March 9, 2026
BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 9. “Back before American journalists became self-licking ice cream cones, war reporting used to include maps, unit movements, logistics, combat reports from journalists embedded with U.S. units, etc. The BBC still seems to do a little of that, but I’m not seeing that from American outlets, maybe because it’s hard work. They don’t even seem to be bothering to tell ChatGPT to do it for them. Hence these roundups to fill the gap.”
OH, CANADA: “One out of every 20 deaths in Canada is now caused by the government’s assisted suicide program.”
“What’s even more shocking is how fast the deaths are approved.”
METAPHOR ALERT:
It’s absolutely perfect…
A liberal man in NYC yelling about how everyone is welcome, as a Muslim man yells "Allahu Akbar!" and uses him as a literal springboard to throw a homemade bomb.
The West’s suicidal empathy on video. https://t.co/d0CeWGvAiO
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) March 9, 2026
TERRORISM IS MOSTLY RICH KIDS LARPING:
Look at that house
Look at it again (when home ownership is out of reach to too many native born Americans)
Don’t ever let them tell you it’s poverty and desperation that drives people to terrorism
Absolute and complete lie
— self-radicalized Reince Niebuhr🍪 🇺🇸🧊🦁🐶 (@ReinceNiebuhr) March 9, 2026
BUT OF COURSE:
Fun fact: In 1996, Barack Obama won his first elected office (Illinois state Senate) by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot.
One of his tactics for disqualifying them was to challenge signatures on his opponents' petitions by married women who signed using the wrong… pic.twitter.com/nZaqrR0kzj
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) March 9, 2026
POSTMODERN FEMINISTS ONLY SUPPORT WOMEN WITH NEUROTIC DELUSIONS OF OPPRESSION, OR “WOMEN” WITH A Y CHROMOSOME:
Where is noted women’s rights activist Megan Rapinoe on the Iranian women’s soccer story? She’s all in on “chicks” with dicks being heroes of women’s soccer, you’d think she could find time to speak out on the Iranian soccer women and the danger they are facing.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 9, 2026
ENDORSED:
Mom and dad need to be found and held accountable — same as we have started doing for parents of school shooters https://t.co/WVJT1HVpAS
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) March 9, 2026
MATT TAIBBI EXCLUSIVE: The FBI’s Secret Stash Finally Uncovered.
A Federal Bureau of Investigation task force has begun excavating the separate set of books FBI keeps using an inaccessible “prohibited access” file designation, according to multiple government sources. Though an internal fight over how to handle the files continues, embattled FBI Director Kash Patel has assigned personnel to examine decades of hidden history, Racket News has learned, with some files already turned over to Congress.
“This is it — the deep state,” one of the sources said.
Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, whose work with whistleblowers and pressure across years was key to prying prohibited access files loose, expressed cautious optimism.
“If it weren’t for whistleblower disclosures to my office, the very existence of the FBI using ‘Prohibited Access’ files for some investigations would have remained in the dark,” he said. “I’ve asked Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel to turn over certain Prohibited Access records to Congress. I’ve received some, but am still waiting on others. I urge the DOJ and FBI to keep digging – which previous administrations apparently didn’t make any effort to do – so that the facts can come to light. The FBI’s secret stash of records is scandalous.”
Needless to say, read the whole thing.
NOT A MONTY PYTHON SKETCH, THIS IS MAMDANI’S NYC:
This really is an all time photo. A protestor shouting about the pros of immigration is interrupted by an Islamic terrorist throwing a bomb jumping over him. pic.twitter.com/3TyBfewCYT
— memetic_sisyphus (@memeticsisyphus) March 9, 2026
Then there’s this… which is still not a Python bit:
He's coming out harder over peaceful protest than he is at guys throwing incendiary devices outside his house, https://t.co/XGGhoYgs5D
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 9, 2026
You can’t make this stuff up, and in America’s blue zones, you don’t have to.
SARAH ANDERSON: The Shield of the Americas Summit’s Five Biggest Losers.
AT AMAZON, Shop the lowest price in 365 days. #CommissionEarned
WHACK-A-MULLAH:
Important possible scenario:
There is a chance that Mojtaba is in fact dead, and that the regime deliberately selected a dead man as SL.
Why would they do that? In the hopes that israel goes looking for a ghost while ignoring the real decision makers. A distraction.
His… pic.twitter.com/BlT9sDGKPo
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) March 9, 2026
PRIVACY: Calif. lawsuit accuses Meta of sending nude video from AI glasses to workers.
The company pitches its glasses, with their small cameras that have raised some privacy concerns, as safe: “Designed for privacy, controlled by you.” In late February, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, or SvD, published an investigation that said Kenyan subcontractors end up seeing deeply personal footage from the glasses — including bank cards, people changing and people having sex. A new federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday points to the article and accuses Meta of false advertising, fraud and breach of contract.
“Consumers purchased these Glasses believing Meta’s privacy assurances,” the complaint says. “They did not, and could not reasonably, understand that their bedrooms, bathrooms, families, bodies, and more would be exposed to strangers around the world.”
Meta is still analyzing the lawsuit and did not answer SFGATE’s specific questions about why private video might end up at data labeling offices in Kenya. Spokesperson Chris Sgro told SFGATE, “Unless users choose to share media they’ve captured with Meta or others, that media stays on the user’s device.”
Maybe, maybe not — but those glasses are still creepy.
BIGOTRY ON PARADE: NJ college revises policy after it banned funds to Christian Club.
THOSE FIRST SEVEN WORDS ARE EVERGREEN: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico.
In a moment we should have seen coming, New York Times columnist David French has just gushed out a shameless celebration of Talarico’s insane nonsense, every word of which should qualify the worst op-ed prostitute in America for urgent psychiatric intervention. Here’s a whole paragraph: “Or, to put it another way, Talarico is one of the few openly Christian politicians in the United States who acts like a Christian, and by acting like a Christian he reveals a profound contrast with so many members of the MAGA Christian movement that’s dominated American political life for 10 years.”
A challenge: Find the evidence French offers for the claim that Talarico “acts like a Christian.” He cites some speeches, but speeches aren’t actions. How, in David French’s conception, does James Talarico live like a Christian, by his actions, and what does he think that means? Hang onto this point, because we’ll be coming back to it.
But then go on to the characterization of MAGA as a Christian movement, full stop, as if no one would argue. Quick: Name the top three speeches Donald Trump has made in which he used the Bible as an argument for his political program. Discuss, in detail, the specific policy influence of Trump’s pastor, who you should be able to name if we’re talking about a Christian nationalist ideologue. Or, as a shortcut, just show the evidence French has ever presented to prove that MAGA is primarily theological, and that Trump’s first instinct is to steer by religious faith. French doesn’t argue this, because he can’t. He just says it. It’s a noise he makes, endlessly. It has no meaning of any kind.
Read the whole thing.
GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Virginia Dems Force ‘Insurrection’ Label on Jan. 6 in Classrooms.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: George Washington University promotes ‘Reproductive Justice History is Black History’ event.
NEXT!
🚨 BREAKING: IRANIAN AIR FORCE GENERAL KILLED
Mohsen Darrebaghi, an Iranian Air Force Brigadier General, has reportedly been killed.
According to initial reports, Darrebaghi played a role in coordinating operations targeting U.S. and Israeli forces.
His death marks another… pic.twitter.com/QwGTyYvkS2
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) March 9, 2026
THE KING RALPH SCENARIO: Israel will target ‘every successor’ appointed by Iran’s Islamic regime, IDF warns. “We want to tell you that the hand of the State of Israel will continue to pursue every successor and every person who seeks to appoint a successor. We warn all those who intend to participate in the successor selection meeting that we will not hesitate to target you, either. This is a warning!”
RED STATE/BLUE STATE: While California legislators continue to try to overturn Prop 209 with their ACA7 bill, Iowa legislators are moving in the opposite direction. The lower house there recently passed a bill that would repeal various affirmative action policies, some of which were adopted in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
A CALL FOR DECENCY THAT DEMOCRATS WILL IGNORE: Jesse Jackson’s son blasts Obama, Biden for using father’s memorial to take shots at Trump.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Freedom Fever Is Catching, and Cuba Might Get It Next. “If hope is indeed growing in the island communist cesspool, it could very well be the X factor that has been missing all of these decades. OK, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have a lot to do with everything, but hope can be so powerful when people who have been oppressed for far too long finally hit a liberation tipping point.”
“AMERICA AND PUBLIC DISORDER”:
We don't have public restrooms because they'd be trashed in days.
We don't build bus stops because they'd become homeless shelters.
We don't have dense walkable cities because nobody wants to be accosted by strangers.
This is because we have chosen to accept public disorder,… pic.twitter.com/9o8YnMOPLA
— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) March 9, 2026
You can read Chris Arnade’s full Substack article here.
