, but not as much as one might think from DSA rallies.
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Larissa Phillips at The Free Press: My reasons are mundane and apolitical. First, I live on a working farm. At the very least, we should have a rifle to shoot predators or put injured animals out of their misery. But we’ve been putting off buying one for years because, despite all my reasoning, owning a gun, being near a gun, even talking about getting a gun, still just feels . . . wrong.
But recently, a second reason for wanting one has arisen. I’m worried about security.
In the last six months, we’ve lost two of our three dogs to natural causes. One was a 100-pound livestock guardian who patrolled our farm like an elite security force. He was looking for foxes and coyotes, but anyone who didn’t belong on our property would have been treated like a code-red alert. The other was a large, goofy pit-bull mix who loved everyone, but his massive chest and boxy head identified him as a breed with a dangerous reputation. These two were just the latest in a series of sweet but formidable-looking dogs I’ve had in the last 30 years. I didn’t get any of them for personal protection, but they always made me feel safe when I was home alone, whether I was letting an unfamiliar man into my Brooklyn house to read the electric meter, or, upstate, opening the door to random strangers knocking to offer landscaping services. “I’ll hold my dogs,” I’d say, as they emitted a ferocious racket behind me.
With just one docile dog remaining, my rural home feels nerve-rackingly vulnerable, and a gun is starting to feel like a good idea. I wouldn’t be the first American to come to this conclusion. Nearly a third of the country owns guns, and around 88 percent of this cohort name personal safety as a reason for having one.
Ed: This is a really interesting essay. I've had pistols for years, and I don't live in a rural area (although not far from one). I'm still more concerned about security than I have been for a lot of reasons, and I am choosing to keep myself prepared for self-defense.
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“Naked dressing” started as a look for publicity-seeking celebrities and fashion designers. Now it is migrating from the runways and red carpets to everyday shoppers—and it’s not exactly going smoothly. 🔗 https://t.co/km8Je10flA pic.twitter.com/LQRPiTuHJk
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 3, 2026
Ed: I don't want to hear another damned word about the "male gaze."
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This is your reminder to get married and have kids. ❤️ https://t.co/2Mlm5Yd3Vo
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) August 3, 2026
Ed: Getting pretty dusty in here at the end of the day ...
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Saturday's lyric: "Take On Me" by A-Ha. Everyone knows the hit version, but I just discovered this "unplugged" version from a few years ago. It makes a beautiful ballad, too. I'll put the hit version underneath as well.
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