September 21, 2026

“WE’LL SEE,” INDEED:

Posted at 11:24 am by Stephen Green

REPORT: Paramount to Settle Lawsuits, Paving Way for Warner Bros. Merger.

● Paramount Skydance Corp. has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

● The settlement includes terms such as independent editorial boards for CBS and CNN, and a financial penalty if the company fails to distribute 30 films per year in theaters.

● The agreement would spare Paramount from having to pay late fees to Warner Bros. and paves the way for one of the largest mergers in Hollywood history.

“Independent editorial boards for CBS and CNN?” Jeff Bezos smiles: Bezos told Trump the Washington Post was his worst investment before slashing staff: ‘People there are terrible.’

Posted at 11:14 am by Ed Driscoll

DEM-SOCS SEEM NAT-SOCS EVERYWHERE:

Meanwhile:

Prominent Abdul El-Sayed supporter and former DNC member Liano Sharon, a signatory of the “Michigan Jews for Democracy” letter voicing support for El-Sayed, stated today that Haley Stevens should not face the death penalty because, “I don’t support the death penalty, even for neo-Nazis.”

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Sharon did not stop at Haley Stevens; he also implicated Michigan Democrats Elissa Slotkin, Gary Peters, Debbie Stabenow, and Shri Thanedar.

When I asked him if he thought Vice President Kamala Harris was a “neo-Nazi,” he told me, “It is fair to say that her conduct meets the definition of that term.”

Harris is campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan next week.

And of course, in 2024, Harris, in the midst of her strength through “Joy” campaign, was quick to assign the mantle of National Socialism to her opponent. In October of 2024,Kamala was comparing Trump to Hitler (while aggressively seeking endorsements from Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, who were Hitler from 2001 to 2008):

Yesterday, V.P. Harris compared President Trump to Hitler,  “Donald Trump is out for unchecked power. He wants a military like Adolf Hitler had, who will be loyal to him, not our Constitution. He is unhinged, unstable, and given a second term, there would be no one to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses.”

The V.P.’s comment comparing Trump to Hitler indicates she doesn’t care about minimizing the horrors of the Holocaust or she is an imbecile incapable of understanding.

Her comments were based on a story in the leftist magazine The Atlantic reporting that Trump’s former chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, called Trump a “fascist” and recalled his admiration for Nazi generals. Kelly also raised concerns about Trump’s recent threats to use the military against “the enemy from within.”

Flashback: Are Democrats Whitewashing Hitler with Lame Attacks on Trump?

In the future, everyone will be National Socialist for 15 minutes – and the future is now.

Posted at 10:51 am by Ed Driscoll

SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Brandon Johnson’s So-Called Progressive Equity Agenda Is a Potemkin Village That’s Hurting the Black Community.

The massive increase in school spending hasn’t translated into improved educational outcomes or choices. Spending over $32,000 per student — a 44 percent increase in per-pupil spending — has improved neither the schools themselves nor school choices for lower-income families, overwhelmingly Black. Johnson’s school board presided over the systematic lowering of academic standards and a return to social promotion, as accountability for poor academic performance was abandoned. The district has even stopped ranking schools by academic performance.

As the quality of schools has degraded, the Johnson-controlled school board has worked to strengthen the teacher union’s monopoly on education — successfully opposing both the extension of the state’s private-school scholarship program for low-income families and the state’s opting into a federal scholarship program. The latter forgoing hundreds of millions of dollars in education support for public- and private-school families alike.

Meanwhile, the teacher’s union has been exerting pressure on the district and state legislature to degrade and ultimately eliminate public school choice.

I’d just add that increases in per-pupil spending are largely illusory. Sure, the districts get more money, but it mostly goes to administration with very little reaching the pupils.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

I MEAN, SHE ISN’T WRONG ABOUT THEFT BEING A QUALIFIER FOR BLUE-CITY PUBLIC OFFICE:

Posted at 10:22 am by Stephen Green

THE LAST WORD ON GREENLAND: NATO Froze Over.

In one stroke, the agreement solves the U.S.’s two biggest Greenland problems: the deal stands even if Greenland ever becomes independent, and it reportedly gives U.S. veto power over Chinese or Russian involvement in the island’s affairs. To the Times, this is a dismal failure: “the agreement fell well short of Mr. Trump’s longstanding demand of total control over Greenland.”

He got the bases, the ban, the veto, and forever, and the Times marked him down for not also getting the gift shop or inheriting Greenland’s welfare state.

But in the very same story, the Times also reported that the announced terms include: a larger U.S. military presence and a build permit; a ban on non-NATO bases or military presence; full flyover rights; continued effect after a future Greenlandic independence; and a U.S. approval right over sensitive Russian or Chinese investments.

As I have explained before at painful length, Trump’s public demands to buy Greenland were a negotiating anchor. Under the announced deal, Denmark “wins” by keeping sovereignty while simultaneously giving the U.S. everything we need. Without having to “buy” anything. It was a masterstroke of negotiation.

Denmark still holds the deed to Greenland, but the US now holds the key — in perpetuity.

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTER CONTINUES APACE:

The old center-left SPD and center-right CDU got barely more than 40% between them.

Posted at 9:20 am by Stephen Green

HYPOCRISY IS THE SMALL COIN OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICS:

Posted at 8:59 am by Glenn Reynolds

“WHAT WILL BRING WORLD WAR III?” “IT’LL PROBABLY BE SOME DAMN FOOL THING IN THE BALTICS.”

Posted at 8:50 am by Glenn Reynolds

LOS ANGELES: Dead Last In Housing Affordability.

Los Angeles spends a lot of taxpayer money on affordable housing, $399,228,000 in state funding and $1,919,897,000 in federal money for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Given all that spending, how does Los Angeles rank nationwide in housing affordability? Dead last.

Thanks to gobs of government spending, armies of regulators, and the tireless efforts of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles has managed to make itself the least affordable city in America! A fine demonstration of what the Democrat Party can do to a city if they just run it long enough.

If Angelenos want to choose another direction… tough. The mayoral election runoff is between a Cuban-trained closet socialist, or an India-born, out-of-the-closet socialist.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green

CHANGE:

Posted at 8:18 am by Stephen Green

YOU DO NOT DESPISE THE MEDIA ENOUGH: The $6.7 Billion DOGE Headline Is True. It Also Leaves Out Half the Story. “The $6.7 billion figure is an estimated one-time cost of removing workers from the federal payroll. OPM Director Scott Kupor has said the Deferred Resignation Program is expected to save more than $20 billion every year because those salaries disappear after the employees leave.”

Posted at 8:03 am by Stephen Green

ONG0ING WAVES OF MASS HYSTERIA ARE HOW DEMS MAINTAIN POWER:

Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds