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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Having Xi for Tea

A day after Trump stomped through the UN, China's President Xi arrived in the US to be met planeside by President Trump. Liberals are up in arms that he would do the courtesy. News Wax, Xi Kicking Off D.C. Visit With Rare Planeside Welcome From Trump.

Nick Arama at RedState thinks the US Delegation Has Perfect Response to Iranian President's UN Speech, Then Rubio Finishes Him "The U.S. delegation had the perfect response — they walked out of the room when Pezeshkian dared to try that spin, telling him and the rest of the world exactly what they thought of that lie. ... Rubio said he thought the Iranians were "under this illusion that Democrats were going to win in November and the president will no longer be able to do things against them." PJM's Stephen Kruiser says It's a Shame Trump Couldn't Shut Down the UN for Good. News Wax claims Munitions Account for $28.1 Billion of $43.6 Billion US-Iran War Cost and Board of Peace to Unveil $2.45 Billion Gaza Recovery Plan. They could just shower the place with gold coins.

Also at News Wax, Mark Meadows to Newsmax: Greenland Deal 'Snuck Up on All of Us'. Am Con asks Is the Greenland Deal a Win? "Not for the reasons the White House is saying" Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand, "Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://whitehouse.gov.../), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it. Long story short - which may surprise some - the Danes lied the most: Trump is pretty much correct in saying that this new deal grants the US control of Greenland. Let's look into what changed compared to the 1951 deal ... So, to sum up:- The US secured a permanent military foothold that even an independent Greenland would inherit whether it likes it or not - The US now has veto power over any non-NATO military presence in Greenland, and over who can invest in its strategic infrastructure and resources (beyond NATO and the EU) - Denmark signed away its say over the principle of new US bases, with only the right to discuss the "implementation details" - Danish authorities no longer set the rules for US military movement across the island - And all of it is now justified by the defense of "the American continent" I don't know in which universe this even remotely "recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination," as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen put it (https://stm.dk/e...). Yes, the preamble of the text cynically "reaffirms" Danish sovereignty but, in my book, when you let a foreign country put bases on your soil, move its troops without following your rules and veto who else can come in, in perpetuity, after it spent two years threatening to take you by force, the word for that is anything but "recognized sovereignty""

PJM's Sarah Anderson is not happy, Venezuela: Trump and Delcy Pose for a Picture. María Corina Machado Denied Entry. At Hat Hair John Sexton considers Is Another Russian Mobilization Coming? and Beege Welborn reports Mr. Trump Meets the Incredibly Squirmy Burnham.

From VodkaPundit at Insty, MAKE OF THIS WHAT YOU WILL: Mark Kelly Says US military ‘doesn’t need more testosterone.’ "“The retired Navy captain rebuked the secretary as ‘a guy who runs around on the stage, yelling about killing people and maximum lethality and testosterone’ during an appearance on MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe’ show.” Tell that to these guys: Airmen can’t get enough of new, warlike basic training, leaders say."

PJM's Scott Pinsker thinks AI and Data Centers Are Politically Losers. That’s Why Trump and the GOP Should Go All In and VodkaPundit says Hey, Xi — Good Luck Keeping AI on a Communist Leash. At News Wax, Gallup Finds Strong Support for AI Globally. Ken Klippenstein reports Feds Target AI Critics As “Foreign Agents” "Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers." Reason finds California Wants to Write America's AI Rules, "Newsom's expert panel has two months to consider new AI rules, including "kill switches," that could spread nationwide." At Politico, Democrat blocks fast-track passage for data center ratepayer bill. "Overwhelming House approval on the Ratepayer Protection Act wasn’t enough to secure quick passage in the Senate." Showing they want issues, not solutions.

Eric Spracklen @EricSpracklen, "This might be the most brutal and deserved community note I’ve ever seen." Roger Kimball at Am Great smells something, The Political Weather Is Changing, "There is something in the air—a budding crispness, fresh scents, valedictory echoes—that tells us that a change is nigh." Matt Margolis at PJM notices Fake Trump Approval Numbers Are Coming. Like, REALLY Fake. Drew @AllegedlyDrew, "The primary elections are when you remove RINOs. The general elections are when you prevent communism." If only it were that simple.

PJM's Rick Moran hears Hospitals Strike Deal With Trump Administration to Shutter Youth Gender Affirming Care Facilities. WBIR, cites a Source: President Trump will be attending Texas vs. Tennessee game, "President Trump will attend the historic Texas vs. Tennessee SEC game at Neyland Stadium, as excitement builds nationwide for this first-ever clash." Liberals whine.

Breitbart Bus Dig approves of The Fed's Secular Acelerationist Stance "Even while the American public remains in quite a sour mood about the American economy, the Federal Reserve has become increasingly bullish."

Dave Strom at Hat Hair thinks Hasan Piker Has One Great Virtue... "He inevitably says exactly what he thinks, and by extension, since Democrats love him, tells us what Democrats are really thinking or fantasizing about." Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles, "This is what the Left wants." Quote Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "I will throw you in prison. I want Chinese style communism to happen inside of the democratic party right now. I want to do cultural revolution shit." Hamas Piker just flat out admits he wants to imprison and kill democrats in a literal communist revolution. These are animals." Amy Curtis at TownHall hears 'Everybody Else Can F-Off': Dan Osborn Reveals His True Agenda in Undercover Video "I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration and all of these issues. Then I lose the election," Osborn said, reportedly to a transgender supporter. "It feels good in the moment. At the end of the day, I'm gonna win this election. And then I'll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can f-off." Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "OMG "Independent" candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska Dan Osborn, was just caught on undercover video admitting to TRICKING voters about his views "I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration... Then I lose the election... At the end of the day, I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can F-off.” Nebraska, don't believe a thing this he says. He wants to deceive you and push gender ideology if he wins!" PJM's Stephen Kruiser finds Campaign Poison Kamala Harris Hopes DSA Commies Can Make Her Popular. In a Larry vid at Hat Hair, Hidden Camera Catches Talarico's Mom Planning Move to DC to Keep Him in Line. She probably has more sense than he does.

From Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog Oopsie! Democrat Convicted Felon Drops Bid. Dave Strom, For Some Reason, Liberals Think 'Oops' Is a Good Political Slogan with examples.

Gina Milan @ginamilan_, "HOLY SMOKES! The New York Times reports that a Democratic-aligned group, Project Bullhorn, paid more than 100 creators through SideShift to flood social media with “affordability” content ahead of the 2026 midterms. $25–$30 PER VIDEO. Many didn’t disclose they were being paid. Some weren’t even from the states they claimed to represent. ... NYPo reports a ‘Palestinian Rachel Dolezal’ outed as white woman of ‘significant privilege and wealth’. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en, "Libertarianism has disappeared because it is a sub-species of liberalism, and liberalism is disappearing across the West because people only feel the liberal impulse within the context of a high-trust society (which liberals have destroyed)." Quote The Spectator @TheSpectator, "Libertarians have disappeared from American politics. Their think tanks and magazines are richly endowed but irrelevant, their ideas exhausted. What happened to champions of free markets and free people?" Mediaite whines JD Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force to Boot More Than Half a Million Americans From Obamacare.Deep Leaks. Bob Hoge at RedState highlights A Male Karen Tries to Harass Nick Shirley at Airport, Is Summarily Exposed As Know-Nothing Ignoramus @DeepLeaksHQ, "Since the Obamas are trending, here’s a video of them thanking Harvey Weinstein. Don’t share this This will make Barack and Michelle Obama upset." John Sexton at Hat Hair hears Support for California's Wealth Tax Is Shrinking.

At Da Caller, Jack Smith Violated Constitution To Spy On Republicans In Lawless ‘Arctic Frost’ Investigation, Committee Alleges. News Wax sees Trump DOJ Ramps Up Voter Fraud Enforcement Ahead of Midterms. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "We’re getting wins we didn’t even know we were getting Fergie Chambers, a communist failson heir to the Cox Enterprises fortune, is under federal indictment and is being extradited from Spain He was a big time funder of Antifa." Quote Drop Site @DropSiteNews, "Spain’s Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration’s extradition request against Fergie Chambers—a pro-Palestine American activist and heir to the Cox Enterprises family fortune—to proceed to the Spanish courts." Eric W. @EWess92, "A Wisconsin judge was convicted of a felony-- hiding a criminal accused of domestic assault from immigration enforcement. Bar license revoked? No, not even suspended, per 5-2 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling. The felonious judge's law license is "active" and in "good standing" Can we swap Wisconsin for Alberta?

From Twitchy, ‘Proud Anchor Baby’ Congresswoman Introduces Legislation to Abolish ICE and 'Dismantle' DHS.

At RCP, Natalia Hidalgo Martínez looks at Morocco’s Grey-Zone Strategy in Southern Spain.

MAZE @mazemoore, "2023. Chuck Schumer appears on CNN to discuss a letter that he and Hakeem Jeffries wrote to Rupert Murdoch DEMANDING that Murdoch instruct Fox News hosts to stop spreading "falsehoods." Schumer: We have a right and an obligation to tell Rupert Murdoch and Fox what to do." Jonathan Turley doubt Trump will be able to banish CNN et al from the White House, Fake News or Viewpoint Discrimination: Can the President Ban Disfavored Media? I do too, but it's fun trying. TownHall's Matt Vespa says Not So Fast, My Friend: Lib Hopes of Trump's WH Media Ban Getting Tossed Got Trashed Today. Paul Thacker at RCP, '60 Minutes' Airs Misleading Report on Trump Pardons.

Matt Margolis reports Sunny Hostin Proudly Admits She Single-Handedly Spared a Killer Cannibal From Prison. From Ace, Sonny Hostin is Beaming With Pride About Being the Holdout Juror That Got a Literal Cannibal Killer Off. "A literal cannibal killer killed and then butchered victims and served their meat to the homeless." Dave Strom calls it Main Character Syndrome and Suicidal Empathy: a Toxic Mixture. At Althouse, When Sunny Hostin was the holdout juror: A lesson in insanity. From Twitchy, Where's the Love? The View Asks the Single Most Idiotic Question (yet) About the Clancy Case. Natalie Jean Beisner @NJBeisner, "“How did the marital love end so quickly…in sickness and in health.” Sarah Haines of The View gripes that Patrick Clancy isn’t still married to Lindsay Clancy, the woman who murdered his kids."

Tim O'Brien at PJM says Watch How Fast the Media Disappears This Story of a Black Woman Found Dead by Hanging, after it was determined black men did the hanging.

Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "That would make the world that much freer." Quote Gina Milan @ginamilan_, " OHH BOY! Paramount is reportedly considering asking Elon Musk to join a group of equity investors as it moves forward with its massive Warner Bros. Discovery deal."

Minding the Campus asserts Graduate Schools of Education Are Poisoning the Well. "They need to stop because America’s children are drinking from it."

Althouse discovers The racial inequity of beer gardens. Tom Tiffany @TomTiffanyWI, "David Crowley says beer gardens contribute to “racial inequity” because they are “predominately supported by white users.” Since when did enjoying a cold one become about race?"

Driscoll is ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s the Best Line in the Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Story? "Can the story get any better weirder? You bet it can!" At NRO, The Quiet Dissidence of the Boston Globe. "In the Globe‘s after-the-fact reappraisal of the case, they came as close as the liberal-paper-of-record of Boston could to calling the whole thing bullsh**." Wesley Yang @wesyang, "You see, when you make note of the fact that violence against trans-identified people has gone down under Trump, (and frame this as a welcome development), that is "anti-trans." Being "pro-trans" means terrorizing people into baseless panic over non-existent threats because it leads to more donations flowing to trans NGO's." Quote Colin Wright @SwipeWright, "I legitimately can't stand the lies. Transgender activist Andrea James is upset that @DavidMastio's op-ed was featured on The Boston Globe's front page. "There is a longstanding journalistic convention that newspapers generally keep opinion columns...off the front page.""

A Thursday Tune - Scheißegal

Isabel Gülck (born 11 February 1991), known professionally as Isi Glück, is a German partyschlager singer. Since 2017, she has performed regularly at the Mega-Park in Mallorca and, in winter, at the "Kuhstall" in Ischgl.

Isabel Gülck was born on 11 February 1991 in Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. After attending elementary school in Kiebitzreihe, she completed her secondary school diploma at the Jacob Struve School in Horst (Holstein). This was followed by an apprenticeship as a sports and fitness clerk, then an insurance clerk in her father's company, which she abandoned after the Miss Germany pageant. On 11 February 2012, she won the Miss Germany pageant at Europa-Park Rust. She had previously participated in the Miss Schleswig-Holstein beauty pageant, but was eliminated in the preliminary rounds. She was later crowned Miss Ashampoo. As Miss Germany, she made around 200 appearances until she was replaced by Carolina Noeding on 24 February 2013.

I wish I understood German, but I got my only D ln high school

Calvert County Cuts Critical Area Tree Rule

At the Southern Maryland Chronicle, Calvert Eases Tree Rules in Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, "A little-noticed zoning change cuts the replanting penalty for clearing 30-50% of a critical-area lot from 3-to-1 to 2-to-1 — and skips the usual Board of Appeals variance."

Buried among six routine zoning amendments the Calvert County Planning Commission advanced Tuesday night is a change that cuts one of the county’s environmental protections for land along the Chesapeake Bay: how much replanting property owners must do after clearing trees in the Critical Area.

Under Calvert’s current zoning ordinance, clearing more than 30% of natural vegetation on a lot in a Critical Area Limited Development Area (LDA) requires a variance from the county’s Board of Appeals — and, if granted, replanting three times the area cleared. Text Amendment 2627, approved unanimously by the Planning Commission and now headed to the Board of County Commissioners, creates a new middle tier: clearing between 30% and 50% of a lot’s vegetation in an LDA or LDA3 zone would require only double, not triple, replanting — and would no longer need Board of Appeals approval at all, as long as the clearing is limited to “the minimum amount necessary” for a house, deck, patio, driveway, septic system and a small yard.

“Staff believes the current replacement planting requirement is too burdensome for property owners, and the costs of meeting this requirement can get quite excessive,” a Calvert Planning & Zoning staffer told commissioners, adding that the department “was able to get buy-in from the critical area commission to relax these requirements in these specific circumstances in order to lower the financial burden on property owners.”

No commissioners raised concerns about the environmental trade-off during Tuesday’s hearing, and no members of the public signed up to speak on the amendment — a pattern that held across all six items on the night’s agenda. The commission voted to close the record and recommend adoption without discussion.

The Chesapeake Bay Critical Area — the band of land within 1,000 feet of tidal waters and wetlands — is regulated jointly by local governments and the state’s Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays, which reviews local zoning changes affecting the Critical Area as part of each county’s state-approved program. It is not yet clear from Tuesday’s hearing whether the state commission has formally signed off on this specific change or has only been briefed on it informally; a local text amendment altering Critical Area standards still requires that state review before it can take effect, separate from the county commissioners’ vote.

Seems reasonable to me.

Shocking Finding: Temperature and Competition Affect How Fast Fish Grow

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I'm being sarcastic if you can't hear my tone. USGS, Warmer Temperatures and Disease-Driven Population Declines Can Increase Early Life Growth Rates of Smallmouth Bass

Understanding the factors that affect growth rates of commercially and recreationally important fish species can help fisheries managers make informed stock‑assessment and fishing‑regulation decisions. In this study of smallmouth bass in Pennsylvania rivers, USGS scientists found that warmer temperatures were associated with increased early‑life growth rates, and that growth rates increased following a disease outbreak.

Smallmouth bass (Figure 1) are important gamefish and apex predators in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, yet few studies have assessed why their growth rates vary across locations and over time. Growth rates determine how quickly individuals can reach larger body sizes, which are typically associated with higher survival rates and greater economic benefits than smaller individuals. Numerous environmental and internal factors affect how quickly fish grow, and a lack of information about these factors makes it challenging for fisheries managers to predict how smallmouth bass populations may respond to changing watershed conditions.

The USGS partnered with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission to compile a 36‑year dataset (from 1986 to 2022) comprised of 54,068 individual smallmouth bass measurements collected across ten river reaches in Pennsylvania. The dataset spans a range of temperature and streamflow and includes a major disease outbreak that began in 2005. Using a von Bertalanffy growth model, researchers predicted early‑life growth rates across these different conditions and assessed the effects of temperature, streamflow, population abundance, and disease outbreak on smallmouth bass early‑life growth rates.

Major Findings
Warmer temperatures were associated with increased early‑life growth rates, particularly for populations that did not experience any major disease outbreaks.
A disease outbreak in 2005 was associated with a rapid increase in early‑life growth rates, likely driven by a decrease in population abundance (Figure 1B).
Streamflow showed no significant effect on smallmouth bass early‑life growth rate.

The findings from this study highlight several important factors affecting early‑life growth rates of smallmouth bass. Warmer temperatures can increase early‑life growth rates; however, other studies have shown that warm waters can reduce overall body sizes. Therefore, smallmouth bass populations may grow faster but stop growing at a smaller size in warmer waters. As water temperatures warm, disease outbreaks are expected to become more frequent, and disruptive events – such as the outbreak captured in this study – could play an important role in shaping growth trajectories. Land use and similar landscape‑scale factors can also affect instream conditions and growth rates. By considering these combined influences, managers can better anticipate how population growth is expected to progress, and they can more effectively use current data to inform management strategies.

Really, you needed a study to find that? Then, of course you had to throw in global warming.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Storms the UN

President Trump visited the UN General Assembly yesterday, and it was everything you could hope for. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair calls him, affectionately, the Troll in Chief 'Can You See Me Now?' - Dinking on CNN. Ace is a little cruder, Trump to the UN: S My D and L My Bs, but provides this synopsis of his talk, - Called out the UN for ignoring Christian persecution worldwide while obsessing over America - Demanded every ICC member resign immediately from that rogue anti-American tribunal - Called Communist Cuba a failed state that will fall, then watched officials storm out - Declared there is no human right to illegal immigration, only the right to stay a sovereign nation - Scorched UNESCO globalists for pushing mass migration that destroys Western cultures - Said there is NO global government and there will be NO global taxes while he is president - Bragged that America cut the UN budget 15% and killed over 4,000 bureaucracy jobs - Boasted of the most secure border in American history with ZERO illegal aliens admitted - Declared America is BACK, stronger than ever, and in a GOLDEN AGE after Biden's dark age - Mic-dropped failed globalist leaders: while others talked peace, he MADE peace - Vowed Iran will NEVER get a nuclear weapon and said the Middle East bully is finished - Teased a huge post-election decision: strike a deal, or annihilate the Islamic Republic - Exposed Iran as weak and desperate, not strong, and predicted Iranian terror's end - Slammed cowards and traitors leaking fake "low munitions" claims mid-conflict - Took a victory lap over capturing Maduro and signing the largest oil deal in history - Laid down the Donroe Doctrine: no threats get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere - Refused to apologize for crushing drug cartels, calling them the ISIS of the hemisphere - Locked in permanent Greenland security rights that shut out China, Russia, and adversary investment - Renamed Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence and vowed America stays #1 over China." Whew! If you really want to see it all, sundance at CTH has President Trump 's Speech to United Nations General Assembly, and a lot more: President Trump Signs U.S-Greenland Arctic Security Agreement, President Trump Meets with the Gulf Cooperation Council During UNGA Event, President Trump Participates in a Shield of Americas Event at the United Nations, President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Trump Holds a Bilateral Meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Lady Melania Trump Outlines Plans for Chairman Xi Jinping Official State Visit.

At Hat Hat Hair John Sexton cites Trump on Cuba: 'It Will Fall' and a Larry video, Trump Ripped Iran & Cuba in Fiery UN Speech As They Storm Out of the Room. Sarah Anderson at PJM sees Cuba Storms Out. Delcy Pouts. These Dictatorships Didn't Care for Trump's UN Speech. From News Wax, Trump Targets ICC at UN, Demands Member Nations Quit 'Rogue' Court, Trump Says 'Momentum' Building for Iran Deal at Expanded Mideast Meeting and Mark Meadows to Newsmax: Greenland Deal 'Snuck Up on All of Us'. Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova, "Most European security analysts can pick another job since they were totally wrong on how the Greenland crisis was solved. Gardening for example." Quote Disclose.tv @disclosetv, "NOW - Trump signs trilateral agreement with the PM of Denmark and the PM of Greenland, expanding U.S. military presence in Greenland." From WaEx, State Department clamps down on size of Iran’s UN delegation and ability to splurge on ‘shopping sprees.’

At the Institute for the Study of War, What a Limited Russian Incursion Into Estonia Might Look Like: A Narva Scenario. Rick Moran at PJM wonders Will the U.S. Send Troops to Die for Estonia? Putin Doesn't Think So. Sundance observes Russia Strategic Diesel Supplies Full, Excess Production Now Flowing to “Stans” Central Asia – The Rule of 96. Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz, "If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high: 1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated..." At WaEx, State Department clamps down on size of Iran’s UN delegation and ability to splurge on ‘shopping sprees.’ Trust In Trump 47 @Trustintrump47, "REPORTER: Why would more U.S. troops be sent to the region if ground troops are not being considered for deployment in Iran? SECWAR PETE HEGSETH: “Look, son… this is such a basic military lesson that even a reporter should understand it: Never reveal to your enemy what you are going to do… or what you’re not going to do. And certainly don’t tell them when you plan to surrender. Especially to a coward who hides in bunkers, hoards his missiles like a miser, and prays that the United States will get tired and go home. But let me give you some free advice: the next time you want to ask a question, try not to sound like you’re lobbying for the Iranian regime. It gives a very bad image.”" Sarah Anderson at PJM, Rubio Tells Angry MSM Host, 'U.S. Media Sounds Like It's Rooting for Iran.' For you Harry Potter fans, Hat Hair's Duane Patterson says The Houthis Are the Last Horcrux. After That, the Iran Regime Is Alone. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Huh. The bulk of the casualties in Gaza - by Hamas' own statistics, apparently - are military age males Who'da thunk it." Quote Jeremy Corbin MP, Prime Ministerial Parody @CorbynSnap, "The final analysis of Gaza deaths based on Hamas’ own data is really bloody annoying." Considering they hide behind women and children, that says a lot about the restraint of the Israeli military.

How To Subvert Subversion with Yuri Bezmenov warns us to Beware of CCP Unrestricted Warfare. "Connecting the dots on 10 of the CCP's subversive fronts in America that must be stopped before they inflict crippling irreversible damage." Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks Net Zero Turns Western Countries Into Chinese Satrapies.

Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "There is an Army saying you hear dozens of times when you make full colonel: "Congratulations, that's the last promotion you will ever make based solely on merit." The idea behind that saying is that when it comes time to compete for a 1-star promotion, you need a sponsor, and having a sponsor who sits on the promotion board matters, greatly. That's how we get politicized generals who support racist, anti-American nonsense like DEI. This is a great, great step in replacing politics with merit at our senior ranks. This is what a revolution in military personnel affairs looks like." Quote Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar, "Today, I am announcing the Joint Warfighter Evaluation." John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad, "Oh boy. The Louisiana Maneuvers are returning. ENDORSED!" Now please tell me they’re going to stress logistics HARD. Patton’s tanks stopping at highway gas stations during the 1941 maneuvers exposed a major weakness… and made fuel delivery a top wartime priority." From RCP, Mark Montgomery & Emmerson Overell warn that America Must Be Able to Restore Its Space Power at War Speed.

Hmmm, at the Independent, Venezuela closing in on deal to move $4bn gold reserves from Bank of England to New York.

From NYPo, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says OpenAI bears ‘responsibility’ for Hugging Face hack. Leslie Eastman at LI reports Manufactured AI Panic Hits the Streets, Complete With T-Shirts, Marching Robots. "A look at the “protests” in San Francisco, in OpenAI’s Bellevue office, and Poland." Dave Strom, We Are Always Doomed Because Scared People Demand to Be Saved. Catturd ™ @catturd2, "It's all about scaring you to death so they can control every aspect of your life." Quote Bob Iaccino @Bob_Iaccino, "I’m officially done being scared of every crisis the news tells me I should be scared of. I’ve reached my crisis limit." Tech.org, AMD Crosses $1 Trillion in Market Value for the First Time as AI Chip Stocks Rally. Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Thought about AI controlling bank accounts, access to sex, that kind of thing. To control our behavior. Hadn’t thought about elections. Wait til AI figures out how to start mailing in ballots." Quote Center for Strategic Politics @StratPolitics, "Replying to @StratPolitics 27% of Democrats told us they plan to use AI to figure out how to vote in future elections, with 7% saying they plan to use it "a lot"." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "Too bad we can’t even get voter ID, same day voting, proof of citizenship. Never mind proof of human."Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill, "Absolutely beyond parody. Dartmouth’s provost has been turning in 70-100-percent AI-written work (in academic journals, newspapers, and even in email correspondence!) since LLMs came out, the student paper reports. He even used AI to write an op-ed about how universities are dealing with AI cheating." Polymarket @Polymarket, "JUST IN: Stanford University is accused of using AI to change students’ race & gender while making others appear thinner in advertising, with one student saying he felt “silenced & erased.”"

John Sexton reports Vance Anti-Fraud Task Force Focuses on ACA Enrollment. Ben Smith at LI, USDA Targets 170 NYC Retailers in SNAP Fraud Sweep, “SNAP benefits should go to Americans, not fraudsters or illegal immigrants,” White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud Executive Director Scott Brady said." Breitbart Bus Dig notices Trump Refuses to Launch World War Warsh.

The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial, "REVEALED: More Canadians die from MAID each year than Americans do from gun homicides." Daniel @WVDanielM, "@grok how many gun related homicides were in the United States? Use the newest data from the FBI. How many MAID deaths were in Canada? Use the newest data. Extrapolate those figures into a per-capita basis." Replying to @WVDanielM @TPostMillennial and @grok Grok @grok, "FBI 2025 data: estimated 14,085 total murders, firearms used in 72.3% (~10,183 gun homicides). Canada Health 2024 MAID: 16,499 (newest full official). Per capita: US (~342M pop) ~3.0/100k. Canada (~41.5M) ~39.8/100k." So, on a per capita basis, Canadian government is more than ten times as lethal as American guns. Tom Knighton at BA is happy about Trump's New EO Defends Hunting, Rolls Back Inane Hunting Regulations.

Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC, "People have absolutely no idea the reign of terror we’re headed for if Democrats gain total power. They want Trump dead, and they want everyone who supported him or worked for him in prison. They want our constitutional rights dissolved, and they want the courts packed to facilitate it all. This is an EXTREMELY dark place and I don’t know that there’s any good way out." Quote Center for Strategic Politics @StratPolitics, Replying to @StratPolitics, "We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%." Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen, "60% of Democrats would welcome a … (checks notes) … MILITARY COUP to remove Donald Trump from office. Please don’t tell me these people care a whit about democracy or democratic norms." Gene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy finds an odd one, 39% of Democratic Voters Think Restaurant Industry "Should Be Publicly Owned and Operated." So, they want service like the DMV?

Stephen Kruiser, Republicans Aren't Letting El-Sayed Memory Hole Hasan Piker, nor should they, but it's not enough to swing an election. From the Free Bacon, Meet the 'Jews for Abdul': El-Sayed Ads Feature 'Social Justice' Activists Tied to Group That Excused Oct 7. "Dan Klein, who appeared in an El-Sayed spot in a yarmulke, is a 'community organizer' for Detroit Jews for Justice, while a Rosh Hashanah video featured the Jewish Voice for Peace-tied Shifman family." Jason Bedrick @JasonBedrick, "In 25 years, Todd Beamer's dad never got involved in a political campaign. That's because for the past 25 years, no major candidate had ever campaigned with someone who said America deserved 9/11. Until now." Quote Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer’s dad narrates a new ad attacking Abdul El-Sayed for campaigning with Hasan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11 and was worse than Al-Qaeda. Watch this." At a Sayed presser, Will Hild @WillHild, "Kamala Harris, seemingly 4 vodka sodas deep, goes on a bizarre rant about how "attacks on DEI" are an "attack on maternal care"."

News Wax reports Newsom Donors Scrutinized Over China Contacts. NYPo, Democratic megadonor who gave to Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris linked to murky honeypot spy saga. China, China, China! From the OCR, California tenants suffered 8th-highest rent hikes in US over four decades. "California rent's share of income was second-highest among the states in 2024." Matthew Lilley @MattGLilley, "A bunch of Nobel Prize-winning economists have endorsed California's proposed billionaire wealth tax. I can't oppose them on authority. But I know some academics who can."