January 28, 2026

REQUIRED READING:

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green

TURNAROUND: Boeing’s quarterly sales jump 57% as CEO says there’s ‘a lot to be optimistic about.’

The company’s airplane deliveries last year were the highest since 2018, helping drive revenue. Boeing brought in $23.9 billion in the last three months of 2025, a 57% increase over the same period in 2024 and topping analysts’ expectations. Cash flow of $400 million was roughly double what Wall Street was expecting.

CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff that the company is making progress and that there’s “a lot to be optimistic about” in 2026.

“At the same time, with progress comes expectations, and our customers and stakeholders are going to expect more from us this year,” he said.
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Boeing delivered 600 airplanes to customers last year, nearly double the number from 2024 and the most since 2018. Ortberg, who came out of retirement to run the manufacturer in 2024, and other executives have said more production increases are on the horizon in the coming months.

Nice.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

CONSTITUENT SERVICES: Boston Police ignored all 57 immigration detainer requests from ICE last year. “ICE says it lodges immigration detainers after officers or agents establish probable cause to believe that a noncitizen is removable under federal immigration law, typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes and when the noncitizen poses a public safety or national security threat.”

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force envisions rolling awards for new RG-XX neighborhood watch satellites.

RG-XX is being designed as the successor to the Space Force’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) constellation originally comprised of six satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 36,000 kilometers in altitude.

The flexibility of the new acquisitional approach is necessary because, for one, McClain said it’s unclear how many RG-XX satellites the Space Force will need.

“The quantity will be based off of a couple of factors,” he said, “the cost of the individual systems that we get, [but also] available funds and the mission need.”

And while RG-XX sats are expected to be more manueverable than GSSAP birds and will be the first Space Force satellites capable of refueling in orbit, McClain said it is not completely clear whether the RG-XX satellites alone will be all that is needed to replace the venerable GSSAP birds, the first of which launched in 2014.

I’m sure they’ll be impressive, but I’m less sure about the “neighborhood watch” branding that sounds less like “Keeping an eye on Chinese shipyards” and more like “HOA busybody.”

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

GOOD LORD:

Naturally, the Complicit Media does what it does best — push false narratives.

Posted at 9:22 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Angry That ICE Is Deporting Their Midterm Voters. “Whenever anyone on the conservative side of the aisle accuses the Democrats of trying to get illegal aliens to the polls to vote, the Dems’ denials are less than convincing. They are no longer even capable of feigning shock and disgust. The attitude has more of a brazen, ‘Yeah, and see what you can do to stop us,’ vibe.”

That’s changing.

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

INDEED:

All they had to do was keep what they were given.

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green

COMPETENCE: Tale of two managements: Trump’s prep and readiness vs. Biden’s ‘no comment.’

In an open letter signed by almost 200 current and former FEMA employees, they stated: “A change in course is necessary to prevent not only another national catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina, but the effective dissolution of FEMA itself and the abandonment of the American people such an event would represent.”

In addition to the rapid approval of emergency declarations, which authorized FEMA to coordinate relief and provide aid for essential activities, in many cases within days of state requests, the Trump administration proactively coordinated with states and pre-positioned supplies (including meals and generators).

By most accounts, the Trump administration’s handling of Fern appears to have been proven effective, with President Trump deploying hundreds of FEMA personnel.

Furthermore, FEMA has established a dedicated resource page for response and recovery, with federal aid flowing for power restoration, debris removal, and protective measures in affected areas.

It wasn’t about the money; it was about leadership.

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

AND I WANT TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST WITHOUT OXYGEN, USING ONLY YOGIC BREATH CONTROL: Tim Walz Wants to Beat the S*!T Out of JD Vance. “Tim Walz can’t decide whether he wants to play the peacemaker or the tough guy. Frankly, he does neither of them well, and he is not smart enough to know how to shut the hell up. Which explains why Minnesota has been such a mess under his ‘leadership.'”

Posted at 8:28 am by Glenn Reynolds

NO MORE COMPROMISE:

Posted at 8:27 am by Stephen Green

YEP. AMNESTY IS OFF THE TABLE, PERIOD.

And give Mickey credit, he’s been hammering on the immigration issue since the ’90s.

Posted at 8:12 am by Glenn Reynolds

I LIKE STEEL: US Steel Surpasses Japan, Boosted by Trump Tariffs.

For the first time in more than a quarter-century, the United States has muscled past Japan in steel production — a symbolic and economic milestone fueled by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime and a surging appetite for steel from America’s booming artificial intelligence buildout, Nikkei Asia reports.

U.S. crude steel output climbed 3.1% in 2025 to 82 million tons, according to the World Steel Association, vaulting the U.S. into third place globally behind only China and India.

It marked the first time since 1999 that American mills outproduced Japan, ending decades of relative decline and signaling a dramatic shift in the global steel landscape.

The revival has Trump’s fingerprints all over it.

Indeed.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green