NOT HARD TO BELIEVE BUT HORRIFYING:  Veterans of the GWOT “saw things with our own eyes that are hard for others to believe”.

THE WEST NEEDS LEADERS THAT DON’T HATE THEIR OWN PEOPLE:  The new front in the British “flag war” – Welsh castles.

THE DOOMERISM IS FAKE; THE HANKERING FOR REGULATORY ADVANTAGE IS REAL:  AI and the security/regulation shell game. Regulation is not security and vice versa.

SOME OF US DO QUITE WELL WITH OUR IMAGINARY FRIENDS ON THE SCREEN, THANK YOU:  There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy. OR: hey buddy, your teeth are falling out.

Okay, I need to “see” people I don’t live with, in the flesh. Quite literally, see them. A walk outside, or a trip to the grocery store allays that need. Now I do realize I’m an introvert. introverts exist. The author of this article didn’t seem to realize that.

TEACH THE CHILDREN WELL:  Kelley Paul Read Her New Book to a Room Full of Kids and Saw Something Iowa Bureaucrats Are Trying to Bury.

COMMUNISM UNITES HUMANITY. IN THE MASS GRAVE:  Internationale Idiots.

WE HAD TO DESTROY RAIL SERVICES TO MAKE HIGH SPEED ONES AVAILABLE… SOMETIME… A High-Speed Rail Punchline (and some more evidence about the details).

IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF IT WEREN’T TRUE:

pic.twitter.com/pdiTLWwhv4

— Jacinthe-Eve Arel 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇫🇷 (@JacintheEveArel) September 16, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

WHO KNEW THE ROMANS HAD SPACE TELESCOPES? Roman Space Telescope starts waking up as NASA powers on instruments for the 1st time.

SURVEY FIND ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ IN FEDS: What does it mean when only one of 10 Americans say they have confidence in information generated by any of the hundreds of federal agencies?

BLESS HER HEART: Greta Thunberg leads pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran.

Greta Thunberg and Lewis Hamilton have rowed in behind the pro-Palestine support acts that have dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour.

The Swedish activist said Sheeran being “cancelled” showed that “global consciousness has shifted” in support of Palestinian causes.

The controversy erupted after Macklemore, a US rapper, called for a “free Palestine” onstage at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this month while supporting the American leg of Sheeran’s Loop tour.

The rapper, whose real name is Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, was droppedafter pressure from Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the Kraft Group and Gillette Stadium, where Sheeran is due to play later this month.

Hamilton expressed his solidarity with Macklemore on Tuesday. The Formula One Driver wrote on Instagram: “Thank you for using your voice, standing with you.”

Sheeran has denied being involved in the decision to remove the rapper but has faced a wave of criticism, with all other support acts quitting the tour in solidarity with Macklemore.

In a statement on Tuesday, Sheeran said he had his “own views” on the conflict in the Middle East, which he did not want to share publicly.

Related: I Who Never Mackled Less Shall Mackle No More.

Free speech is irrelevant. No government is preventing his speech. Jewish owners have no responsibility to allow him to spew his bigotry in their place of business and they are choosing not to allow it

— Jonathan Hirsch (@JonH1rsch) September 14, 2026

Sheeran has never been a political personality, preferring to remain in neutral territory – kind of refreshing for an entertainer in this day and age – and made clear that this has been the promoter’s call: remove the blatantly antisemitic Macklemore or lose the venue.

Suddenly, the other scheduled acts, including Sheeran’s own band, are sliding off into the night ‘in solidarity’ with the Jew-hating Macklemore.

Well, gosh – tells you all about them, doesn’t it?

It’s also telling who is loudly condemning Sheeran while supporting the ‘Free Palestine’ tool.

It is a veritable roster of Jew haters and communists.

ISN’T MY HAIR PRET-TEE?

https://twitter.com/TMZ/status/2099985553374486882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2099985553374486882%7Ctwgr%5Ef064fed96d9a87a30da4e7c60d6636af03bc00c8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Ftree-hugging-sister%2F2026%2F09%2F16%2Fi-who-never-mackled-less-shall-mackle-no-more-n3819049

I’m so old, I can remember 2018 and 2019, back when Greta and AOC were both screaming that life on Planet Earth would soon reach its conclusion:

● Greta Thunberg deletes 2018 tweet saying world will end in 2023 after world does not end.

—The Post Millennial, March 11th, 2023.

● AOC: No, Seriously, We Only Have 12 Years Left.

CRITICIZING THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT A FEDERAL OFFENSE. After agents pursued David Streever over a harsh political email, a federal court ordered DHS and ICE to back off, a major First Amendment win and a reminder that government power still has limits..

FIGHT THE POWER:

This is a big announcement. Leftists have had their own free legal representation for decades. Conservatives haven’t.

This is because traditionally, conservatives have thought of politics as winning the debate. It’s comfortable. It’s institutional. They don’t have to be “mean”… https://t.co/Vk3OU6wUoG

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 16, 2026

ICYMI:

It was clear last week that Talarico was trying to get ahead of some bad things coming, now they are arriving. https://t.co/ZhOm1WEZvD

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) September 16, 2026

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: TMZ reports: L.A. and State Officials Say Paramount Leaving California.

UPDATE: American Idol leaves L.A. for Georgia amid Hollywood flight.

MORE: Paramount is looking for Nashville office space as it weighs leaving LA. “Paramount Skydance is actively looking for office space in Nashville — a sign the company is seriously considering moving at least some operations from Los Angeles amid the legal fight over its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to two people familiar with the search who were granted anonymity to discuss it.”

BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: James Talarico’s Lesbian Minister Just Outed Him.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Leftists’ masks are coming all the way off — revealing the ugly truth.

HMM: Stealth Startup Kepler Computing Says It Cracked the AI Memory Shortage.

Kepler Computing has come out of stealth with the kind of claim the AI industry badly wants to believe. The San Jose startup says its ferroelectric memory approach can raise SRAM density, lower operating voltage and make high-bandwidth memory easier to build with existing semiconductor equipment. If it works, you get relief in a market where AI server demand is already pulling memory and storage supply away from almost everyone else.

That’s a large if.

According to Wired’s report on Kepler, the company was founded in 2018 by CEO Debo Olaosebikan and CTO Sasi Manipatruni, and the team went through 35 versions of its composite material before settling on the class it now plans to take into production. Manipatruni told Wired, “We came up with a material innovation that helps with the amount of memory you can have between chips.” The line is technical, but the business point is plain enough: Kepler is trying to put more memory closer to compute without asking the industry to build an entirely new kind of fab.

Material science breakthroughs are common in slide decks. They are rarer in fabs.

But: “Kepler’s pitch is stronger than the usual lab-result story because GlobalFoundries is already involved. Wired reported that Kepler and GlobalFoundries converted a fab line to next-generation status in eight months, compared with about 24 months for a typical conversion.”

I’ve had the upgrade itch for a while now, but RAM prices have kept me from scratching it. A little price relief would be welcome all around, provided they can pull this off.

HOW DARE YOU SHARE MY PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF A MURDER:

🚨 WTF?! The University of Utah student who CELEBRATED Charlie Kirk’s assassination in a viral photo is now trying to get Rylie, the patriotic student who called her out, EXPELLED@UUtah better choose their next steps WISELY unless they want DOJ involved

Support @Rylieparis05!… https://t.co/gNE2tnGCp0

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2026

BE PREPARED: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket, Kitchen & Home. #CommissionEarned

INDEED:

If cars were invented today, there's no way in hell the establishment would let ordinary people own or drive them.

— texel (@TexelElf) September 16, 2026

If the proles can’t be trusted with something by today’s elites, that’s all the more reason they should have it.

KA-BOOM: Shotgun Mini Shells: In Defense of ‘Hater Tots.’

MOOD INDIGO: Getting used to tyranny.

Just now, in the California gulag, a law was enacted to forbid the watering of “decorative” grasses, regardless of drought conditions. But it’s okay. We’ve become sort of used to it.

My sense of self-worth, however, resents being told what to do with my water. Sometimes I think of sustaining other non-essential plants…and even taking a shower or washing dishes. But the self-anointed geniuses have already enacted a statute that limits household daily water consumption to 55 gallons per resident for “internal” use, not including landscape irrigation. Since nobody knows how many residents are at any particular address, let alone what water is used indoors versus in the garden, the same “rulers” put the burden of enforcement on the local water districts. Thus far, such authorities have looked the other way.

All this has been done in order to compensate for avoiding the most obvious way of dealing with this issue: increasing reservoir storage capacity and building coastal desalination plants next to nuclear power generating facilities, as has been done near Carlsbad.

Why are we being governed by such stupid jerks? Answer: because we allow it.

Read the whole thing.

THE GOVERNMENT DOESN’T GET TO SEND AGENTS AFTER YOU FOR HURTING ITS FEELINGS. FIRE proved that point after a federal court ordered DHS and ICE to stop threatening David Streever over protected criticism of an ICE official.