WOEING: Inside the secret struggles of the Air Force’s T-7 Red Hawk. “An internal Air Force presentation, dated August 2025 and viewed by Breaking Defense, says that for the first several years those aircraft will come with a ‘serious’ airworthiness risk, stemming from what the document calls ‘non-compliance’ on the part of contractor Boeing to obtain necessary information on the training jet.”

More:

Among this investigation’s findings:

The first 82 T-7 aircraft are projected to fly with a “serious” airworthiness risk.

Sources familiar with the program are concerned that attempts to get the T-7 to the fleet faster could increase risk for junior pilots.

The Air Force has assessed sustainment of the aircraft as “high risk.”

Internal Air Force documents say Boeing’s failure to provide certain data on the aircraft amounts to “non-compliance” on the part of the company.

The plane currently cannot fly in the rain, and the program has struggled with a ground-based simulator.

Air Force and Boeing officials are mulling a plan to change how the government buys the aircraft’s engines, at an “additional” taxpayer cost of up to $1.5 billion, which could come in exchange for technical data Boeing would provide on the company’s 747-8i jumbo jet.

Two sources who spoke with Breaking Defense said the Red Hawk shows promise, and believe officials are dedicated to safety. But they raised concern about the aircraft’s speed of development.

Speed? The trainer has been in development since 2016.

ALEX BERENSON: Anti-competitive hospital practices cost American families up to $2,500 a year.. “Don’t take it from me. The number is a (conservative) federal estimate. Much of the extra cash goes to executives like Steven Corwin, who made $26 million in 2024 running a ‘nonprofit’ hospital chain.”

Nonprofits need to be sharply cut back, if not eliminated. Nonprofit salaries should be capped to match Congressional salaries.

LAST PERSON OUT OF CALIFORNIA, PLEASE TURN THE ECO-FRIENDLY LIGHTBULB OFF: Next California exodus has been triggered as brokers are flooded with calls: Experts warn.

NO MERCY FOR INSURRECTIONISTS!

Ah, democrats in congress are publicly expressing support for a group of domestic terrorists who tried to assassinate a cop to free illegal aliens.

But remember, you’re a dangerous extremist if you get loud at a school board meeting. https://t.co/WJCYzIHkeR

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) June 23, 2026

Antifa losing their shit at the sentences handed down today. I pray this is just the beginning, and many dozens end up with 100-year sentences. pic.twitter.com/Ju2u4DTElk

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) June 23, 2026

They’re used to living in a culture of impunity. That’s over.

EVERYTHING IS TRUMP’S FAULT. THE END. Why the Radical Left’s War on Democratic Incumbents Is Suddenly Trump’s Fault.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Strength training linked to lower risk of death, research finds. “According to a study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, people who performed 90 to 120 minutes of strength training exercises each week had a 13% lower risk of death compared to those who did not participate in strength training. Researchers also found those participants had a 19% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 27% lower risk of dying from neurological conditions.”

SOUNDS INTERESTING:  Leonardo da Vinci: An art director, a painter, and a man whose life epitomized the uncertainty of existence.

SOCIALISTS CAN WIN >15% TURNOUT ELECTIONS:  New York primaries 2026 live updates: Firebrand NYC socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier slams incumbent Rep. Espaillat in victory speech.

HIS ‘ACHIEVEMENTS’ WERE THE RUINATION OF HIS NATION:  Delusional to the end: Starmer’s resignation speech proved why he had to go.

BUT HE’LL ‘FIX’ THE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT BECOMING MINORITIES IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY:  Open borders Burnham won’t fix broken Britain.

IT MAKES STEALING A NATIONAL ELECTION NEEDLESSLY DIFFICULT:  Hillary Clinton’s Latest Remarks on the Electoral College Are Not Surprising. Get Over It, Lady.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME WAY OF CHECKING CITIZENSHIP STATUS OF NEW HIRES:  Illegal Immigrant Busted After Using Uber Gig to Kidnap, Assault Passenger.

AMERICA’S TRADE PARTNERS ABUSING AN AGREEMENT? INCONCEIVABLE!  Canada and Mexico Put on Blast by Nonprofit for ‘Abusing’ Major Trade Agreement.

IT CAN’T BE OVERSTATED:  Apparently the British government is contemplating banning the harvesting of peat because digging it up releases carbon and the fascists running things in the UK have a goal of being “net zero carbon emissions” by 2050. Which will result in the destruction of the Scotch whisky industry. The horror.

X-cancel.

I THINK CHICAGO HAS BIGGER PROBLEMS THAN THAT:  Chicago’s Latest Emergency Is A Word Nobody Can Define: Transfemicide.

THIS IS UTTERLY RIDICULOUS:  Reparations Cartel: African and Caribbean Leaders Target U.S. and Europe’s Taxpayers.

UM…. SOUNDS LIKE GEARING UP FOR REAL WAR:  Just A Point, Here.

GOOD. ABOUT TIME:  Antifa Terrorists Receive 30 to 100 Year Sentences for Attack on Texas ICE Facility.

EUROPE AND AMERICA ARE MUTUALLY BLIND. BUT THEIR SOFTWARE IS ALSO DIFFERENT:  Of Classes And Open Doors.

WHILE I PREFER A VOLUNTARY MILITARY, EVERY CHOICE HAS CONSEQUENCES:  When the US switched to the All-Volunteer Force in 1973.

AMERICA DOESN’T SEE WELL INTO WHAT THE BRITS ARE DOING AND THEY’RE UTTERLY BLIND TO WHAT WE’RE DOING:  Why Don’t British Men Do Something?  … except, apparently, in Northern Ireland?

Even under the autopen, we were never as silent and cowed as they are publicly. OTOH we do have the constitutional defenses, and never got as hard-repressed.  We’re not where they are. We could get there, in a few more cheated elections (hello, California) but we’re not there yet. They have a heck of a battle to come back. I know they’re trying. They’re doing more than we see. But it is their fight.

THE LEFT HAS ILLUSIONS OF BRILLIANCE BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS PARROTED BACK WHAT THEIR TEACHERS SAID:  Progressive intellectual arrogance.

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