THEY’RE PROBABLY HIDING FROM DRONES:

BREAKING: Saudi Arabia has reportedly asked Pakistan to repay a USD 6.3 billion loan after Pakistan failed to honor the bilateral defense pact, under which an attack on one is considered an attack on both. Saudi officials are reportedly unable to reach Pakistan’s PM & army chief. pic.twitter.com/0Q4cD5FE6N

— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 20, 2026

INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK?

People don’t want to be punished for success.

It is not wrong to want to preserve your wealth. pic.twitter.com/csDO9bNtj7

— PNW Conservative (@PNWConservative) March 19, 2026

Full story here.

Meanwhile, in California: Billionaires Tax Supporters Up in California By Nearly 2-to-1, Poll Shows.

And California’s exodus has already begun.

FASTER, PLEASE: Pentagon Eyes Second B-21 Production Line.

The U.S. military struck a $4.5 billion deal last month to increase the rate of production on its new B-21 bomber. Now officials are considering whether they will open up an entire second production line to go even faster in constructing the sixth-generation stealth Raider.

Adm. Richard Correll, head of U.S. Strategic Command, told lawmakers March 17 that his command still believes the Air Force needs to increase its planned B-21 fleet to 145 airplanes—a figure his predecessor Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton endorsed last March. A second production line could be a way to reach that goal.

“There are, of course, investments that have been made to increase the production rate and to potentially open a second production line,” Correll told the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces. “That decision has yet to be made, but clearly the B-21 represents a really significant capability both from a conventional and a nuclear perspective.”

The current Air Force program of record specifies a minimum of 100 B-21s, to be built by Northrop Grumman at its Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The planes are needed to replace aging B-1 Lancer and B-2 Spirit bombers in the 2030s.

Aside from Bidenflation and COVID lockdown-related delays, the Raider program is progressing remarkably well for modern, large procurement effort.

But if the B-21 is to do double deterrence duty against Russia and China, conventionally and the in nuclear role, we likely need 300 of them.

Related:

What's China doing with nukes?

An opinion piece in The Washington Post argues that growing evidence of China’s secret nuclear testing and rapid arsenal expansion should force the United States to reassess its strategic posture. The article points to U.S. intelligence claims that… pic.twitter.com/0jrykjiVHI

— JP Lindsley | Journalist (@JPLindsley) March 20, 2026

21ST CENTURY WARFARE:

What a time to be alive https://t.co/mlar47msrq

— Scott Kominers (@skominers) March 19, 2026

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL: Saudi Arabia threatens strikes on Iran.

Saudi Arabia has threatened to strike back at Iran after attacks on oil and gas sites across the Gulf caused prices to surge across the globe.

Prince Faisal bin Farhan, the Saudi foreign minister, warned on Thursday night that patience with Tehran was running out after an oil refinery was hit and eight Iranian ballistic missiles targeted Riyadh.

“This pressure from Iran will backfire politically and morally and certainly we reserve the right to take military actions if deemed necessary,” he said.

Related:

SO IS AMERICA: Pete Hegseth Is Having a Good War.

NAILED IT:

The Left is a parasitic Borg that loots the public treasury on behalf of an army of public and NGO employees who exacerbate the problems they purport to address at an ever burgeoning price tag. There is no effective countervailing force anywhere in Blue America. https://t.co/z0bjOW0Qbu

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 20, 2026

SUPER EASY:

To ensure Iran doesn’t get nukes
To debilitate its long range missiles
To destroy its navy
To disable it from supporting terrorism

This has been answered for weeks, for whatever reason, you just don’t like the answer. https://t.co/LxjbymahDl

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) March 20, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE CAPTAIN OF THE SOMALI PIRATES:

NEXT!

🚨 Big night on the eve of Nowruz, as multiple senior Islamic Republic commanders have been eliminated.

❌ Ali Mohammad Naini, IRGC spokesperson
❌ Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Basij intelligence chief
❌ Mehdi Gharish, aerospace forces commander
❌ Kavous Dehrood, special forces… pic.twitter.com/82IS0YHoaT

— The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 (@TheIranWatcher) March 20, 2026

Busy night.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Apple 2025 MacBook Air 15-inch Laptop with M4 chip. #CommissionEarned

ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: There’s Something Weird Going on in Ukraine.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

🚨 Pamela Whitten is the president of Indiana University. Her yearly salary is $900,000, with an annual performance bonus of $175,000.

The university's "Muslim Philanthropy Initiative" hosted several events for a phony "charity" that was shoving money into the hands of Hamas.… https://t.co/jv2b9kx1SA pic.twitter.com/LfcxE4e7Vp

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) March 19, 2026

EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT SO FEW PLAN FOR THE FO:

Dear Kathy Hochul,

Thanks to some kind and benevolent conservatives, I was able to learn what a computer is and type this out to you. I had to resist the urge to stop at a liquor store while sitting and learning, but I made it.

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you… https://t.co/rrmN3lgebw

— Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 (@ZeekArkham) March 19, 2026

More:

Anyway, back in 2022, you made comments where you urged conservatives to leave New York and go to Florida. We did. We took our money with us as well, because that’s how those things work. Now you want us back? Nah…

See, you’re in the “FO” stage of “FAFO.” It’s pretty glorious to behold. Good luck with all your social justice programs without the capital to fund them.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Lee Zeldin.

Heh.

NASTY: Iranian cluster munitions pose additional challenge for Israel’s air defenses.

Iran has launched dozens of missiles with cluster munition warheads ​at Israel since the start of the war, posing a challenge for Israel’s missile defense shield as they need to be ‌hit before they split and disperse into smaller explosives.

Israel failed to intercept one of the cluster missiles overnight, and its small bomblets scattered into civilian areas in Tel Aviv. A couple in their 70s was killed, and one of Tel Aviv’s main train stations suffered damage.

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters that the couple ​was killed in their apartment by a single, cluster munition bomblet.

“This cluster bomb was fired by the Iranian regime towards a ​center of mass population, firing dozens of rockets towards the civilians, deliberately targeting civilians,” he said. “This is a ⁠war crime by the Iranian regime.”

Cluster munitions have their uses, but not like that.

TO BE HONEST, THE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ON THE BENCH IS LOOKING IFFY THESE DAYS: Congress moves to scrutinize AI use in federal court.

REDUNDANCY AND INVENTORY LOOK LIKE INEFFICIENCIES… UNTIL YOU NEED THEM:

All of this⬇️ https://t.co/DDui24l1I9

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) March 20, 2026

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO MEMORY HOLE AN INCONVENIENT HISTORIC LEFTIST ICON:

The @nytimes is being lavished with praise by the virtue-signaling brigade, but there are very basic problems with their Cesar Chavez story…

-The “evidence” doesn’t come close to the threshold for such a devastating claim, especially against a man who has been dead for 33 yrs

-We don’t know for sure that the 2 children who are now claimed to be his, via 2 “rapey” encounters, are biologically his, partly because his accuser had 4 kids with his BROTHER, which the NYTimes somehow left out of the story (along with the fact that she had at least 11 children with at least 4 men)

-We somehow don’t even know the names of the two kids that were allegedly fathered by Cesar -The NYTimes ignored the numerous very positive recent public statements by Dolores Huerta about Cesar, including a YouTube video created during the #MeToo panic where she praised him for his protection of women against sexual harassment

Read the whole thing.

Earlier: Why Cesar Chavez Suddenly Became Politically Inconvenient to the Left.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: The ‘Holy Month’ of Ramadan Is Ending, and Here’s the Death Toll.

FROM JESSICA SCHLENKER:  Excessively Attentive.

Elizabeth Bennet harboured few expectations for her trip to Kent. Primarily, she was to see her dear friend Charlotte, which necessarily entailed tolerating the odious Mr. Collins. Perhaps, if she were truly fortunate, she might even gain an introduction to the great Lady Catherine — whether she wished it or not. She promised to fill her letters home to her father with faithful recountings of any absurdities thus encountered; he almost promised to write back.

But when a revelation prompts Mr. Bennet to arrive in person, Elizabeth is drawn into the center of a long-buried family mystery. A single portrait holds the key, and the truth it unlocks threatens to upend everything she understands about her past and her expectations for her future.

Excessively Attentive is a Regency-set reimagining of Pride and Prejudice that remains faithful to Jane Austen’s wit, social precision, and moral insight. Thoughtful, character-driven, and richly grounded in period voice, this novel asks what it means to belong — not by birth alone, but by character, courage, and choice.

OR WORSE. LEFTIES WILL EXCUSE AND PROTECT ANYTHING UNTIL SUDDENLY THEY WON’T.

JOEL! That’s it! I was wondering why this stuff was coming up more than 20 years after Chavez died and you have hit on it: EPSTEIN! All the talk about the Epstein scandal stirred this up! https://t.co/IJYzcA7Nz3

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) March 18, 2026

BEWARE:  Utilities Efforts Would Undermine President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge.

YES:  Rama Duwaji Is A Jew-Hating, Lover Of Terrorists.

TAKING OFFENSE IS THEIR WAY OF GOING ON OFFENSE – IT’S WEAPONIZING VICTIMIZATION:  If Muslims are desperate to take offence, why disappoint them?

THE IDEA IS TO BURY COMPLAINTS, NOT ADDRESS THEM (CAN’T LET PEOPLE REALIZE THEIR AREN’T ALONE):  BBC’s ludicrous defence of its self-serving complaints system.