JOSH HAMMER: America Has Not Learned the Right Lessons From Charlie Kirk’s Murder. “The assassination of Charlie Kirk — like the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life and the cold-blooded killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson — was welcomed with glee by many on the far Left. It was a grisly reminder of the leftist violent streak that goes back as far as the guillotine of revolutionary France.”

Related:

nothing to see here, just the @ACLU celebrating Charlie Kirk's death at a fundraiser. pic.twitter.com/92IV4QyIKx

— Sensurround (@ShamashAran) September 12, 2026

THAT’S NOT INCREDIBLE. NARRATIVE-ENFORCEMENT IS MADDOW’S JOB:

Incredible. Rachel Maddow didn’t push back on Karen Bass AT ALL as she calls the Palisades Fire investigation a waste of time & resources. Lady…6K homes burned, hundreds of people died, and you illegally deleted all of your messages. Integrity is dead. pic.twitter.com/y9Z5K22EZh

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 13, 2026

DON’T GET COCKY:

I'll be the first to admit the GOP has been shit

But Trump has been amazing

And that's why I will Vote Red up and down the ballot in November

I want to position him for as much success as possible during his final two years

— Doog (@doogadoo11) September 13, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: What Happens When We Elect People Who Hate America to Congress? This. “Yeah, elections sure do have consequences. Given the moribund state of the Republican Party in New York City, two socialists, Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez, are virtually certain to enter the House of Representatives next January, and they’re already excitedly making plans for the damage they’re going to do to the nation’s largest city, and the nation as a whole, once they get there.”

WARNING BEFORE THE LINK: ONCE AGAIN, THE PEOPLE WHO STRIP DOWN ARE NEVER THE ONES YOU WANT TO SEE NAKED. Spirit passenger strips down, flashes breasts in front of fellow fliers during airport meltdown.

Also, Spirit Airlines? Natch.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A BOOK PROMO FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

KATYH GYNGELL SUMS UP:  My Week in Review: Twenty Five Suicidal Years For The West.

(Oh, honey, the West was suicidal long before that.)

NO WONDER DEMS WERE SO AVID TO KEEP THAT LOCKDOWN GOING:  California Man Sentenced for Laundering $46 Million in COVID-19 Fraud.

NO WONDER ALASKA DEMS TRIED TO RUN AN ‘INDEPENDENT’ RINGER FOR SULLIVAN:  Dan Sullivan Just Handed Mary Peltola a Debate Beatdown.

IT’S A TWOFER: ALEXANDRIA GIVES CHARLIE THE FINGER AND THE TAXPAYERS GET FLEECED:  This Virginia City Seems OK Blowing Taxpayer Dollars on a Gross Anti-Charlie Kirk Display.

FROM LIFEBOAT FOUNDATION:  If Nobody Builds It, Everybody Dies: Why Pausing AI is the Real Existential Threat.

ALSO CORRECT:  The Deconstruction of Scotty as an Indictment of Our Times. Competence is invisible on screen. What fills the gap reveals what the culture has lost.

I’D LIKE TO BE SKEPTICAL ABOUT THIS:  What if the largest experiment on human beings in history is a failure? A report from an Indiana life insurance company raises serious concerns.

UNLESS HE CAN PROVE IT, IT COULD BE PARALLEL DISCOVERY:  OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT:  Other People’s Words, Sept. 2026.

I HAVE TO SAY TOLERANCE SHOULD GO BOTH WAYS:  Guest Author: Hillbilly on Religious Tolerance and Mosques in Your Neighborhood.

HARD TO TELL, BUT THE COVIDIOCY WAS AN ATTACK ON US BY OUR OWN INSTITUTIONS:  What Event Was More Catastrophic – Covid or 9-11?  One might argue the government’s RESPONSE to both events was equally devastating. Basically, the experts and our ‘leaders’ made things far worse than they needed to be.

APPARENTLY ONLY THE ‘RIGHT’ SORT OF PEOPLE CAN DONATE TO CAMBRIDGE:  I set up a scholarship for students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, only for Cambridge to accuse me of “racism”.

OTHER BUREAUCRATS WOULD REALLY LIKE THIS ALSO:  Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos. The clips can ‘invite ridicule’ of public officials.

Including ours.

THE PEOPLE TELLING YOU AI IS DANGEROUS HAVE FAILED AT EVERY PREDICTION:  This was obviously true as soon as the early LLM systems a few years ago became good enough that if you tried Eliezer Yudkowsky’s stupid “get my mother out of the burning building” thought experiment on them, they explained how they would reasonably rescue her rather than (say) ejecting her at mach 3 into a wall which was what he claimed they might do just as easily. Once you could type into an AI “if you needed to save my mother from a burning building, what would you do” and a reasonable answer popped out, it was clear that this particular problem was no longer at the top of the list.

X-cancel.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX launches 3 telecom satellites to orbit on 700th Falcon mission of all time.

PERSONALLY I HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN ROCKET LAB BASED ON PAST PERFORMANCE: Rocket Lab protests NASA’s decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract.

HMM: Experiment Tested Out-of-Body Experiences. Two Reported Seeing Things Scientists Can’t Explain.

UGH: A Hidden Form of Heart Failure Is Leaving Millions Breathless.