OR, YOU CAN DRILL, BABY, DRILL:
Funny https://t.co/6XRurW0qfx
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) September 21, 2026
September 22, 2026
HOW LONG BEFORE HE’S ACCUSED OF RACISM?
In 25 years, Todd Beamer's dad never got involved in a political campaign.
That's because for the past 25 years, no major candidate had ever campaigned with someone who said America deserved 9/11. Until now. https://t.co/soVkQjl9H6
— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) September 22, 2026
I’M PRETTY SURE THE ANSWER WILL ONLY GET ME UPSET : “Why Are AP Scores Rising? The College Board’s Answers Don’t Add Up.”
IF NGOS ARE INCENTIVIZING WAR, THEY SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE.
BOMBSHELL: Motaz Azaiza admits Gazans were hoping for war.
"Let me tell you a secret. I don't know if you'll keep it in. A lot of people in Gaza were wishing the war would come."
Why? "When a war or an escalation comes, the NGOs talk to you. There's a job opportunity."
"People… pic.twitter.com/gM8M4AwCRF
— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) September 20, 2026
IT’S MORNING IN ARGENTINA:
Javier Milei – The Proof of Concept.
The long march took a century to build. Milei has been dismantling its Argentine expression in real time, with a chainsaw, on television, while calling the central bank a criminal organization. This is not a metaphor. The chainsaw was a… https://t.co/F7UgeCbsrz pic.twitter.com/Ens9OdUt7o
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) September 21, 2026
AT AMAZON, Shop Early Prime Big Day Deals. #CommissionEarned
YES: America Must Be Able to Restore Its Space Power at War Speed.
The White House’s new National Security Science and Technology Strategy identifies space as one of only three priority areas, alongside undersea capabilities and artificial intelligence and autonomy, for U.S. “battlefield dominance and power projection.” It calls for clear U.S. technological superiority from very low Earth orbit through cislunar space, the area between Earth and the moon.
The administration also released an updated National Space Transportation Policy, replacing guidance issued in 2013. The Obama-era policy already called for responsive, resilient access to space and rapid restoration of capabilities during conflict. The Trump update goes further, explicitly linking rapid and resilient access to space to U.S. space superiority. It calls for space ranges to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 and directs the Pentagon to evaluate barriers to supporting high-priority national security launches within 48 hours of need, including from expeditionary locations.
Those goals matter because China is building capabilities both to exploit space and to deny it to the United States. The Pentagon assesses that Beijing is developing jammers, lasers, anti-satellite missiles, and on-orbit systems intended to restrict U.S. access to space during conflict. China also operates more than 500 satellites that contribute to a broader “sensor-shooter kill web” architecture used to locate forward-deployed U.S. and allied forces. Beijing is also rapidly scaling its ability to put new capabilities into orbit; targeting 140 launches in 2026, a 52 percent increase from 2025.
With China improving both its space and counterspace capabilities, U.S. space superiority cannot rest solely on having better satellites. Washington also needs the ability to rapidly replace or augment critical capabilities when satellites or supporting infrastructure are disrupted.
We haven’t had a White House this serious about national defense — or more forward-looking about it — since Reagan.
WELL, THAT’S THE GOAL: Net Zero Turns Western Countries Into Chinese Satrapies.
AS GLENN SAID THE OTHER DAY, BUCKLE UP:
This is something I expect to see before any attempt at using the Belarusian military offensively.
But with the usual level of corruption, backstabbing and opposition sympathies in that outfit, this could be just normal housekeeping. https://t.co/M4dG4sSjzX
— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) September 21, 2026
IN AMERICA, MURDER HAS BECOME MAINSTREAM:
It’s not millionaire socialists such as Piker who pick up rifles to gun down Charlie Kirk or Zionist Jews or anyone else on the far-left’s hit list. Piker’s role is simply to create an environment in which others will act. He’s not alone: the hatred and hysteria whipped up to kill Kirk was fomented by countless small-time radical campaigners. They put a target on Kirk’s back by painting him as a threat to transgender people’s lives. The reality was that his own life was endangered – and was then taken by a gunman.
His slaughter is now a source of ongoing glee for the sort of people who listen to (and sing along with) Piker. There may be other forces at work in the brains of those who pity Lindsay Clancy, a child-killer without a political agenda. Yet it’s hard to avoid comparing her apologists with Luigi Mangione’s left-wing admirers. Mangione became a folk hero to anti-capitalist radicals after he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. Clancy’s case lacks the overt ideological angle, but emotions run deeper than ideas. Mangione and Clancy have both benefited from a warped sense of sympathy for the underdog and greater identification with the killers’ plight than with that of the victims. It’s been argued that this is a projection of “Main Character Syndrome,” the narcissistic belief of many people, in this age of social media, that the whole world is nothing but a film in which they are the star.
Other people are not really real – they’re just extras, or stock villains (the heartless healthcare executive), or mere props to set up the psychodrama (Clancy’s dead children). Clancy’s five-year-old daughter and two sons, one three years old, the other just eight months, were too young to be main characters. But Clancy, like Mangione, looks like someone who might star in a TV drama where the obviously guilty defendant miraculously turns out to be innocent. That kind of story is so much easier to relate to than one in which a mother really does intend to kill her defenseless children, or one in which a leftist young man isn’t justified in his murderous rage against “the system.” When was the last time you saw anything like that on Netflix?
Including:
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%. pic.twitter.com/C3qb2H0R8j
— Center for Strategic Politics (@StratPolitics) September 21, 2026
THE TERM FOR THIS SORT OF THING IN THE TRADE IS “VISUAL DIVERSITY” AND YES, THAT’S A THING.
“Great pic. Let’s add a black woman and make the Asian look worth attending class for”
— hotl.eth (@0xhotl) September 21, 2026
Flashback: A Campus More Colorful Than Reality: Beware That College Brochure.
Related: 25 years ago today University of Wisconsin was caught photoshopping a black man onto their brochure.
PEOPLE CAN BE VERY SUGGESTIBLE – ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE’S A CHANCE OF GETTING GOVERNMENT MONEY: The Long Shadow of ‘Long Covid’. No biomarkers, no clear definition and a symptom list of thirty: why is anyone still talking about long Covid?
FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” DEPT.: Flashback: That Time When CNN Wondered Whether Biden Should Ban Fox News From the White House.
THAT’S BECAUSE CONSERVATIVES KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN DISAGREE WITH THEM; LIBERALS BELIEVE ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH THEM IS A THREAT: Fox News Liberal to Maher: Actually, Conservatives Are More Accepting of Me Than Liberals.
THEY WERE MAD BEFORE THE TRIAL. RAVING MAD: Unhinged Female Jurors Are Mad That the Lindsay Clancy Holdout Focused on the Facts.
EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM IS THE LONG-FORM SPELLING OF “EVIL”: I mapped 25+ GB of Effective Altruism material. Here’s what I learned. Why Effective Altruism should be banned from AI safety, policy-making, and governance.
SEEMS LIKE THERE SHOULD BE A TERM FOR TAKING FOREIGN MONEY TO UNDERMINE THE US CONSTITUTION, DOESN’T IT? Mexico’s Government Funds Gun Grabbing Group.
And a penalty. Something about… by the neck, till dead.
YOU CAN TELL THE WITHDRAWAL OF USAID FUNDS REALLY HURT THEM, THOUGH: No papier-mache heads! Manufactured AI Panic Hits the Streets, Complete With T-Shirts, Marching Robots.
And all because the PRC wants the field to itself.
THIS KEEPS HAPPENING TO ME: You can file this under the category of unsolicited advice. I bring it up because it keeps happening to me. If there’s somebody on the older side out there that you know only slightly or perhaps you don’t know at all, but you’ve always wanted to sit down with him or her and talk, try to do it sooner rather than later. Much sooner if possible. You never know when they will be gone for good.
I won’t mention any names–but let me give two examples (out of a half dozen so). A few years ago, I kept telling myself that I needed to drive up to Los Angeles and have coffee with a friendly acquaintance of mine who had lived an interesting life. LA isn’t that far from here. It would have been easy. As a young man, this friendly acquaintance of mine had been a pro-Castro communist. Somehow by old age he’d become a remarkably thoughtful conservative. I really liked him and wanted to know just how the transformation had occurred. On the rare occasions that we had been together at conferences there just hadn’t been time to talk about that sort of thing. Then suddenly it was too late.
Today something similar happened. For the last fifteen years or so, I’ve been wondering whether I could locate a certain lawyer who had been working at the Department of Justice during the period when Congress was working on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He had worked with Hubert Humphrey on how to word the Act. Then he’d been in the General Counsel’s office at the EEOC during the early years and had clashed with the most aggressively leftist attorney there on how to interpret Title VII. I’ve cited his work many times in the past, and when I do I’ve always wondered if he is still alive and if there was any part of his experience that he would feel comfortable telling me about. But because his name is somewhat common, I worried it might be hard to find him.
Today, I was citing him again in connection with a lawsuit I’m working on. (If all goes well, I’ll tell you about my new lawsuit soon. I hope will be a big deal.) I decided to put a little effort into finding him. I figured the chance that he was alive 62 years later wasn’t all that great, and I turned out to be right about that. But here’s the kicker: He died only a few weeks ago. If he was of sound mind at any point over the last decade or so, I missed my chance.
Don’t miss yours.
Yes, it goes without saying that the same applies to the older people you do know well.
DANGER AHEAD. AND NOT JUST FROM THE ELECTIONS: Heads-Up!
AND BY JOURNALIST WE SHOULD READ “HAMAS OPERATIVE”: Gaza journalist who met with Mamdani admits he buried Oct. 7 footage of Israeli hostages being beaten to protect perpetrators.
THEIR GOAL IS THAT ALL CHILDREN BELONG TO THE STATE, IN THE END: Here it is, Washington. The Money Quote on what the Governor thinks about the parents of our state.
IF THE US DOESN’T PUT WEAPONS IN SPACE, CHINA WILL: Define “Weapons”, in “Weapons in Space”…if you don’t mind…What did you think competition in space meant, vibes?
