A MUCH NEEDED DATAREPUBLICAN HELLO:  You pre-emptively blocked me here on 𝕏, so I am forced to make this “Hello” a standalone post. You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

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INDEED:  Delayed Reaction. Islamic Terror Attacks in the United States.

SERIOUSLY?  Two tales of Covid Tyranny, which still exists six years later.

ALL SENSIBLE PEOPLE GET KICKED OUT OF POLITE SOCIETY. BUT CONSIDERING WHERE POLITE SOCIETY HAS GOT US, MAYBE WE SHOULD KICK IT OUT:  If the post below doesn’t get me banned from polite society… this one will.

X.CANCEL.

WE ARE DEFINITELY NOT THE WORLD’S SOCIAL WORKER:  Another Failed State.

INTERESTING:  Meta spent $26.3 million lobbying for “age verification” bills in 45 states. But the bills don’t regulate social media. They regulate your operating system. Someone traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records. Here’s what they found.

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THE MEMES, THE MEMES:  Memeing while the world burns.

THE PRESS DOESN’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE TRUTH, JUST WHAT WORKS FOR THE LEFT IN THE MOMENT:

In 72 hours we went from:

Trump never expected the possibility of Hormuz closing,

To:

Trump was briefed Hormuz could close but riskily did it anyway,

To:

Trump bombed Kharg Island but it likely won’t force Iran to open the Strait

To:

Iran opened the Strait

— Andrew Clark (@AndrewHClark) March 14, 2026

CUBA LIBRÉ!

This is Cuba now. Cubans and Venezuelans are some of the only people on Earth who really truly understand Iranians, and vice versa.

Freedom inspires freedom.

May all our countries be liberated this year. pic.twitter.com/a4wB46FrPr

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) March 14, 2026

Related: The Coming Revolution Down South.

UPDATE:

while new yorkers vote in communists https://t.co/YHx9SHt11W

— Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 (@marcorandazza) March 15, 2026

OPEN THREAD: It’s all for you.

I’M A BIT CONCERNED: How risky is the Artemis 2 astronaut launch to the moon? NASA would rather not say.

It’s being treated as urgent, but the urgency isn’t cold-war necessity. It’s bureaucratic necessity. Artemis is a last gasp effort by NASA and traditional contractors to show that they’re relevant in a SpaceX era.

WELL, GOOD: Breakthrough to Strengthen Bones Could Reverse Osteoporosis.

THEY’VE KNOWN IT FOR YEARS, THEY JUST AREN’T TELLING US: Cats May Hold the Key to Treating Human Cancer.

“PROGRESSIVES” AGAINST PROGRESS:

Karen Bass spent a lot of time in her youthful years joining Democrat Socialist events and training in Cuba. I wonder if she'll be a joining the flotilla?

— DrStock56 (@drstock56) March 14, 2026

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Antifa-Inspired Group Convicted of Terrorism Against ICE.

JOURNOS NEED TO LEARN TO TAKE THEIR Ls (Yes, I’m Talking About You, Acosta):

Can the following reporters from the major cable news networks please confirm you were at today's Pentagon press briefing? Jim @Acosta still doesn't believe you were there.@LMartinezABC (ABC)@Ellee_Watson (CBS)@halbritz (CNN)@JenGriffinFNC (Fox)@JulesJester (MS NOW)… https://t.co/0J2qIcOc3n

— Deputy Press Sec Joel Valdez (@JoelValdezDOW) March 13, 2026

LIEL LEIBOVITZ: ‘One Battle After Another’ Is Irredeemable.

Walking out of One Battle After Another, I realized that the cavalry wasn’t coming. [Paul Thomas] Anderson is just another mindless mediocrity now, thinking first about party lines and only then, if at all, about truth and beauty. It’s all over.

Which, hallelujah, is very good news.

Because if you know anything about the history of Hollywood, you know that great thrusts of creativity and daring come only when the industry drives itself to the brink of extinction. In the late 1950s, for example, terrified by the ascent of TV, studios made a bevy of utterly forgettable spectaculars they hoped would draw people to the theaters. None did. The golden age was over. But slowly, slowly, working in smaller outfits and taking greater risks, a new generation of outsiders started telling the kinds of stories the Old Hollywood would’ve never approved of. Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and their cohorts delivered films that were far more raw and daring and impactful than anything we’d ever seen before, giving American cinema another, brighter golden age.

Now that even the greats have fallen, now that even Paul Thomas Anderson seems interested more in purring for his fellow progressives than in making interesting movies, now that even DiCaprio is relegated to delivering lines about respecting another character’s “they/them” gender pronouns, it should be crystal clear that Hollywood has once again driven itself to total moral, artistic, and creative ruin. How lucky are we: Somewhere out there, I bet, some young punk feels liberated and called to make Hollywood great again.

Hollywood has been here before of course, issuing ridiculous slop when they believed the cultural revolution was nigh that suddenly looks very silly once the dust clears: Mystery Seventies Theater 3000.

DID THEY REALLY SAY THIS? CNN Issues Incredible Statement About Their Horrible Week of False Stories:

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— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) March 13, 2026

Earlier:

The Left is so committed to the position that bad guys are actually good guys and good guys are actually bad guys that multiple major media outlets tried to justify and rationalize the actions of a terrorist who drove a truck full of explosives into a pre-school full of babies.

— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) March 14, 2026

UPDATE:

Understand that Democrats want Iran to win this war.

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 14, 2026

I FIND THIS IDEA GRIPPING: Winter Tires With Auto-Retractable Studs? It’s Not a Bond Movie, It’s Real.