Quickly, AJ has some new posts which are multiply interesting. Mention is posted now. If any additional posting happens here, it would be tomorrow.

Readers may wish to front-run any new Crabgrass posting about AJ content.

The link to do that: https://www.aljazeera.com/ 

Particularly, AJ posts an EXPLAINER about the U.S. hitting the $40 trillion debt figure. 

While yet to read it and other content, that EXPLAINER link is given to goad Crabgrass readers to seek it out.

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Sometimes you search and find a new site that seems both impressive and sound. This post is about that.

 Many organizations list their board and staff. Not the case here, so a qualified shout-out.

https://couragefordemocracy.com/ 

https://citizensimpeachment.com/ 

Allied efforts. Web searching for news about Doug Chapin and his Dem candidacy in my Minnesota district, among returns was: https://couragefordemocracy.com/candidate/doug-chapin/   

The quality of the Chapin bio published there was striking. Causing this post. They should post their peoples identity, staff and board. That said, the links stand as they do.

 

"Freedom's just another word for money running things ...". That's what Rhoades Scholar Kris Kristofferson wrote and Janis sang, the line from Me and Bobby McGee? Yes/No?

 Remember that Reagan said stand in fear, when the man says, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you?" Weigh that Harry Niska is saying, "I'm in the government and I'm there to help you."

Intrepid. Repeatedly saying things to the microphone - for you. For your Freedom. 

Fighting to help you; your values. It's a contest. As if the legislature is Fight Club. Cut taxes and spend. What then? The man changes suits and ties and microphones, to be in the government to help you.

The ever prudent fight against the Dragon. We slay the Dragon. Dragons - The Harder they Come!

https://www.harryniska.com/ 

 

His website didn't really mention dragons. That's editorial content. Nonetheless -  

Tune time. In honor of actual Republican will toward "values." And, yes, Harry is only a local man, not even in Congress like Emmer, who's now House party whip. Shepherding Partywide cut tax, then spend priorities to the floor and whipping the troops to action.

This link

And I am not making this Partywide gross mismanagement story up. It's on your backs. Not letting go. The reporting is fresh.

A reach? Harry's fault? Only indirectly. That's true. HOWEVER - Harry, and Emmer even more, coattail on the White House big ego spender man who's largely doubled that trouble since his first inauguration. 

Facts are facts and coattails are only so reliable, then truth enters the scene and it becomes, "What coattails?"

Again -- a reach? Go figure. 

Luigi Mangione is still interesting news, as pundits and others judge him, now that he's pled before a judge.

Luigi Mangione fangirl ‘reporter’ lashes out at Brian Thompson’s widow with vile comments, social media posts

By

Shane Galvin

Published Aug. 15, 2026

The widow is a multimillionaire, given that her spouse the year of his death had multimillion compensation for making a claims section of that firm's insurance business a profit center, by deny, etc.

It's not the way risk shifting for a fee is supposed to behave. It's vile, instead.

 

A fault some may have noticed without this mention is that Crabgrass too often picks up notice of "an item" a day or two later than others. Sometimes that is bad. Other times it's fortuitous. Natalie news, has gotten through.

Fortuitous. Fortuiousity, if there is such a word. Natalie Harp. Seems she's a story.

And - no need to reinvent the wheel, because of EmptyWheel -

Natalie Harp Is the Unsupervised Gatekeeper to the Man with the Nuclear Buttons

It is done there so well that an attempt at posting here would be an insult. Be warned, however, the comment thread there is somewhat unkind to the pair, Trump and Harp. 

Yet cause is there to find within that item useful links, thought, and critique. Go for it.

(Just think. Had Crabgrass diligently tried a post earlier, lassitude would have gone unrewarded.)

Fortuitous is when merely having to tout a fine posting, and give the link, takes minutes. 

 

Boundary Waters in the News.

 Every Minnesotan likely knows that our Boundary Waters Wilderness is the most visited National Park in the Nation; unique in ways too vast to describe. Research it if you are a reader who cares.

Two items - and please give each your attention, here and here. 

There also is this. 

 

 

Just saying. Thick as thives. And decidedly on the Donald J. Trump credibility bandwagon of "America is Back! No more endless war."

 

https://www.facebook.com/Niska4MN/posts/for-many-years-congressman-tom-emmer-has-been-fighting-for-our-conservative-valu/121395477142069/ 

Bombastically, Niska is the lesser politician. Jen is quiet too. Then, Emmer is his fumbling self. 

Politically, they are "family." 

Trump is their glue. Their first cause. Their ebb and flow. 

Their 2026 downfall. You can watch that as it happens.

Hitch your wagon to whoever, but take what you get when dumb war goes sour. When bombast fails. When Epstein will not go away and "Boys in girls lockerooms" fails to chase him.

When their management of the economy really really sucks. When Bibi is Bibi. When gas costs too much. When you see a hundred bucks buying too little at the check-out counter. And medical bankruptcy is the fate of your neighbor. Or your fate tomorrow. 

When paycheck to paycheck does not cut it. And will not, absent big change.

Vote smart. Or more of the same. Call out falsehood. Truth is as simple as, "Back up your manufactured  $9billion-in-fraud fantasy claim, or stfu." 

Nine billion is a lump to prove. So - prove it down to the last dollar. Or stfu. Truth is that simple.