October 15, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:

Settler-colonialism, straight up.

Posted at 11:28 am by Stephen Green

BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: The five financially healthiest states are all dominated at all levels of their governments by Republicans. Can you guess which party dominates in the five financially sickest states?

Posted at 10:52 am by Mark Tapscott

YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED IF HE HADN’T: Did Biden Subsidize Importing Jihadis? “The evil that the Biden Administration did in their headless tenure continues to live on. As part of the Biden’s Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, terrorist-linked CAIR was handed money to resettle Afghans in America, and several Texas congressmen are asking why.”

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT:

The facts are straightforward:

On February 26, 2022 two days after the invasion Ukraine’s Mykhailo Fedorov posted on X asking Elon for Starlink. The same day Musk activated the service. Terminals arrived within days. SpaceX donated thousands (including 3,667 via the USAID partnership) and covered service costs for months while others were still talking. Ukrainian commanders have repeatedly said the front would have collapsed without it.

Elon Musk stated publicly: “No matter how much I disagree with the Ukraine policy, Starlink will never turn off its terminals. We would never do such a thing or use it as a bargaining chip.”

Europe has relied for years on American private technology instead of building its own alternatives. It is easy to criticize the man who actually acted when it mattered most.

Indeed.

Regulate, penalize, and criticize is what Europe does now instead of innovating.

Posted at 10:25 am by Stephen Green

THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES:

Posted at 9:23 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hope Enough Americans Are Sufficiently Afraid of Communism. “The commie threat from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was easier to dismiss when we were just talking about AOC and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It was a New York problem. Abdul El-Sayed has made a name for himself in America’s heartland. If he wins, that’s a game changer that is filled with rolling dark clouds.”

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

OUT NATO ALLY: Turkish authorities seize control of popular pro-opposition Halk TV after police raid headquarters, stop live broadcasts.

Halk TV said on X that authorities assigned a trustee, or administrator, to take over the outlet, while news reports said the raid was linked to a criminal investigation into owner Cafer Mahiroğlu, whose other assets were seized as well.

Mahiroğlu, who lives abroad, said in a video message on X that seven of his relatives in Turkey were in police custody, and that the accusations against him were false.

“Seizing Halk TV strikes at the heart of press freedom in Turkey where the vast majority of news outlets are pro-government. Halk TV is one of the very few remaining broadcasters that criticize the government and this action is a devastating blow to the Turkish people’s right to freedom of information and expression,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Control of Halk TV must immediately be returned to its staff and this deeply alarming and damaging crackdown on journalism must end.”

Turkey is witnessing an intense and sustained crackdown on independent and pro-opposition media, with dozens of journalists arrested or detained so far this year.

Stay tuned — just not on Halk.

Posted at 8:52 am by Stephen Green

FROM SEDUCTIVE AI TO REDUCTIVE AI:

My next AI project is going to look at those secondary effects.

Posted at 8:41 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE WAR ON NORMALCY (CONT’D):

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

BUT MOST PEOPLE PUSHING AI ARE AFRAID OF THE TRUTH.

Posted at 8:34 am by Glenn Reynolds

FASTER, PLEASE:

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

C’MON, PENNSYLVANIA:

Presler has moved mountains getting people registered, but he can’t vote in your place.

Posted at 8:21 am by Stephen Green

MEDIA’S JANITOR “UNEXPECTEDLY” QUIET:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The ‘Cornell 7’ Fallout Is Infantilized Women And Villainized Men

Another quote comes from Doe’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, who I’m half-convinced actually hates his client, given how absurd his arguments made on her behalf are. He told the Times that it was incumbent upon literally anyone but Doe to have ensured she never left the Tri Delta sorority house that night. “Somebody should have said: ‘Hey, no, you’re intoxicated. You’re not, you shouldn’t be going outside. It’s not safe,’” he said. “And that failed.” Doe reportedly said in investigation proceedings after the incident that she hid her intoxication from an authority figure at the sorority house that night. “I didn’t want to tell her I was drunk because she’s a mandated reporter,” she said, according to the Times.

So if she was hiding it, how is anyone supposed to stop her? And if they had tried and she insisted that she be let go to leave the house, then what? A sorority house isn’t a prison. (Though maybe it should be.) The only logical conclusion is that women, at least young ones, can’t be trusted to take care of themselves and therefore shouldn’t be permitted to attend college without a chaperone.

Make housemothers great again?

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green