NAVAL WARFARE:

The USN's ability to thus far repel the Iranian antiship ballistic missile attack should not conceal the fact that virtually no other European navy could do so to the same degree.

Consider the French Charles de Gaulle. A normal CdG group includes at least one Horizon-class…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 10, 2026

"The rules governing global shipping are breaking down, disrupted by wars and a rapidly growing shadow fleet operating beyond Western oversight, the world's largest maritime nations warned in a rare joint statement Tuesday.

The Consultative Shipping Group (CSG), representing 18…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 10, 2026

THESE PEOPLE ARE AS TRUSTWORTHY AS LORD HAW HAW, AND FOR SIMILAR REASONS:

This is perhaps the dumbest tweet I’ve ever seen.

The United States is using all its levers of national power to crush an enemy of 50 years with the blood of thousands of Americans on its hands. The military campaign has been remarkable in scope and effectiveness – anybody… https://t.co/hj4oYmOsj1

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) September 10, 2026

WAIT! John Fetterman Spoke at the GOP’s Midterm Convention?

THEY’RE BOTH REPULSIVE WEASELS: As We Focus on El-Sayed, Don’t Forget How Awful Talarico Is.

NO THANK YOU: Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments.

Modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, Muse is designed to access a person’s apps across categories like email, calendar, payments, health, shopping and the smart home, Meta said. People choose which apps it connects to and can revoke access at any time.

Each Muse agent runs on its own virtual machine, a cloud-based emulation of a personal computer, which enables it to keep carrying out requests in the background even when a person is not actively using it.

Syncing up with apps containing a person’s real data both increases the agent’s potential usefulness and significantly raises the stakes for safety, both for the people who have entrusted it with their information and for others who may be on the receiving end of agent misbehavior.

Vishal Shah, vice president of AI products at Meta, told Reuters the company had initially delayed the release of the product in April to make it more secure.

But the whole point is to give it access to your files and even your payments. Much as I love my AI tools, I keep them safely inside their sandbox.

SOMEBODY NEVER WATCHED RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: Shocking moment man with sword charges deputy in wild desert confrontation.

ANALYSIS: TRUE: Jarrett Stepman: Grad Schools Are Training Activists, Not Teachers.

Not by accident, but by design.

REMINDER:

The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949, but go on, counselor. https://t.co/iQkeOxWPmo

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 9, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: The Sick, Twisted Conspiracy to Rewrite the Horror — and the Lessons — of 9/11.

A WARNING:

The only reason Michigan is a tossup between the normal republican and the anti-American psychopath is because we imported an entire population that will vote for the anti-American psychopath.

Remember that.

— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) September 9, 2026

It did not happen by accident.

IT’S AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK:

She's right on programming. People don't trust neutrality as it doesn't really exist, but they do trust when you're honest about where you stand. It's authenticity and transparency that people trust. https://t.co/sKx7FRyYgU

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 9, 2026

In 2006, Walter Cronkite told PBS that, “I’m a liberal, but I’m not biased. Seriously. … [ellipses in original — Ed] A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we’re unbiased in our reporting. That’s one of the fundamentals of good journalism. We all have our likes and our dislikes. But … when we’re doing news — when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics — it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.”

In 2019, long after RatherGate ended his career at CBS, Dan Rather was still muttering boilerplate such as, “As a lifetime journalist I can say I can only speak for myself: you do the best you can realizing you’re going to make your mistakes… that’s the test point of trying to stay objective and try to stay unbiased.”

Nobody believes old media claims about “objectivity.” Tell me your worldview so that I can take that into account when you’re presenting me a story.

LIGHTNING DEAL: BLACKDOG Military Dog Shock Collar. #CommissionEarned

DEMOCRATS AND THE VOTERS WHO ENABLE THEM. NEXT QUESTION? California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices—Who’s to Blame?

ALEX BERENSON: Behind door #2, everyone dies: It is time to start taking the risks of AI much more seriously.

AI agents will redefine tasks they are assigned by humans in ways that humans don’t anticipate

AI agents will collude at scale to carry out those tasks

AI agents will lie to the humans who are monitoring what they’re doing

AI companies cannot (or will not) stop these coordinated attacks, even when they are supposed to be taking place under very tightly controlled conditions. . . .

Many people in the industry publicly put the chance that their models will escape human oversight and lead quickly to the extinction of humanity at 10 percent or more. Let’s say the chance is only 1 percent. Even so, we are currently tolerating research that on a probability-weighted basis is killing 80 million people — 1 percent of the current global population.

Actually it’s more than that, since it would be killing all future humans, too.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY TOLD ME. TRUST THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, THEY SAID:

There is something deeply wrong with our scientific establishment.

Fraudulent Cancer Research Papers Increased 10x in Recent Years https://t.co/f79y0Te1Ys

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 9, 2026

KURT SCHLICHTER: Our Biggest Problems Have the Easiest Solutions. “While America under Donald Trump is inarguably doing better in many ways than it has in many years, we still have problems the smart set insists are insoluble. They are not insoluble. They are easy. That is why you are not allowed to talk about them honestly.”

THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY IS OUT FROM BEHIND THE VIP PAYWALL: Let’s Talk 9/11, Then and Now.

ONLY MALE SEXUALITY IS CREEPY. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND OBJECTIFICATION ARE EMPOWERING. Objectification Is Only Wrong When Men Do It: You don’t get to condemn the male gaze and then celebrate the female one. “The internet broke after Carlos Alcaraz took off his shirt following Friday’s U.S. Open match win. SportsCenter posted the crowd’s response — women reached for their phones, and we discovered a remarkable new rule: the sexualization of a young athlete is only offensive when the athlete is female, and the audience is male.”

The policing of sexuality is all about power.

HOW INDEED:  “How Did This Nigerian Chief Make Million From Medicaid?“

LITTLE-HEARD TRUTH ABOUT TOMORROW: Richard Pollock, ever-observant of realities the Mainstream Media either chooses to ignore or simply doesn’t recognize, reminds us that millions of Muslims around the world danced in the streets as thousands of Americans died on 9/11.

ANOTHER SIDE OF GLORIA STEINEM:  I only recently learned that she was big on promoting the panic over “Satanic Ritual Abuse of Children.”  Sigh.

Whenever I start thinking that the world has gone bonkers, I remind myself that it has always been bonkers.  In the 1980s and ’90s, people really thought that day care centers run by grandmothers were full of kinky weirdos who were sexually molesting toddlers in some weird Satanic ritual–sometimes with a little cannibalism thrown in for extra spice.

WHAT’S IN A NAME: President Trump seems to be developing a fetish about renaming things after America: Gulf of America, Lake America, New America, etc. etc. The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold observes that Trump “is attempting to change the longstanding names of geographic entities by executive fiat. This is, at the very least, a very un-conservative thing to do. Conservatism values and seeks to conserve the goodness that human societies organically create over time.”

NOTHING NEW IN THIRD WAY: They call themselves “centrist” and “moderate,” but the latest edition of the Third Way appears incapable of fresh thinking about health care reform because Obamacare is sacrosanct.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

I BELIEVE SO: The Vela Incident: Did an American satellite detect a secret nuclear test in 1979?