MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Leftists’ masks are coming all the way off — revealing the ugly truth.
September 16, 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.
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.
HMM:
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese criminal gangs with links to the CCP have built an illegal cannabis empire in Siskiyou County, California. They're generating $2 billion a year in revenues and criminal growers are now 20% of the entire population.
Gavin Newsom is doing nothing to stop them. pic.twitter.com/w4hdf9VyEs
— Christopher Rufo (@christopherrufo) September 16, 2026
As an old internet acquaintance asked, “Maybe Gavin is on commission?”
INCREASINGLY: Midterm Polls Come With an Asterisk.
MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: TMZ reports: L.A. and State Officials Say Paramount Leaving California.
CLEAN YOUR TEETH: Plaque Remover for Teeth. #CommissionEarned
THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS EXCESSIVE: A $95,000 Fine for Transporting a 6-Pack of Beer Defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court Brief Argues. “State troopers discovered the beer before the plane took off, and Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor. The trial court, which concluded that Jouppi had been ‘willfully blind’ to the six-pack, sentenced him to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. But state law mandated another punishment that was 63 times as severe: forfeiture of Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane. Although that penalty seemed grossly disproportionate, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that it did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TEACHING REMEDIAL ALGEBRA:
Today in things literally nobody could possibly be surprised about if they have been paying even the slightest bit of attention. https://t.co/12euyfz4id
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) September 16, 2026
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Physicist proves famous ‘Star Trek’ combat strategy works.
IT’S RARELY THAT SIMPLE, BUT THIS IS AN EXCELLENT RULE OF THUMB: AI Regulation: If Bill Gates Is for It, I’m Against It. But Is It That Simple?
CORN, POPPED:
The intent to violate the statute is there. THis is no different than the use of straw donors in making contributions.
I think this guy and his group have a bigger problem than he imagines. Creating "evading" of federal law is just another word for "conspiracy."
This might… https://t.co/YDApahhVN4
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) September 16, 2026
SOMEHOW, THIS FAILED TO GET MUCH COVERAGE LAST WEEK: RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party. “So I’m 72 years old, and for 70 years of my life, I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention. The irony of my presence here is inescapable.”
WELL, GOOD: AI May Have Cracked the Anti-aging Code.
THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN:
Always remember, the climate hoax cult has never been right about a single doom prediction ever. https://t.co/uYy5K8THIo
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 16, 2026
Wait, I thought Florida was going to be gone by the mid-1990s:
THE PROTESTORS NEED GUNS: Iranian Security Forces Prepare for Anniversary of Anti-Hijab Protests
HMM: Are GLP-1s the New Statins? “As their popularity grows, so does the number of health benefits that reach beyond the scale. The most consistent and robust findings seem to be for the heart. In fact, GLP-1s appear to have similar cardiovascular results to statins—a well-established cornerstone of cardiovascular care for decades. But there is one glaring difference: people actually want to take GLP-1s. Despite the expanded use of statins among younger folks, they have grown an unpopular reputation for their potential muscular side effects. Given that the most promising recent cholesterol drug didn’t actually work, is the next pivot toward GLP-1s? And will Ozempic and Mounjaro soon usurp the reign of statins as the go-to heart drug?”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Judge Blocks Maryland From Enforcing Prohibition On Concealed Carry in Silver Spring Synagogue. “The pair of decisions by Senior U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow came down last Thursday as another federal judge weighs the Department of Justice’s challenge to Montgomery County’s new gun prohibitions. The lawsuits are all challenging the county’s ban on sale, transfer, possession, or transport of firearms and ammunition within 100 yards of a ‘place of public assembly.'”
HARD PASS:
I finally read through the Effective Altruism Handbook. A bunch of Model UN kids discovered opportunity cost and expected value, so we're supposed to cede the most important technology in human history to the Chinese Communist Party.
"These dissolve all the problems in…
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) September 16, 2026
As a wise woman once wrote, “Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”
MESSAGE SENT:
Tak wyglądało wczoraj wejście do budynku Parlamentu Europejskiego w Strasburgu. Grupa rekonstrukcyjna z Polski przypomniała o tym, że 12 września 1683 r. Jan III Sobieski uratował Wiedeń przed Turkami. Tu mój tekst w @euronews o tym: https://t.co/zsz0iIXzbv pic.twitter.com/oJTft2o6q0
— Dominika Cosic (@dominikacosic) September 16, 2026
Translation: “This is what the entrance to the European Parliament building in Strasbourg looked like yesterday. A reenactment group from Poland reminded us that on September 12, 1683, Jan III Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks.”
But was the message received?
Also: X’s auto-translate feature is a marvel, but why doesn’t it work in embeds?
