IT’S THE GRIFT THAT KEEPS ON GRIFTING:  Covid: the permanent pandemic.

GOOD ON THE BLOCKING. ON THE MOON… CAN NASA BE REFORMED?  NASA blocks Chinese nationals from space programs amid rising US-China rivalry.  The US and China are locked in a new space race to send astronauts to the moon. 

JUST LIKE THE REST OF US:  Speechless.

FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Conservatives pushed back against using “cancel culture” tactics for *years.* Overnight, that has flipped 180 degrees. We’re not talking about big public figures, either. Just normies on social media. I can’t emphasize how big a vibe shift this is. It’s seismic.

And for all the x-less (wondering if life has passed you by…)

IT’S THE TIMES – WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? THEY THINK IT’S THEY’RE WORLD AND WE’RE JUST CLUTTERING IT UP:  The NYT’s Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace.

YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU SUBSIDIZE:  The Archbishop of York misunderstands a recent child poverty report.

WE CAN ONLY DO WHAT WE CAN DO:  I’ve received a lot of messages from well-meaning friends about our personal security. And we have reasonable measures (cameras, guns, etc), but I want to say this, mostly geared towards friends who work in this business.

And for the Xless.

FROM THE INDOMITABLE DATA REPUBLICAN:  Only today, when the consequences of your side’s rhetoric come into view, do you finally protest. That timing tells the story. If you had faced genuine pressure before, you would have condemned the dangerous language your allies have normalized. Instead, you indulged it. And used it to cry victim.

And for all ye x-less.

VICTIMS OF STUPIDITY AND GREED:  Greta Thunberg and the Victim Industrial Complex. (Video)

THEY’D BETTER LEARN TO SWIM, OR THEY’LL SINK LIKE A STONE:  The changing of the tides.

MORE OF THIS IS NEEDED:  A Rogue’s Gallery of Misfits, Users, and Bums. Businessman and Media personality Patrick Bet-David recently appeared on Jubilee to defend Capitalism against 20 socialists. What followed was masterclass on the topic of why socialism fails.

TAKE A DEEP BREATH, EVERYONE:  Beauty matters now, More than ever.

THE WATER IS CHOPPY. AND YET BE NOT AFRAID:  Charlie Kirk.

(LACK OF) CLASS WILL OUT:  Bluesky posters threaten Trump, Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro, immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, sick images show.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER:  Introducing: The Trophy Case. A mega-thread of all of the people Twitter gets fired, updated live as the news comes in. Drop new submissions in the comments below.

AND FOR: The sad x-less.

YES:  72-hour Rule.

AS ALWAYS, THE VOICE OF SANITY:  The Assassination of Charlie Kirk.

THE VICTORIOUS ARMY TAKES THE MOST CASUALTIES DURING MOP-UP:  The Wounded Beast.

ATTENTION ALL OF YOU WITH TIME ON YOUR HANDS:  If you want to directly contribute to holding Democrats accountable for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder, DM me. We need (virtual) manpower.

And for all the X-Less

THE LEFT HAS PLAYED THIS GAME FOR DECADES, AND NOW WANTS TO BE SURPRISED PIKACHU:  States rush to pass new political maps in gerrymandering blitz.

Pay back is a b*tch, ain’t it?

NICK FREITAS GIVES THE WORDS WITH NO BARK ON:  My Response To The Left… (Video)

OKAY, THEN, I UNDERSTAND BEING BEHIND BRANDON SANDERSON, BUT WHAT’S WITH THE ZOMBIES? Why is No Man’s Land (and Sanderson’s book) behind … Zombie Romance. And do the Zombies have a Galactic Empire? Does the Empire suffer from brain drain?

JIM TREACHER: Murder Is Wrong, Even If You’re Angry About Losing a Debate.

Charlie Kirk was murdered during a debate.

Here were his last words:

Questioner: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Too many.
Questioner: Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?
Charlie Kirk: Counting or not counting gang violence?

Then he was shot and killed. And the feds say the ammo the shooter left behind was engraved with “transgender ideology.” Quite a coincidence, huh?

As of this writing, we don’t know who did it or exactly why. But a lot of Kirk’s self-styled enemies sure are happy about it.

And zombie Wired magazine is quite cross that the right are calling out the people who went on a virtual wilding spree yesterday on social media:

The creator of Wired magazine, before he cashed in his chips and sold the magazine to the establishment left Conde Nast in 1998, was libertarian-leaning Louis Rossetto. As the late P.J. O’Rourke, an even more famous libertarian, said in a speech to the Cato Institute in 1993, “There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”

Did the people who went on a social media wilding spree last night not expect any consequences for their hateful rhetoric? Or as Varad Mehta tweeted today:

Earlier: “They wouldn’t be rushing to film themselves saying this if they didn’t believe there was a wide audience applauding them and cultural cachet to be had. That is the culture Democrats have fostered. Now they have to take responsibility and un-foster it. Not both sides. Them.”

Or as Mark Hemingway writes: The Left Has Never Been Held Accountable For Political Violence — And That Must Change.

UPDATE: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery:

The man who asked Charlie Kirk the tr*nsgender question before he was shot breaks his silence.

“The point I was trying to make is how peaceful the left was (long pause) right before he got shot.” pic.twitter.com/NkF6yqsr6B

— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) September 11, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Discuss the events of the day.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister.

Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of pixels and code and powered by artificial intelligence.

Her name is Diella, meaning sunshine in Albanian, and she will be responsible for all public procurement, Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday.

How many Mercs will “she” procure?

Still though, if things go really pear-shaped, we can always deploy the B-3 bombers: