September 9, 2026

HE’S RIGHT, AND THE PHOTO FROM SCLAW IS JUST THE TOPPER:

Posted at 5:47 pm by Stephen Green

WHAT A MESS: Conflicting court rulings leave Missouri’s congressional map in limbo.

In one, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an order issued by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative that could lead to voters rejecting the newly drawn district lines moves forward. Kavanaugh handles emergency requests that arise from Missouri.

But soon after, a federal judge in Missouri ruled in favor of two GOP congressional candidates who argue that the new map, which was in place for the August primaries, must be used in November in order to avoid federal constitutional violations. That case could also quickly face U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny with time running out for the map to be finalized. The state’s deadline to finalize ballots was 5 p.m local time, and first ballots are set to go out Sept. 19.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, both Republicans, said on X Tuesday evening that the redrawn map would be used for the November election.

Or maybe not.

Posted at 4:52 pm by Stephen Green

MOST OF MY TEACHERS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UP WERE MEN, AND ALL THE BEST ONES WERE…:

…and I wish I’d recognized then how great a benefit that was.

Posted at 4:36 pm by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Posted at 4:23 pm by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: St. Louis Sheriff’s Office reaches settlement over firing of white, older employees.

EEOC investigated the Sheriff’s Office and found that former Sheriff Alfred Montgomery used his position to terminate nearly a dozen white employees and two black employees for reasons other than their job performance. Before he was sworn in, Montgomery publicly announced that he “could not wait to get rid of these white officers” and “top-heavy” employees, a reference to older workers, the EEOC found.

Montgomery also allegedly referred to the white employees he terminated as a “racist gang.” After firing the white officers, Montgomery allegedly told his former deputy that “he needed to fire a black guy” to buck a lawsuit for discrimination against white employees.

That — and a bunch of other stuff — doesn’t seem to have worked out for him.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green

GOOD LORD:

More:

4. A decision to go around was made whilst on runway.
5. Above decision was reversed and sealed their fate.

These facts paint a very confusing picture of what was happening on this flight deck. Every approach we brief a plan A, which is obviously to land and stop. But we also set some very clear bottom lines, those that must be met to assure a safe landing. These are decided at a period of low workload, often some distance from the airfield. The time to set these is not when you’re working hard to get the jet down. This is where your capacity is limited and having these bottom lines is key to a safe outcome.

Setting these empowers either pilot to call a go around if these aren’t met. The pilot monitoring should never be thinking “what’s going on now?”

KC-10 Driver added, with just the right amount of understatement, “That’s a really troubling series of events.”

Posted at 3:34 pm by Stephen Green

AMERICA’S TEAM’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

THESE ARE HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS — WE JUST LIVE IN THEM:

Don’t forget to get your gestating parent something nice for Gestating Parent Day.

Posted at 2:32 pm by Stephen Green

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL SHIP. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE LOOMING ICEBERG: Alexandra Pechman Came of Age in Early Aughts New York — Her First Feature Magazine Tackles the Time with a Light Touch.

When lockdown hit in March 2020, journalist-turned-filmmaker Alexandra Pechman couldn’t help but get a little nostalgic for the good old days. Who didn’t?

“We couldn’t really look forward, so a lot of people were looking back. We were all inside and everyone was feeling so nostalgic and reading old journals and diaries and talking to people from the past,” Pechman told IndieWire in her first long-form interview for her first feature film, “Magazine.” “I was also looking back at what my career had been, and I kept going back to that kind of cusp-y time at the beginning of my career in magazines. It was the last gasp of the Old World, and so it was that feeling of this complicated nostalgia of, ‘Oh, I really miss that time, but also that time was not great for me or people like me, and why do I miss that?’”

The world of “Magazine” was pulled from Pechman’s own early career in journalism, notably pre-#MeToo. As a young writer in the late aughts, she published stories in Vogue, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and was a staffer at The Paris Review, Aperture, and W magazine. By 2019, Pechman had sold her first script and joined the WGA. And she was trying to get comfy with the idea that, as her filmmaking career was on the rise, she was going to have to say goodbye to journalism.

Her big farewell: a delightfully winsome, extremely smart first feature, captures the specifics of the time (it’s set in 2011) while hinting at what very much needs to change in the years to come. The film stars Lily McInerny as starry-eyed poet Nora, who alights on a summer internship at the lauded lit mag Platen, where she meets fellow interns, played by Lukita Maxwell, Ruby Cruz, and Daniel Zolghadri, plus an alluring older editor, played by Joshuah Melnick.

As John Podhoretz tweets:

In 2011, when I reviewed The September Issue, a cringe-inducing documentary starring Anna Wintour and the staffers of Vogue, I wrote:

It’s a fascinating time capsule of a film, sort of the Titanic or Last Days of Pompeii of the New York magazine industry. And beyond the world of Vogue depicted in the movie itself, of a supremely competent insular liberal Masters of the Universe worldview just before the lights went out on the world’s economy, and elites got what they wanted in the years that followed — good and hard, as Mencken would say. President Obama likes to say that Americans have been pretty soft in recent years; he need only watch this film to see how right he was about his core constituency. When Occupy Wall Street complains of “The One Percent” and their enormous wealth, well, come and see the plutocratic excess inherent in the system.

Still though, forget ‘80s nostalgia. I can understand early 2010s nostalgia among coddled leftists when compared with the autophagy they’re faced with today: “You Better Get Ready for … War”: Socialists Call for “War in the Streets” and the End of Capitalism. “‘The Democrats cannot be reasoned with. They must be destroyed.’ There is little subtlety in the message, [University of California Santa Barbara History Professor Butch Ware] has explained: ‘You cannot call yourself a revolutionary and not be talking about training with weapons.’”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll