September 27, 2026

OUT ON A LIMB: AOC’s team admitted it: The Green New Deal was never about saving the planet.

The Green New Deal is all about power and control.

Shortly after Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Green New Deal, her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, let the cat out of the bag.

“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Chakrabarti admitted to reporters. “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a ‘how do you change the entire economy’ thing.”

With most Americans no longer worried about a climate change apocalypse, I suspect the left will simply invent another scaremongering campaign to justify the Green New Deal.

Whatever they come up with, Americans should remain skeptical because the Green New Deal is just a mechanism for the far Left to exert unprecedented command and control.

As summer wound down, the left seamlessly transferred the “we only have five/ten/12 years to save the planet” rhetoric of radical environmentalism to AI doomsday rhetoric:

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THE DNC-MSM’S BATTLEFIELD PREP FOR THE MIDTERMS:

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FIRST, DO NO HARM.

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AWFUL PRESIDENT:

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September 26, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

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“IRONY.”

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CRUSADESMAXXING: The Jerusalem Cross is going up on A-road lampposts. Richard the Lionheart kit at Reform rallies. Templars at Tommy Robinson marches. “Christ is King!” cried by Danny Tommo and his lot down in Dover. Crusader crosses are quietly usurping the Cross of St George — itself a crusader cross — at Portsmouth, London and points between. The algorithm is pumping out AI knight reels faster than a medieval pope pumping out papal bulls. England is Crusadesmaxxing.

The crusades were a defensive struggle by indigenous peoples against occupation by settler colonialists.

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THE FUNERAL OF CNN:

CNN is getting a new owner, on a short clock. Paramount Skydance is expected to complete its acquisition of WBD by early October, according to reports from KVIA — which means whatever CNN becomes next gets decided by people who didn’t build it.

Leadership is a question mark. Mark Thompson’s future at the network remains unresolved, and Fox News reports that Paramount CEO David Ellison still has to figure out how CNN fits alongside CBS News — two once-fierce competitors about to share a corporate parent, with no clear answer yet on who runs what. Attention, Bari Weiss: I’d not be spending much time unpacking just yet.

Layoffs are coming, and CNN’s own people are saying so. Brian Stelter, still on CNN’s payroll, (why I have no idea) said on air that layoffs and cost-cutting are “almost certainly” coming as Paramount hunts for efficiencies and works off the debt load from the deal, according to CNN’s own transcripts. When the in-house media reporter is narrating his own newsroom’s layoffs on air, that’s not spin — that’s a company bracing for it in real time.

And the audience problem hasn’t gone anywhere. Variety notes CNN’s linear ratings sit well below where they were during Trump’s first term, even as the company has poured effort into building out a digital subscription business to compensate. The cable-news gravy train that used to cover for everything else isn’t pulling its weight anymore.

Here’s the detail that makes the whole thing almost too perfect: this isn’t the funeral of a company hemorrhaging money. WBD had actually projected CNN would pull in roughly $600 million in profit on $1.8 billion in revenue in 2026. So nobody’s burying a corpse. They’re burying the CNN its own employees thought they worked for — the assumptions, the standing, the sense of being untouchable, all going into the ground at once, while the balance sheet, ironically, still looks fine. Traditionally, that’s the description of a company chugging along on a reputation it no longer deserves, if it ever did.

That’s the real story here, and it’s worth stating plainly: CNN isn’t being buried because it lost money. It’s being buried because the business model, the audience, the ownership, the management, and every assumption that defined the network for three decades are all getting interred simultaneously, on the same afternoon, by a company that didn’t build any of it and owes it nothing sentimental.

And the symbolism practically writes itself from here. CNN is about to join the same corporate family as CBS News — a rival network it spent decades trying to beat — while Paramount reportedly contemplates real structural changes to both operations at once. The merger settlement even mandates the creation of a joint News Editorial Independence Board covering both CNN and CBS, which Investing.com reports experts are already warning will be toothless in practice — a supervisory body built mainly to look reassuring on paper.

Exit quote:

The truth is that CNN spent the better part of two decades building a newsroom that half the country correctly identified as leaning against it, then acted surprised when half the country stopped showing up. You don’t get to alienate an audience for twenty years and call the funeral a mystery.

As late as 1992, you could be a journalist like the late Ginny Carroll, a bureau chief with the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek, who admitted on C-SPAN that she wore a button with “Yeah, I’m in the Media. Screw You” printed on it at that year’s Republican convention, and suffer no repercussions. CNN was the first attempt to build a 24/7 news channel, kicking off a new era of what Alvin Toffler dubbed the “demassification” of media. Too bad its on-air newsreaders had exactly the same worldview as those on the original Big Three American television networks, before the other half of the viewing public was finally given choices that aligned with their ideology.

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

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THAT’S IN LINE WITH PREWAR SHIPPING:

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GREAT MOMENTS IN SPORTSMANSHIP: Texas defensive star flagged for pretending to urinate on field after sack in ‘idiotic move.’

Colin Simmons’ crude celebration flushed any positives from his sack.

The Texas edge rusher pretended to urinate on the field after taking down Tennessee freshman quarterback Faizon Brandon in the second quarter of the No. 1 Longhorns’ road game Saturday, with President Donald Trump in attendance.

Simmons got flagged almost immediately for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, turning what would’ve been a 16-yard loss for Tennessee into a 15-yard gain and an automatic first down for the Volunteers.

The celebration from the Longhorns captain was so daunting that it riled up ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, leaving him stunned on the ABC broadcast.

“Just an absolute idiotic move by Colin Simmons doing that,” Herbstreit said.

Added play-by-play man Chris Fowler: “It’s idiotic, and it doesn’t get much more vulgar, either.”

The disturbing display comes after a spectacular season for the All-America Second Team pick. He’s fresh off a 2025 season in which he had 43 tackles, 12 sacks and three forced fumbles.

Shouldn’t coaches be instructing their players not to do stupid taunts that cost their teams yardage and downs?

Translated, the tweet reads, “DE Collin Simmons has just been penalized for: ‘Simulating going to the bathroom!'”

My extremely well-worn 1982 edition of The Illustrated NFL Playbook begins with the following anecdote:

Once during a Green Bay Packers offensive slump, head coach Vince Lombardi called a team meeting. “We’re going back to basics, he said. “Back to fundamentals.”

“Now this,” he said, holding up a ball, “is a football.”

“Hold on, coach,” interrupted split end Max McGee. “You’re going too fast.”

Perhaps additional fundamentals need to be taught as well, in all levels of football.

UPDATE: This incident also happened, apparently: Texas’s Touchdown Celebrations Are Officially Unhinged — Raleek Brown Just Sniffed His Balls And Passed Out. “And now we’re sniffing balls and passing out. Just two of THE most ridiculous celebrations you will ever see by the same team in the same game. Remarkable stuff. And to think the NFL gives out fines for beer drinking. NFL would ban them for life if they saw this stuff on a Sunday. Insane. Compliance office gonna have a field day on Monday!”

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OLD AND BUSTED: Charles Manson interpreted the songs on the Beatles’ “White Album” as being a call for a titanic race war.

The New Hotness? Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist.

Among the many woke winners of this year’s prestigious National Book Awards is a black Columbia University professor whose screed attacks “white paint” as racist.

Professor Wendy Walters’ new book, “A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint,” claims that white paint is not the “neutral” architectural design element that it initially appears to be.

Instead, she “interrogates all that we have taken for granted about the substance that colors, or fails to color, the structures and objects that surround us—and what the collective impulse toward white paint can tell us about culture, politics, and individual desire,” the publisher’s description states, in part.

The idea for the book originated with the Ivy League professor’s “genuine and visceral dislike of white paint – a feeling that is at times overwhelming,” she explained in a 2021 video for Creative Capital Foundation on YouTube.

But Walters pushed back on the idea that her emotional response is “possibly irrational.”

“As I tried to understand why my response to white paint was so strong, I discovered numerous examples of the way that it figured into systems of erasure, exclusion, violence, and the masking of power in the social and natural world,” she said in the video.

Most of the examples she gave linked white paint to racism.

In one, white supremacists splattered white paint outside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas in 2018, and, in another, white paint was used to vandalize a 100th anniversary memorial gallery to the Tulsa race massacre in 2021.

She also mentioned a rainbow crosswalk for “LGBTQIA+ persons” in New Brunswick, Canada being painted over with white paint in an “act of intolerance.”
“I hope to encourage the reader to think about how practices of decoration and adornment might allude to hidden narratives of power, whether or not they recognize them as being so,” she said in the video.

Haven’t we been here before though? In December of 2023, Red State’s Mike Miller wrote: ‘Interior Race Theory:’ Your Home Is Likely ‘Racist,’ White People.

According to interior designer Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah, people can creatively resist “structures of domination in their homes by challenging themselves to think about the various ways that politics are embedded into the built environment and encouraging more ‘racial wellness’ within the spaces they create” — particularly concerning the objects they display.

Iyamah also warns that people of color shouldn’t emulate white people in the interior design of their homes.

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The Use of the Color White

You knew we’d get around to this, right?

In addition to the unforgivable sin of decorating a home with “racist objects” like “mammy jars, colonial busts, war memorabilia, and Confederate flags,” Iyamah argues that the use of white paint is just as “racist.”

The use of the color white has been weaponized to symbolize purity…. There’s [sic] a lot of ways that this theory can deconstruct conservative values that really align with whiteness.

So there you have it. Before you buy that next can of white paint to, say, repaint your kitchen, remember: the color white has been “weaponized to symbolize purity.”

Not to mention, weaponized to attack the socialist founders of modern architecture, who were obsessed with white on white buildings for the sake of minimalism. I don’t think they were intending their work to be coded as white supremacism, but given their ideological leanings in the 1930s and ’40s, perhaps Walters and Iyamah are on to something. From Bauhaus to David Duke’s House?

Or, as Northern Barbarian tweets, “Just when you think they couldn’t get weirder.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll