July 21, 2026

EPIC FURY: The U.S. Campaign Against Iran Is Moving Inland: This Is No Longer a Coastal War.

As of today, July 20, Iranian media has reported attacks near Khomein and Khondab in Markazi Province, Semnan in northern Iran, the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran, and Tabriz in the northwest, where officials said a military area was struck for the first time during the renewed campaign. Shiraz, home to an IRGC Navy facility damaged earlier this month, was also reported hit again.

CENTCOM also confirmed that the Kehuristan Bridge in Hormozgan Province was rendered unusable. The bridge links Bandar Abbas with western Hormozgan and forms part of one of the province’s main transportation routes.

Roads, bridges and railways are how Iran moves mobile launchers, fuel, ammunition and replacement equipment. Disrupting those routes makes it harder to sustain missile operations, even if launchers survive.

Stay tuned.

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

DEAFENING:

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green

ESCHEW ALL MODALITIES OF COCKSUREDNESS: Morning Joe warns Democrats are doomed to more election failure in 2028 as party continues to embrace ‘extraordinarily loony ideas.’

MS NOW host Joe Scarborough devoted a sizable chunk of Monday’s Morning Joe to warning about the rise of Democratic Socialism within the Democratic Party.

Scarborough, 63, said the party was at risk of alienating voters if the support continues into the next Democratic presidential race.

‘I mean, there have been some extraordinarily loony ideas coming from some of these people that have actually won races and are going to be seated in Congress, most likely,’ the former Florida Republican said.

‘Like, you know, getting rid of prisons, getting rid of cops.’

Scarborough said such policies ‘didn’t work well for Democrats before’ and ‘didn’t work well for American cities, either.’

He warned that years of success seen since were at risk of becoming undone.

‘America is getting safer again, in good part because both parties have come to the conclusion that police officers are a good thing,’ the host proclaimed.

‘Police officers make communities safer, make our children safer, make our schools safer.’

Scarborough admitted that the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization was just ‘one extreme’ of a political spectrum that’s widened on both ends.

‘I guess my question is why the Democratic Party is so ill equipped to deal with those extremes, brush them off, and instead focus on candidates that are mainstream who are going to end up winning most of these primaries.’

Flashback to a pre-Covid February 2020: Why is Anyone Surprised That Chris Matthews Went All Nazi Comparison About Bernie?

Matthews came on after Democratic strategist James Carville went on a diatribe against Sanders, and as the MSNBC host made reference to that, he invoked the historical episode when the Germans overran the Maginot Line and forced France to surrender in the middle of World War II.

“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lies ahead in November. They’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie.”

A week later, Matthews was caught in a putsch, err, pushed out of MSNBC near the end of #MeToo’s reign of terror, but as Glenn wrote at the time, “In 2020, He’s Not Crazy Enough for Them…It’s really because he dissed Bernie. The rest is just window dressing.”

And speaking of crazy!

Exit question: Obama, Where Art Thou? “The day will come when Mr. Obama will have to speak for himself. He’ll have to take up the question posed in the famous labor union anthem, ‘Which Side Are You On?’ I think we know the answer, but it will be instructive to hear it from him.”

UPDATE:

 

Posted at 10:50 am by Ed Driscoll

SKYNET SMILES: Introducing Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft for the Near-Surface Fight. “The advantages that Thunder brings to the battlefield extend beyond its hardware – they are also defined by the centrality of software and autonomy to its performance. Anduril’s core Lattice for Mission Autonomy software delivers the trusted, flight-proven formation behaviors, separation management, and flight logic necessary for Thunder to remain useful, predictable, and safe around crewed aircraft. By translating operator intent into trusted machine-speed route, timing, tasking, and deconfliction decisions, Lattice eliminates the need for pilots to manage Thunder with a stick and rudder, enabling them to focus instead on the most important decisions at hand.”

Full autonomy is coming to the battlespace whether we like it or not.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

HMM: Judge pauses Paramount-Warner merger.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California issued a temporary restraining order barring Paramount from closing the transaction, a corporate tie-up that would unite two movie studios, two streaming platforms and two news organizations under the control of David Ellison, the son of billionaire technology tycoon Larry Ellison.

Martínez-Olguín’s order said the restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days. The judge, who is presiding over the case, scheduled an Aug. 3 hearing on the states’ motion for a preliminary injunction, which would freeze the transaction while the legal process plays out.

The plaintiffs, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, sued to block the merger July 13, arguing in a 38-page complaint that it would “extinguish competition” in Hollywood.

I’m more or less agnostic on the merger, other than it might be the only way for two storied studios to survive outside the Netflix behemoth. But there’s no end of entertainment to be found in California using every means at its disposal to create a more and more hostile business climate.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP:

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green

CDR SALAMANDER: Cuba Libre: The Department of State’s Cuba Report.

Nice to see our foreign policy apparatus standing up to commies instead of supporting them.

Related:

Posted at 9:12 am by Glenn Reynolds

THEY’RE PANICKING:

Of course, that’s probably what happens every time the Mensheviks realize the Bolsheviks are about to slaughter them.

And the Mensheviks never, ever learn.

Posted at 8:50 am by Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Bristol Myers buys Nvidia’s latest AI computing system for drug research.

The drugmaker said it will be the first life sciences company to buy an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD ​based on its Vera Rubin systems. The chipmaker unveiled its Vera Rubin architecture earlier this year as the successor to its current generation of AI computing systems.

Financial terms of the Bristol Myers investment were not disclosed. It builds on a smaller SuperPOD system the drugmaker ‌bought from Nvidia, which is ⁠around two or three generations behind Vera Rubin, BMS executives said in an interview.

Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly investing in AI infrastructure to try ⁠to identify drug targets faster and improve the odds that experimental drugs succeed in clinical trials.

We sure could use some new antibiotics in a hurry.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green

WHAT DECADE ARE WE IN?

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green

WHERE’S OUR MONEY: Open the Books says at least $400 billion in COVID Pandemic relief funds has been stolen by fraudsters, but the federal government has recovered less than 1 percent of it. The actual total lost to fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and other Pandemic relief programs is almost certainly much higher than $400 billion.

Posted at 8:17 am by Mark Tapscott

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 7:52 am by Glenn Reynolds