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• "Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least hear of brave knights.” C.S. Lewis

• Uploading clips to individual channel. https://www.youtube.com/@robertbarnes5175/videos

• https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/8142257/official-picks-monday-august-17-2026

• A Florida endorsement. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/8142200/to-my-fellow-floridian-voters-re-the-governor-s-race-and-candidate-paul-renner-as-you-know-tom

• How military supply chain broke down for basic foodstuffs. https://sonar21.com/the-tail-that-couldnt-keep-up-how-the-us-navy-ran-its-own-sailors-short-on-food-and-soap/

• AI not really doing math. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

• Left reconsiders woke. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/woke-1-crazy-aoc-progressives-hong.html

• Putin’s objective in Ukraine. https://chandragupta.substack.com/p/putins-wager-on-time-what-three-centuries

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• “The Democratic Party and the Republican Party were just like the old patent medicine drummer that used to come around our country.  He had two bottles of medicine. He’d play a banjo and he’d sell two bottles of medicine. One of those bottles of medicine was called High Popalorum and another one of those bottles of medicine was called Low Popahirum. Finally somebody around there said is there any difference in these bottles of medicines? ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘considerable. They’re both good but they’re different,’ he said. That High Popalorum is made from the bark off the tree that we take from the top down. And that Low Popahirum is made from the bark that we take from the root up.' And the only difference that I have found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership was that one of ’em was skinning you from the ankle up and the other from the ear down — when I got to Congress.” Huey Long. 

• Substack piece. https://substack.com/@robertbarnes270050/note/p-210634498
• Dialogue Works 
  
• Mario Nawfal/Brandon Weichert 
  
• Daniel Davis 
• Stanislav 

• https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/8135903/official-picks-friday-august-14-2026

• Amen! https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/8135801/title

• New mRna vaccine problems. https://substack.com/@stopthoseshots/note/c-314287932

• Public sentiment goes negative after war restart. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/umich-sentiment-slumps-august-war-re-escalated-inflation-fears-tick

• Problems deferring to expertise. https://www.commonplace.org/p/oliver-traldi-with-all-due-respect

• Iran war not winnable. https://professorrobertpape.substack.com/p/why-israel-cannot-win-the-iran-war

• Harvard DOJ suit dismissed. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/stearns-ruling-harvard-justice-department.pdf

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• “When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.” Zeena Schreck. 

• Substack piece. https://substack.com/@robertbarnes270050/note/p-210634498
• Dialogue Works 
  
• Mario Nawfal/Brandon Weichert 
  
• Daniel Davis 

• https://sportspicks.locals.com/post/8133619/official-picks-thursday-august-13-2026

• Good book recommendation. https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/post/8131930/if-you-or-anyone-you-know-is-on-psychiatric-drugs-i-highly-recommend-this-book-robert-whitaker

• Media complicity in Covid coverup. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/08/12/ron_johnson_media_is_equally_culpable_in_the_covid_vaccine_lies_to_the_public.html

• Gulf disruptions through 2027. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-now-expects-iran-war-oil-supply-disruptions-last-through-end-2027

• Morale attrition on US ships. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/11/multiple-uss-abraham-lincoln-sailors-have-tried-to-go-overboard-amid-extended-deployment-families-say/

• False intel from Israel scared Trump into fake assassination fears. https://www.timesofisrael.com/cia-reportedly-doubted-israeli-intel-on-iranian-threat-that-led-trump-to-swap-planes/

• Trump sued over early access to Truth posts. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/the-intercept-lawsuit-trump-truth-api.pdf