FUNNY HOW THAT HAPPENS:  Longstanding NYC migrants pushed out of jobs by newcomers: ‘Get the f—k out of here’.

YEAH, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT – THE TIME TO OBJECT WAS WHEN THAT FIRST MIDNIGHT PLANE LOAD ARRIVED:  ‘Absolutely unsustainable’:  Hochul calls on Biden to fix NYC migrant shelter crisis.

DON’T WORRY AMERICA! IT PROBABLY WON’T START PRION DISEASE:  FDA Responds to Reports of DNA Contamination in COVID Vaccines.

THE UNVACCINATED WERE FOUND TO HAVE SLIGHTLY LOWER RISK:  Vaccination Offers ‘No Meaningful Protection’ Against Long COVID: Study.

REMEMBER THIS NEXT TIME SOME BLUE STATE MAYOR OR GOVERNOR COMPLAINS ABOUT ‘MADMEN’ BUSSING IN MIGRANTS:  Biden’s DHS let 200,000 illegal immigrants fly directly into 43 cities.

3 OUT OF 4 AMERICANS AGREE:  Voters: Biden’s America becoming a ‘police state’.

Stolen elections have consequences.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHOULD THINK LESS OF WHAT THEY EXPECT FROM THE PRESS AND MORE OF WHAT TAXPAYERS THINK OF THEM:  Controlling the press in Fairfax County.

THE BIDENS ARE LIKE AN OCTOPUS OF CORRUPTION:  Hunter Biden Has Entered the Bob Menendez Indictment.

WHOSE KIDS ARE THEY, ANYHOW?  Education Secretary’s Comments About Parents Are Extremely Concerning.

ABOUT TIME:  Pushback: California county sued for using cellphones to track movements of church-goers.

YOU KNOW IT, I KNOW IT, PEOPLE LIVING IN CAVES KNOW IT:  Something Wicked This Way Comes.

WAR:

Russian Black Sea Fleet Hq reported destroyed. CINC killed.https://t.co/amaLKP4LkI

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 22, 2023

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: A Victorian Empire (A Poor Man at the Gate Series, Book 14).

LOL, THE WAPO HAS BEEN REDUCED TO A SHELL OF ITS FORMER SELF. ONCE IT BROUGHT DOWN PRESIDENTS. NOW, WELL. . .

For Immediate Release: pic.twitter.com/G7QSlGGnKD

— Dave Portnoy (@stoolpresidente) September 23, 2023

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Chinese launch startup’s rocket fails during satellite launch. Rocketry is about learning through iterative failure.

CDR SALAMANDER: My Grandfather’s Navy.

We are indebted to independent scholar Charles “Buckey” Grimm for identifying this 11-minute piece of the celebrated “lost” three-reel documentary U.S. Navy of 1915, produced by the Lyman H. Howe Company. (The piece had formerly been known only as “U.S. Navy Fragment.”) The film was made with the full support of the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, who believed in the power of motion pictures to convince isolationists of the importance of building a strong American navy. A former newspaperman who knew the value of publicity, Daniels allowed Howe’s camera crew remarkable shipboard access. The results show sailors as they go about their day—doing repairs, cleaning the deck, exercising, as well as demonstrating naval might. The film drew praise as capturing “the pulse-beat of the complex life that throbs through our dreadnoughts from reveille to ‘taps.’”

Video at the link.

POOR EUROPE. THEY DON’T KNOW ANY BETTER.

The European mind cannot comprehend that the largest European soccer stadium would be the 9th largest American college football stadium pic.twitter.com/Gw8mR2lEJu

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 20, 2023

I’VE SEEN THE DISTRICT COURT OPINION — HE’S PRETTY ACID REGARDING THE NINTH CIRCUIT: BREAKING: California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban Ruled Unconstitutional Under Bruen.

The opinion is here.

WHO’S YOUR DADDY, CANADA? ” In 2010, about 80 percent of the sperm used by Canadian women was provided by American men. In 2022, it was reported that 95 percent of sperm donations in Canada were imported.”

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM MICHAEL WOLFF: “This is absurd…. He never touched my dog, obviously…. It’s totally made up. Ridiculous actually.”

You have to wonder — did they used to lie less, or did we just never know about it when they did?

A NEGLECTED FACTOR IN THE FALL OF CIVILIZATIONS: “Civilizations fall because their leadership abandons the problem-solving function that is central to any effective elite.”

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Paramount+ Yanks Russell Brand Comedy Special; Look Whose Movies Are Still Streaming.

A GOOD POLICY YEAR-ROUND: Israeli Police Encourage Licensed Gun Owners to Carry During High Holidays.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab suffers launch failure.

Rocket Lab’s string of 20 consecutive successful launches ended Tuesday when the company’s Electron rocket failed to deliver a small commercial radar imaging satellite into orbit, Ars reports. The problem occurred on the upper stage of the Electron rocket about two and a half minutes after liftoff from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. This was the fourth time a Rocket Lab mission has failed in 41 flights. A small commercial radar surveillance satellite from Capella Space was destroyed when the rocket crashed.

Not great, not terrible … The Electron rocket has a 90 percent success rate over its 41 missions to date, which is still better than Rocket Lab’s competitors in the market for dedicated launches of small satellites. Aside from Rocket Lab, Astra and Firefly Aerospace are the only other active companies in the new wave of commercial small satellite launch startups that have achieved orbit. Virgin Orbit launched a handful of successful missions, but that company went out of business earlier this year.

It’s a tough business — and a young one, too. Better luck next launch, fellas.