CHINA IS A PROBLEM, BUT PARTS OF OUR INTEL COMMUNITY ARE A REAL THREAT: Biden’s CIA Reportedly Cast Pro-Family Americans Under Extremism Suspicion.
March 24, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Carrying 800 passengers and their household goods, agricultural animals, and farm-related supplies to Earth’s first interstellar colony, starship Origen’s hyperdrive self-destructs, marooning its passengers near an Earth-twin planet orbiting an unknown solar-twin star. While settling in, the inadvertent colonists name their world Valeron, and discover that Valeron is scattered with hundreds of thousands of alien replicator machines—but there are no aliens nor any other trace of them.
Each replicator is a shallow 8-foot-wide black stone-like bowl half-full of fine silver dust. Beside the bowl are two waist-high pillars about 8 inches in diameter, one pale silver, the other pale gold. Tap on either pillar, and the pillar makes a sound like a drum, one pillar high, the other low. Tap 256 times on the pillars in any sequence, and something surfaces in the bowl of dust. Simple sequences create simple and useful things like shovels, knives, rope, saws, lamps, glue and much else. Complex or random sequences create strangely shaped forms of silver-gray metal with no obvious use. 256 taps on the pillars can create any of 2E256 different things; in scientific notation, 1.16 X 10E77.
That’s just short of one thing for every atom in the observable universe.
The artifacts are dubbed “drumlins,” for the sounds the pillars make, and the replicators called “thingmakers.” Drumlins have strange properties. Although virtually indestructible, drumlins can change shape, especially when doing so will protect a human being from injury. Drumlin knives will not cut living human tissue, but they will cut living animal tissue or human corpses. Press a drumlin knife against your palm, and it will flow and flatten out to a disk. Pull the knife away, and it will slowly return to its form as a knife. Some claim that drumlins read human minds and grant wishes. Others insist they are haunted by invisible and perhaps hostile intelligences.
After 250 years on Valeron, the colony prospers. Starship Origen is still in orbit, and a cult-like research organization called the Bitspace Institute vows to repair Origen’s hyperdrive and return to Earth. With millions of drumlins catalogued using the thingmakers, Valeron’s people live well and begin to lose interest in returning to Earth. This threatens the Institute’s mission, prompting it to launch a covert effort to undermine public faith in drumlins. A low-key war begins between the Institute and those who value drumlins–including farmers, rural folk, an order of mystical women, and several peculiar teen girls who have an unexplained rapport with the thingmakers and their mysterious masters.
AND SPEAKING OF SHUTDOWNS: Remembering the Shutdowns.
NO LONGER A JOKE: Shutdown.
ONLY I’D DISPUTE IT’S NOT “CONSERVATIVE”, IT’S “SANE”: Hello, Columbus.
WHO DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING? Drones Swarm Nuclear Bomber Base, Exposing Potential Threat to U.S. Aircrews.
AND EVERY COMMUNIST I’VE EVER KNOWN IMAGINED HE’D BE ON TOP WHEN COMMUNISM CAME: Communism’s Cool When You’re on Top.
THE VIRGINIA ATTEMPT TO STEAL “DEMOCRACY” FOR DEMOCRATS: Stealing an Election as We Watch. Spanberger to Biden: “You think you know how to steal an election? Hold my chablis, and watch what I can do.”
LOOK, I DON’T LIKE THE MAN, BUT I’M SKEPTICAL: Despicable behavior.
The character of the accusers. How long it took come out. The fact that Cesar Chavez was a rabid opponent of illegal immigration… all of it makes me very uncomfortable saying “yes, this is true.”
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS MULTICULTURALISM. THERE’S ONLY ABUSE: Reject multiculturalism as you would reject fake meat.
THE MAN IS SO TWISTY HE COULD GO DOWN A CORKSCREW WITHOUT TOUCHING THE SIDES: Precision Imprecision.
AS FAR AS EXCUSES GO, THIS IS A PRETTY GOOD ONE: This Day Eaten By Dogs.
March 23, 2026
I ANSWER THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is the “Big Arch” worth eating?
DEVELOPING: Port Arthur, TX: Authorities on scene of possible explosion at Valero refinery, shelter-in-place issued. “Sheriff Zena Stephens tells FOX Beaumont the explosion was likely caused by an industrial heater. Officials also told FOX Beaumont that there are no reported injuries.”
JUST IN: Explosion reported at Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Nearby residents told to shelter in place pic.twitter.com/wjYPyx98PW
— BNO News (@BNONews) March 24, 2026
UPDATE:
Hearing they know this was an accident and what the cause was.
But pro-Iran accounts will still try to push their propaganda.
Unfortunately, these accidents at refineries aren’t that rare. https://t.co/dzVusODr1Y
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 24, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
TUCKER CARLSON HAS BECOME TEHRAN’S MOST EFFECTIVE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PROPAGANDIST:
Hey @megynkelly and @Heritage! Come get your boy! https://t.co/GwtvykH6mN
— Mulder’s Long Fight for Account Reinstatement (@proteinwisdom) March 23, 2026
And with his hatred of Churchill and his newfound love for Oswald Mosley, he’s certainly got plenty of the Reich Stuff, to boot.
Why, it’s as if:
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lefty hypocrites’ revolting Cuba vacation is par for the communist course.
PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1989: Arsenio Hall lifts the lid on wild late-night era: TV host’s strip club trips with Prince, his showdown with OJ Simpson, and how he got Bill Clinton to play his sax on air.
The new book paints a picture of a chaotic era in television where the line between on-screen success and off-screen excess was often blurred.
The Arsenio Hall Show ran for five years between 1989 and 1994 and featured hundreds of celebrities in what Hall hoped would be a house party on TV every night.
Hall made his show the home of hip-hop and helped break rappers like Snoop Dogg, Tupac and Ice Cube while musical guests included James Brown, Whitney Houston, and Luther Vandross.
The show would win two Emmys and lead Hall to star in hit movies like 1988 comedy, Coming to America, alongside Murphy.
It was an astonishing achievement for the son of a single mother from Cleveland, Ohio, who idolized the talk show host Johnny Carson as a child and began his show business career aged five doing magic shows in the basement of his building.
A switch to comedy and a move to Los Angeles paved the way for Hall to be offered a guest spot hosting The Late Show on Fox after Joan Rivers, the original host, bombed.
Impressed Paramount executives offered Hall his own show, making him the first black, syndicated late night host.
Arsenio was young, hip and cool, and consequently made Johnny Carson look very dated by comparison, and allowed Lorne Michaels, the producer of Saturday Night Love, who had no love lost between him Carson, deliver the kill shot:
“Was it a coincidence that Johnny Carson stepped down as host of the Tonight Show after 29 years just three days after this segment aired on Saturday Night Live? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But this even making the airwaves on Carson’s own NBC network was a bit shocking. I was only 15 years old when this very funny SNL skit played and I even understood what it meant. Johnny Carson was going to be very pissed off by what he saw.”
VDH: Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country.
I grew up in rural California surrounded by hard-working immigrant farm families from Armenia, India, Japan and Mexico. Their work ethic, love of America and productive farms were models for US non-immigrants.
My own Swedish grandfather, disabled by poison gas while fighting on the Western Front in World War I, loved all things Swedish, but not nearly as much as his beloved America.
Four Hansons fought on the front lines of World Wars I and II. One was disabled, and another was killed. And all felt blessed that their parents and grandparents had gotten to America.
But something has gone terribly wrong with immigration — an open border, of course, but also a change in legal immigration as well as student visitors.
While America is at war with Iran, crowds of immigrants, visitors and foreign students scream anti-American slogans as they cheer our enemies.
Read the whole thing.
