REAGAN SMILES: Space Force Confirms We Have Weapons in Space.
September 15, 2026
THEY’RE JUST ON THE ROAD TO COMMUNISM — LENIN AND STALIN SAID SO: ‘Socialists’ Are NOT Communists, New York Times Insists. “Yet even by the standard of partisan cheerleading, every once in a while—okay, almost every day—an article comes along that is so shameless in its Democratic Party advocacy that it’s enough to make a reader laugh out loud, or at least engage in a visible eye-roll.”
UNEXPECTEDLY:
Turns out the "third party" Anthropic wants to use to gatekeep AI is *funded* by Anthropic 🤡 https://t.co/Q4t8H9WFQm
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 15, 2026
ONCE IS HAPPENSTANCE, TWICE IS COINCIDENCE, THREE TIMES IS ENEMY ACTION:
Yet more stuff that takes way longer than 24 hours to decide, queue up press stories about and then publicly launch.
Quelle coïncidence!https://t.co/xE0iC8sdHW
— Preston Byrne (@prestonjbyrne) September 15, 2026
TIME TO CALL SOME BLUFFS:
Our crazy orange president needs to announce a plan to pack the court, just like Dems keep advocating.
He’ll have Dems shouting that court packing is fascism, which will make for useful video clips down the road.
Just post it on Truth Social. Sit back and watch heads explode,… https://t.co/eucG8ngLOQ
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 15, 2026
NICE WORK, FELLAS: Feds Arrest Would-Be ISIS Mass Shooter in Butler County, Pa.
KING CANUTE AND CALIGULA SMILE: More than 100 people gather in San Francisco to scream at the ocean.
SHE CARRIED OUT AN INTRICATE PLAN TO MURDER HER THREE CHILDREN:
Worse threat to the planet than AI. https://t.co/eUqQe0161X
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) September 15, 2026
THE CHURCHILL EFFECT: Yesterday’s Swedish Elections and Our Midterm Parallel.
Speculation is that part of what may have provided some of the malaise that led to the progressives eking out what may be a numbers win – remember, they still have to form a government and it looks to be extraordinarily difficult at the moment – is the success that the conservatives had in beginning to right the ship in such a short time.
This certainly sounded familiar to me.
Much more at the link, and here’s some background from last week: How to Virtually Eliminate Gang Violence With This One Weird Trick.
HOW THE ANTI-AI SAUSAGE GETS MADE:
Two of the reporters on the byline are funded by the Tarbell Center, an AI doomer org controlled by Kamala Harris megadonor Dustin Moskovitz. Tarbell gives journalists large grants to insert AI doomer stories into prominent outlets. @TIME did not disclose the affiliation. https://t.co/m3iFoQPUW9
— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) September 15, 2026
Related: New op drops:
I’m no expert on AI but…
I’m an expert on recognizing an op when I see one.
If you lived through Russiagate, Covid & 2020 you can see it.
You can feel it.
You know it.
You’re immune to DC’s ops.
And we’re watching an op.
BO, Hillary, Uniparty & Media are the tell.
Facts.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) September 15, 2026
More: “Make it a rule. Carney want that? Nope.”
OK, that did it. Total AI anarchy, please.
Whatever that ChiCom symp doesn’t want. Make it a rule. Carney want that? Nope. https://t.co/mUDwo7VFZD
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 15, 2026
THE LEFT PROJECTS, ALWAYS:
Imagine thinking Sweeney & her glorious tits set women back when it's actually a bunch of pink hat "feminists" defending a mother who blames her hormones for filicide. https://t.co/YftKlsSLeT
— 🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) September 15, 2026
OR OTHER LIVING THINGS: James Talarico Shouldn’t Be Allowed Near Children.
INEVITABLE: A Visa Restriction Too Far.
Regular BattleSwarm readers know I’ve become quite the immigration hawk. All illegal aliens should be deported, NGOs that helped carry out the illegal alien invasion should be investigated, disbanded and their members prosecuted, the cost of applying for a H-1B visa should be raised above $100,000, and the government should crack down hard on companies (I’m looking at you, Microsoft) who have abused the H-1B system to avoid hiring Americans.
But now someone has finally come up with a crackdown idea that’s just stupid and counter-productive.
Even a smart and well-intentioned government will come up with some genuinely bad ideas. Keep it small and divided is the best defense.
DISPATCHES FROM TIM WALZ’S MINNESOTA:
WOAH 🚨 An addiction recovery center in Minnesota accused of stealing millions with fake Medicaid billing has just been exposed to have another account with $25 MILLION
They’ve used our stolen tax money to buy:
– 3 Minnesota homes
– $10.4 million in charges
– $3.5 million on… pic.twitter.com/yaE3QW7vZY— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 15, 2026
VENEZUELA: Is Delcy Coming to the United States?
READER FAVORITE: Seat Cushion for Tailbone & Sciatica Pain Relief. #CommissionEarned
NON-STORY: Costco nearly doubles cost of motor oil, limits purchases.
Costco’s Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil 5-quart two pack now costs around $58, well above the approximately $30 it had been selling for just last year, and limiting customers to buying two boxes a week. It is also limiting purchases of Mobil 1’s full-synthetic motor oil 1-quart six pack, which sells for about $44, to five per membership.
A price hike and purchase limits may take you back to the days of empty shelves where toilet paper once stood, but this likely won’t impact you as much as you may immediately fear.
Unless you’re responsible for “a fleet of thousands of cars,” you probably don’t have to worry about it much, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, told Nexstar.
“The normal car requires four to five quarts every 5,000 miles or so,” De Haan said, describing Costco’s limit as “what would be an extremely reasonable amount.”
But putting that in the headline doesn’t generate as many clicks.
ONCE THE JEWEL OF PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION:
Rampant grade inflation means that grades don't tell us anything about a person's competency. The UC system doesn't accept standardized tests, which do tell us about a person's competency.
The UC system is now flooded with people that require remedial education. https://t.co/Llo1I2okMV
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 15, 2026
HOW A GENERATION LOST ITS COMMON CULTURE: What happens when education prepares students for everything except understanding the civilization they inherited.
None of this is by accident, nor is it well-intentioned but simply misguided.
DON’T WORRY, THERE’S STILL ROOM FOR THINGS TO GET MORE ABSURD:
UK police caught harassing "gender-fluid Muslim woman" in burqa at anti-immigration protesthttps://t.co/VYt9oBLgpA
— Human Events (@HumanEvents) September 15, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Wisconsin Is Suing Trump for Asking Immigrants to Support Themselves.
PLENTY OF COOLING POTENTIAL: Should Data Centers Go Seasteading?
“Some developers are now exploring the ocean as a new location for AI infrastructure in the hopes that underwater data centers could improve energy use and cooling efficiency while using less fresh water and land area than onshore buildings,” writes University of North Carolina Greensboro management professor Nir Kshetri, who studies the social and environmental effects of emerging technology. He calls under-the-sea data centers “a promising new approach for supporting the growth of AI.”
Underwater data centers would be not technically be “seasteaders”—autonomous entities based far enough offshore that they’re not subject to the rules of any government.
Even if underwater data centers could be based physically far enough from shore that they’re not in anyone’s national waters—not necessarily impossible, but impractical, costly, and a logistical nightmare—they would still be subject to various rules of international waters and would still need cables connecting them to land. They would also be run by tech companies based within an existing country’s borders and subject to that country’s oversight and regulations.
Orbital data centers require no cables.
