CHANGE (IT BACK): Newsmax Buys Historic Miami Anti-Communist Radio Station from Soros-Linked Network.

Radio industry outlets reported this weekend, and the Newsmax network confirmed on Monday, that Newsmax Radio LLC purchased two major Miami radio stations — WAQI Radio Mambí and WQBA — from Latino Media Network, an organization with ties to left-wing political entities whose purchase of the historic anti-communist stations caused an uproar in 2022.

Both radio stations had for decades broadcast anti-communist talk radio programs for the local Hispanophone listenership, which is a plurality Cuban and Cuban-American. Radio Mambí in particular was known for hosting popular conservative radio personalities and giving a platform to conservative and anti-communist ideas. Organizations advocating for freedom for Cuba from its communist dictatorship heralded Radio Mambí in 2022 as a critical pillar of the Miami community’s political ecosystem and expressed concern that its takeover by an organization with left-wing associations would dilute, or potentially silence, those voices.

More anticommunism, please.

FROM “THE DEATH OF EXPERTISE” TO “THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF EXPERTISE” IN AMAZINGLY SHORT ORDER:

THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR:

THAT WAS PROBABLY INEVITABLE:

HMM: Lutnick stalled Trump’s Nvidia–China chip curbs after Oval talks.

On Thursday, as the spy scandal rocked the administration, Lutnick met in the Situation Room with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

During the meeting, Bessent confronted Lutnick about why his department has resisted implementing the export controls, particularly on Megaspeed, the company at the center of the spy scandal. The group sided with Bessent.

Lutnick appeared to agree, but then muttered under his breath, “I need to check with the president.”

Friction point: Lutnick’s seemingly innocuous comment raised concerns, the sources said, because officials have repeatedly believed the Commerce Department would impose the export controls, only to have nothing happen.

Not good, if true.

NO. JUST NO.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Slipping Off America’s Leash.

Ukraine may have found a new internet tool for targeting Russia’s energy infrastructure. That’s good news for people who like punishing aggressors, and bad news for people who hate expensive diesel and inflation.

I am both of those people — real life is messy like that.

War is even worse, so let’s take a look at what’s going on over there, even though this week’s essay isn’t really about the Russo-Ukraine War. But it’s a good place to start.

Tons more at the link.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Anduril says its first satellite can see adversaries maneuver in orbital night.

Funded with Anduril’s internal capital, the company’s oven-sized satellite launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in July with a package of tech demo payloads: an edge-compute processor, a power-management system adaptable to different mission types, and a long-wave infrared space sensor capable of detecting other objects in orbit.

Anduril reported on the success of the tech demo mission Tuesday. The company’s satellite, named Anduril-216, flies about 590 km (366 mi) above Earth, spending about one-third of each orbit in darkness. Anduril-216’s night passes allow its infrared imager to shine.

“This is a unique sensor that allows us to take imagery in long-wave [infrared],” said Gokul Subramanian, Anduril’s senior vice president of engineering. “What’s unique about that is it’s got a huge dynamic range. It has very low solar exclusion, so we’re blocked by the Sun very rarely, and we can see things in full dark.”

I wonder what Subramanian isn’t telling us…