ATTACK DOG WITH A SMILE:

Vance is so damn good at this. Look at how affable he is while hitting CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the middle of the head with a ball-peen hammer.

"Special access" is the exact right way to frame this…

Because that's what it is…

And we all remember these outlets pushing…

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) September 21, 2026

Related:

Late night hosts celebrating Trump being banned from social media. pic.twitter.com/7igDcNzvXn

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 20, 2026

DENMARK TOOK IN 321 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN 1992. DECADES LATER, 61% HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES:

Denmark granted special residence permits to 321 stateless Palestinians from Lebanon in 1992. By the end of 2019, Danish government data showed that 196 of the original 321 (61%) had been found guilty of at least one criminal offense.

Together, the 196 accumulated 881 criminal… pic.twitter.com/4UZFwdW7mT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 21, 2026

ICYMI: Who Had ‘World War III Starting in Estonia’ on Their 2026 Bingo Card?

GET RID OF PESTS: Zevo Flying Insect Trap for Fruit Flies & Gnats, 2 Plug-in Bases. #CommissionEarned

PERSPECTIVE:

To put the banality of evil into perspective, this reply is in the comments to the an article about an old lady in Canada changing her mind about getting MAIDed, the government killing her anyway, and to make it extra horrible, they botched it so she died terrified and covered in… https://t.co/dlbFa0rRpC

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) September 21, 2026

EH, MOSTLY I JUST ASK SAYUNCLE FOR ADVICE: How Do You Research Your Most Important Gun-Related Purchases? Or sometimes Tamara Keel.

ERASING WOMEN: Chicago community college will train midwives to help ‘birthing individuals.’

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES ALWAYS HAS THE LAST LAUGH:

Like 800,000 people watch CNN, if you filter their coverage through an “independent” content review board, that number will be 250,000 by next summer

— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) September 21, 2026

REAGAN WAS RIGHT ON STAR WARS: More than 1,500 Iranian ballistic missiles have been intercepted before striking U.S. military targets and other targets in Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East.

The President who first proposed the  Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) nee “Star Wars” in 1983 was lambasted for proposing the impossible. Too bad those critics aren’t around today to see Reagan’s vision being fulfilled.

UGH: ‘He Died in My Arms’ — Lindsay Clancy’s Ex-Husband Speaks.

READER FAVORITE: HOSHANHO 6 Inch Kitchen Knife, Ultra Sharp Japanese Kitchen Utility Knife. #CommissionEarned

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT*:

The GOP is a clown show but if the Dems gain power they will simply end all immigration enforcement and the country will be over

They have said this explicitly, repeatedly, and consistently https://t.co/6Juv106OZj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) September 21, 2026

*Because they do.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do COVID And AI Rhyme?

Think about that for a moment.

Some of the people leading the race are now asking government to help slow the race.

Business titans generally don’t beg Washington to regulate their industries. When they do, it is reasonable to ask why.

Perhaps these executives genuinely fear what they are creating. Given the extraordinary capabilities of AI, that possibility should not be dismissed.

But there is another possibility.

Regulation is expensive. Giant corporations can afford armies of lawyers, compliance officers, lobbyists, engineers, and safety researchers. Smaller competitors and startups often cannot. What begins as a regulatory guardrail can eventually become a competitive moat.

Investor Steve Eisman, famous for anticipating the 2008 housing collapse, recently made precisely this argument, suggesting that AI companies warning of catastrophe may benefit from regulations that protect dominant firms from competitors.

That doesn’t prove motive, but it certainly makes the question worth asking.

And the political cavalry was arriving at roughly the same time.

Read the whole thing.

NOW, CAESAR’S ROAD ATLAS: Ancient Rome Built 190,000 Miles Of Roads And Researchers Just Traced Them All.

BUT GOOD LUCK NEUTERING THE TRIAL LAWYER LOBBY:

Bessent: No Liability Shield for AI

Good call. If AI really is as dangerous as their paid activists claim, the solution is more liability.

As for the claim liability will strangle the industry, the fix is neuter the trial lawyer lobby, not give out free passes to break stuff… https://t.co/q87Yb0mFdc

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 21, 2026

FASCINATING: Something Very Strange Is Happening With Trump and AI Users — and It Just Might Swing the Midterms. “Americans who use artificial intelligence (AI) tools every day are the only AI-usage group to give President Donald Trump a net positive approval rating, a new Rainey Center poll has found.”

IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY APPARENTLY HAS ITS LIMITS AT WHITMAN. The student senate voted 25–0 against recognizing the Republican Club after scrutinizing its politics, and FIRE is calling on the college to give the group a fair, viewpoint-neutral shot.

NO, THERE WILL BE ROBOTS: Smart beds and motion sensors – is this the future of dementia care?

FLASHBACK: The Banality of Leninism. “Historians often act like Lenin’s tyranny was a bolt from the blue: Who would have expected a bunch of socialists to be so bloodthirsty? Admirers of Lenin, in contrast, often paint him as a great innovator – at least as a strategist. A dictatorship of the proletariat run by a vanguard party of bourgeois intellectuals? Only Lenin could have conceived it. When you read 19th-century Russian literature, however, “Leninist” memes clearly predate the birth of Lenin. Contrary to many historians, Lenin’s atrocities were foreseeable. And contrary to Lenin’s admirers, his strategy of atrocity was pure cliche.”

This piece is from 2012 but is as timely as ever.

QUELLE SURPRISE: Now We Have Proof That the FBI Protected Biden in Classified Docs Case.

PANIC: Human extinction fears make me want to flee AI and live on an island.

Hope that works out for you.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Effective Altruism is evil. “These people are impossible to parody. I wish I could convey to you how absurd this is, but any straightforward description of it makes one sound insane.”

BOW TO THE MASTER: This Might Be Trump’s Most Magnificent Troll of All Time.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS, FEMALE ENTITLEMENT EDITION: California tech exec mocked for cringeworthy list of dating ‘non-negotiables.’

Honestly, most of what she says would be fine if cast as suggestions instead of demands.

But she’s 29. See how she feels in a couple of years.

HMM: America Needs a New Urban Vision.

Cities historically grew and prospered because of their location by rivers, ports, or natural resources. They might also have been the capitals of great empires or religious centers, or boasted vital institutions like universities, museums, and industry clusters—legacies of great economic booms.

The age of modern media has seen the emergence of a new key element catalyzing growth in contemporary societies: a compelling urban vision. Urban visions formulate attractive paradigms of what a successful city looks like, focusing on four central ingredients: people, businesses, leaders, and capital.

American cities largely lack such a unifying idea today.

Interesting article, but I remain wary of people who have visions of how other people should live.

Why not try good governance and letting people figure it out for themselves?