IN AMERICA, MURDER HAS BECOME MAINSTREAM:

It’s not millionaire socialists such as Piker who pick up rifles to gun down Charlie Kirk or Zionist Jews or anyone else on the far-left’s hit list. Piker’s role is simply to create an environment in which others will act. He’s not alone: the hatred and hysteria whipped up to kill Kirk was fomented by countless small-time radical campaigners. They put a target on Kirk’s back by painting him as a threat to transgender people’s lives. The reality was that his own life was endangered – and was then taken by a gunman.

His slaughter is now a source of ongoing glee for the sort of people who listen to (and sing along with) Piker. There may be other forces at work in the brains of those who pity Lindsay Clancy, a child-killer without a political agenda. Yet it’s hard to avoid comparing her apologists with Luigi Mangione’s left-wing admirers. Mangione became a folk hero to anti-capitalist radicals after he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. Clancy’s case lacks the overt ideological angle, but emotions run deeper than ideas. Mangione and Clancy have both benefited from a warped sense of sympathy for the underdog and greater identification with the killers’ plight than with that of the victims. It’s been argued that this is a projection of “Main Character Syndrome,” the narcissistic belief of many people, in this age of social media, that the whole world is nothing but a film in which they are the star.

Other people are not really real – they’re just extras, or stock villains (the heartless healthcare executive), or mere props to set up the psychodrama (Clancy’s dead children). Clancy’s five-year-old daughter and two sons, one three years old, the other just eight months, were too young to be main characters. But Clancy, like Mangione, looks like someone who might star in a TV drama where the obviously guilty defendant miraculously turns out to be innocent. That kind of story is so much easier to relate to than one in which a mother really does intend to kill her defenseless children, or one in which a leftist young man isn’t justified in his murderous rage against “the system.” When was the last time you saw anything like that on Netflix?

Including:

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%. pic.twitter.com/C3qb2H0R8j

— Center for Strategic Politics (@StratPolitics) September 21, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: What’s next for Jayden Daniels, Washington Commanders after elbow injury? “Commanders coach Dan Quinn said Daniels will visit specialists Tuesday and Wednesday to determine the best course of action. It’s the same injury Daniels sustained in Week 9 last season; he returned in Week 14, but after reinjuring the elbow in that contest, the Commanders shut him down for the final four games of the campaign.”

In sharp contrast to Tom Brady, who dropped an S-bomb on air during the shot of Daniels’ dislocated elbow, Daniels’ teammates seem rather non-plussed about his injury:

Jayden Daniels was carted off vs. the Cowboys after going down with an apparent elbow injury.

Daniels tried to hold himself up as he was falling down and his elbow bent in an awkward way.

(📺 FOX) pic.twitter.com/dcTQLDgKws

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 20, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Hard Bigotry of Progressives.

This is just a refusal to acknowledge disparities not only in race and income, but in parental expectations, discipline, and an education system meant to fail children forward. It’s not segregation, money, teachers, or all the other people Jones has decided to blame that are holding black children in New York City back. It is the failure of parents to demand more from their children, and the failure of the teachers’ union and government to fail children forward. Black children in Mississippi don’t have universal school choice, a voucher program, or anywhere near the kind of money spent on black students in New York City, $52,349 in the case of Jones’s daughter’s school vs. $12,324 for the average school in Mississippi. Yet, the latter outperforms New York City students in testing.

Neither Jones nor her daughter can admit the hard truth that these black students didn’t have less when it came to school spending. In fact, because of New York City’s Fair Student Funding rule, she and her classmates actually had more.

In the comment section of the article, Jones said her daughter doesn’t believe she’s being hard enough on herself, and there’s a lot of truth to that. How did she knowingly put her child in an unsafe, failing school without supplemental tutoring? Why did she wait till the fourth grade to realize that none of her work was being graded? For someone who claims to be an education expert, Jones was constantly surprised. Still, aside from running to the principal or emailing the teacher, she didn’t do personalized follow-up to make sure her daughter met her standards. It’s question after question on a slow-moving train wreck that’s supposed to conclude with the thought that at least she was honest. But is that enough? Because if she had her way, her daughter would still be on track for a much harder life, where she failed to meet the basic needs of a college freshman. So she would have been left behind, and it would have been nearly impossible ever to catch up.

Jones worries that in fighting for all children and standing true to her values, she let her child down, but she’s asking the wrong question entirely. It’s not that raising your children with values rooted in your ideological framework is a bad decision; it’s the choice most parents make, whether that be based on religion, culture, or politics. The problem is that Jones’ ideology is inherently poisonous.

All of her answers to the problems were because of whiteness, structural racism, funding, poor teachers, or understaffing; on deeper examination, all of those explanations fall apart. Jones is so profoundly inept at analyzing cause and effect that at this point it’s a moral failing.

Metaphor alert:

Learning her daughter got As without ever knowing anything is an incredible metaphor for Nikole Hannah-Jones' own celebrated career as conspiracy theorist and publisher of gross falsehoods.

I assume she's not self-aware enough to realize this.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 21, 2026

Still though, Glenn noted in the very early days of Instapundit:

As the old saying has it, the left looks for heretics and the right looks for converts, and both find what they’re looking for. The effect is no doubt subliminal, but people who treat you like crap are, over time, less persuasive than people who don’t. If people on the Left are so unhappy about how many former allies are changing their views, perhaps they should examine how those allies are treated.

So as the proverbial liberal who’s been mugged by reality, welcome onboard, NHJ!

Welcome to neoconservatism, @nhannahjones I recommend a subscription to @CityJournal https://t.co/eZt84ub8zm

— Foster (@foster_type) September 20, 2026

UPDATE: Great moments in hubris:

“A NYT reporter in a high-poverty school f-ing changes the school … I can go to that school and say there is a problem and it gets fixed immediately” – Nikole Hannah-Jones pic.twitter.com/Dk7wuIsPEK

— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) September 21, 2026

AI AIRBRUSH ALERT: Stanford Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising.

Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces.

On his journey to campus, Stanford student Billy Ramirez ’27 was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, he noticed that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by a AI-generated black woman.

The Review spoke to Ramirez, who stated, “I was driving to school from my hometown when my friend sent me the images comparing the banner to the original photos, and I was immediately baffled. At first, I found it hilarious that they had used AI to completely change our appearances, including my race and gender. But after looking at the comparison, I was also upset because I don’t agree with Stanford making those choices about how we were represented. Seeing my identity changed and being left out of the picture made me feel, in a way, silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me.”

Not only were Ramirez’s race and gender changed, but the two students to Ramirez’s right were distorted, making them appear visibly thinner.

I’m so old, I can remember when “body positivity” was all the rage on the left:

WE’RE PUTTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER! Germany’s AfD partners with radical Italian ‘sister party.’

German and Italian radical Right-wing parties formally joined forces in the central Italian city of Orvieto, calling for wider unification of Europe’s nationalist factions.

Roberto Vannacci, leader of Future Nazionale, which is to the Right of Giorgia Meloni‘s governing coalition, introduced the German AfD’s Marc Jongen at a rally on Sunday.

Mr Vannacci said: “‘Alarm! Alarming!’ they all said, but as you can see he doesn’t have a shaved head or tattoos… He is a distinguished professor of philosophy with a great career.”

It marks the first time senior figures from Italy and Germany’s farthest-Right parties have appeared together openly since Alternative for Germany won a historic regional election victory in Saxony-Anhalt.

The rally came just before election exit polls in northern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern showed the AfD party on its way to winning another regional election.

Their joint-appearance also took place only two weeks after Italian and German Right-wing youth leaders traded visits.

Meanwhile, a successor to the Grand Mufti is invited back to Berlin: ‘Berlin’s Mamdani’ hosted Hamas supporter at election party.

The hard-Left leader pushing to become the mayor of Berlin has become engulfed in an anti-Semitism row, which could block her path to power.

Elif Eralp’s Die Linke (The Left) party, which traces its roots to the former East German communist party, won with 25 per cent of the vote on Sunday, putting it in pole position to form a coalition.

However, her largest potential coalition partner, the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) party, has now suggested it does not wish to work with her after Ibrahim Ibrahim, a Hamas supporter, attended Die Linke’s election celebrations on Sunday night.

“It’s very difficult to work with a party that is largely anti-Semitic,” Bärbel Bas, the SPD’s co-leader said on Monday, alluding to the presence of the controversial guest at the party.

The row could prevent Ms Eralp – who has been compared to Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, over their shared focus on affordable housing, cost-of-living issues and grassroots campaigning – from taking the top job.

According to Tagesspiegel, a German news outlet, Mr Ibrahim once described Yahya Sinwar, the slain Hamas mastermind of the Oct 7 2023 attacks on Israel, as a “martyr hero”.

She really is Berlin’s Mamdani.

Found via:

https://t.co/VEzxAK3kYf pic.twitter.com/xWSOnAI6cR

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) September 21, 2026

GRAUNIAD MAD, OVERSIGHT BAD: Plan for editorial oversight board at CNN and CBS News draws skepticism: ‘Utter garbage.’

Critics of the mega-merger had expressed concerns about CNN being taken over by the Ellison family, which has well-documented connections to the Trump administration. David Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison, have reportedly spoken with the White House about potential changes they might make at CNN, which could ultimately generate more positive coverage of the Trump administration, a prospect that has worried journalists at the cable news network.

On Monday afternoon, there was already some skepticism within the media industry – including from current and former employees at the companies involved in the deal – about whether the editorial oversight board would actually protect CNN’s editorial integrity.

“There is no way that is going to work,” former CNN anchor Jim Acosta said. “They will start to fire anchors and certain folks to send a message, and the rest will either have to fall in line or leave. This was a colossal mistake.”

One concerned CBS News staffer said that it “sounds like utter garbage”.

“I’m happy to hear more about this, but how a board works day to day is tough to wrap my head around,” said a CNN producer who was not authorized to comment.

Jessica J González, the co-chief executive of the advocacy organization Free Press, expressed doubts about the effectiveness of an oversight board.

“As we learned from the failed and widely panned Facebook oversight board, a fake bipartisan oversight committee won’t save CNN,” she said in a statement on Monday. “We have all the evidence we need from the Ellisons’ destruction of CBS about what they do to warp journalism at Donald Trump’s request.”

Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief who now teaches journalism at George Washington University, said the effectiveness of the oversight board will depend entirely on how it works.

The best way to make it work is to say, “of course the oversight board will ensure CNN will remain a liberal TV network” — and then make sure the board is working off the traditional definition of the L-Word before it was stolen by 1920s-era “Progressives” attempting to distance themselves from the horrors of the Wilson administration.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Mamdani: Quality of Life, Efficiency, Rooting Out Fraud Have “Somehow Come To Be Seen as Somehow a Right-Wing Concern:”

🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right

This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when… pic.twitter.com/zJg6Zr6xwJ

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) September 21, 2026

Like I said, unexpectedly:

It's not that hard. The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer. The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police… https://t.co/emoIbBFjVa

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 6, 2026

Tweet continues:

See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newsom promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose.

This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or Spencer Pratt’s campaign.

Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up. There is a reason why cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam.

In May during L.A.’s Spencer Pratt boomlet, Christopher Rufo tweeted:

Spencer Pratt grew up in a California that delivered all of the public services in the background without much fuss, and consequently, one could live out the California archetypes of the surfer, the burnout, or the party animal, and it was more or less as depicted in the movies…Pratt has a better understanding of the California Dream than a rigid, humorless apparatchik like Nithya Raman, who views the state as raw material for an ideological formula.

In contrast, as Jonah Goldberg wrote in 2024 of Chicago’s Mayor Daley:

Daley was a real New Deal-style liberal, but he would have no use for Shorism or Lakoff-ism. He barely spoke American. He once declared he was proud to welcome the “poet lariat” of Chicago. He complained of his enemies, “They have vilified me, they have crucified me, yes, they have even criticized me.” He famously defended the Chicago police (which, we should concede did some indefensible things) by saying “Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all—the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”

But he knew how to get snow cleared.

Again, I’m not trying to romanticize Daley, but I guarantee you a great many current residents of Chicago (or New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) would be far, far, happier to pay taxes for Daley-style government than to pay for what they have now—even if you convinced people that taxes are really just membership fees.

Democrats in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York would similarly accept a lot of corruption in their local government — if it still delivered basic services, such as fighting crime, putting out fires and repairing roads:

🚨 WATCH: LA Mayor Karen Bass bragged about paving 60 miles of roads before being reminded the city has 22,000 miles total.

That’s just 0.27%, and residents are still stuck dealing with damaged streets.pic.twitter.com/dPlNbigimf

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 21, 2026

As Democrats continually move back and to the left, back and to the left, they continue to cede a massive amount of ideological ground to the right:

Not to mention, the English language itself. When even Van Jones notices how crazy the lefty lexicon has gotten over the past decade, and how off-putting it feels to those not in the cult, it may be too difficult to temporarily reel the smugness back in: ‘I’ve Never Met A LatinX:’ CNN’s Van Jones Tears Into Left-Wing Rhetoric.

Top CNN anchor leaves panel gasping after on-air EULOGY of the Democratic Party pic.twitter.com/FWziaLNbbk

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 17, 2022

OLD AND BUSTED: Bowling Alone. 

The New Hotness? Get outside, do things with the guys:

British author Mary Harrington speculates than an afternoon spent fishing in the company of other men has x10 the therapeutic benefit of a counselor's office visit. Get outside. Be out there doing things with other men. And if you have a good relationship with your father, spend… https://t.co/RFHCDm7eJI

— Brad R. Torgersen (@BradRTorgersen) September 21, 2026

DENMARK TOOK IN 321 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN 1992. DECADES LATER, 61% HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF CRIMES:

Denmark granted special residence permits to 321 stateless Palestinians from Lebanon in 1992. By the end of 2019, Danish government data showed that 196 of the original 321 (61%) had been found guilty of at least one criminal offense.

Together, the 196 accumulated 881 criminal… pic.twitter.com/4UZFwdW7mT

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 21, 2026

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.’

DEM-SOCS SEEM NAT-SOCS EVERYWHERE:

Hasan Piker: "The Republican Party has become a fascist party in America. It's turning into a fascist party ideologically in the United States."pic.twitter.com/kU2Ya0Kroy

Yeah he's definitely gonna be campaigning for Democrats. Sure, some have denounced him but I reckon he'll tone…

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) September 21, 2026

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.”

* * * * * * * *

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.

QUESTIONS ASKED:

I can't go to a Muslim country and drink beer or wine, or eat bacon or pork BBQ; and my wife isn't allowed to walk around in shorts and a t-shirt in a Muslim-controlled country.

So why in the hell do Muslims think that they should be allowed to tell us that we should change our…

— Old Salty Marine (@BamaSaltyMarine) September 19, 2026

FASTER, PLEASE:

Doomers once again hardest hit…. https://t.co/ShB8NzALXq

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 20, 2026

ANGELA MERKEL’S TENURE “REPRESENTED THE HIGH POINT OF POSTWAR EUROPEAN EXTREMISM.”

In a brilliant essay in The Sunday Times, Matthew Syed writes the following: “If extremism is defined as acting out of proportion with context, history or consent, I suggest Merkel’s tenure represented the high point of postwar European extremism.”

I agree with Syed’s analysis.… pic.twitter.com/dCE48mAcpv

— Henrik Dahl (@SociologenHD) September 20, 2026

Why, it’s as if:

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Nikole Hannah-Jones Just Wrote the Best Case for School Choice She’ll Ever Publish.

The neighborhood school system in New York is atrocious. She knew this before sending her child to one. This is a mother who visited the cafeteria herself, who pulled fighting kids apart, who sat down and read through the ungraded homework page by page. She saw it happen, in real time, year after year. And she kept her child in that system anyway, all to make a point.

Middle school didn’t fix it. At Urban Assembly Unison, the school eliminated homework outright and adopted an “Algebra for All” policy that pushed advanced math onto students, Najya included, before they’d mastered the material underneath it. An outside tutor later found Najya hadn’t even mastered long division or fractions, the building blocks the algebra was supposed to rest on. Najya got A’s at Unison. She also, by her own account years later, “didn’t know anything.”

Hannah-Jones wants readers to see this as evidence of a broken, racially rigged system that owes her daughter something it never delivered. Some of what she documents is real: underfunded schools, high teacher turnover in high-poverty buildings, and the well-established fact that screened, selective public schools skew whiter and wealthier in a city like New York. That part of the argument isn’t fiction. It’s also not the part that determined what happened to Najya.

What determined what happened to Najya is that her parents, fully informed and financiallyN able to choose otherwise, chose a demonstrably struggling school for seven consecutive years, and admit, in the mother’s own essay, to reading every warning sign along the way.

Then something remarkable happens in the piece, and it’s the part that should have led the article: as an eighth grader, Najya finally got the freedom to choose her own high school, guided by her own criteria rather than her mother’s cause. She picked a rigorous, selective school her mother had spent a career arguing against.

Related: Question asked and answered:

NHJ and her husband intentionally sent their daughter to a low-income black school.

When her daughter said something about it, NHJ first tried to say her school wasn’t that bad: pic.twitter.com/VXhdR5QqI1

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 20, 2026

UPDATE:

"We are more than 150 years past the end of slavery in America, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones is more obsessed with race than any of the Confederate leaders whose likenesses are carved upon the side of Stone Mountain."https://t.co/o5VVzogSHq pic.twitter.com/oZ07KVvqrE

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 20, 2026

MORE:

I have some thoughts!

Nikole Hannah-Jones interviewed me at the height of woke-1 to champion and virtue signal her “fight for every black child” and disparage and dismiss my fight for all NYC public school students to enjoy the rising tide that lifts all boats of academic rigor… https://t.co/3gePQnlB2d

— Maud Maron (@MaudMaron) September 20, 2026

Exit quote: “You’re welcome Nikole. Your daughter’s chosen high school would not exist but for parents like me who fought so hard to keep screened schools.”

EAGLES-TITANS GAME TURF WAS 157 DEGREES, PER FOX TELEVISION BROADCAST:

A heat advisory and temperatures in the mid-90s in Nashville had players from the Tennessee Titans and Philadelphia Eagles pulling out all the stops to keep themselves — and their cleats — cool on Sunday.

The Fox broadcast reported the Nissan Stadium turf was 157 degrees in the third quarter. Cameras showed Titans players getting their cleats sprayed with water on the sideline, a strategy the team may have prepared for after playing in similar temperatures in its Week 1 loss to the New York Jets. The Eagles eventually won Sunday’s game vs. the Titans 24-20.

When in Nashville… 😂 pic.twitter.com/NWepuwjpkP

— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) September 20, 2026

Titans safety Amani Hooker told team writer Jim Wyatt that his cleats melted during the season opener.

“It was hot, it was really hot,” Hooker said. “My cleats actually had melted; the midsoles melted completely off, so I had to change cleats right before halftime.”

Roger Goodell wants to make the NFL a global concern, with games this season locations such as Australia, Brazil, London and Paris. Apparently he wants to go interplanetary as well, what with today’s game having been played on the surface of Venus.

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

New Underground Railroad Established To Help Lone Black Juror Escape From Angry White Liberals In The North https://t.co/hvTn8XFzgQ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 18, 2026

MARK JUDGE: The New Yorker: Conservatives are Bringing Sexy Back.

The New Yorker just published a piece by Jennifer Wilson about America’s new ideas of what’s sexy. The trend is driven by conservatives, who’ve claimed breasts, lingerie and hotness in the wake of the left’s transgender, feminist and #MeToo madness.

Here’s the amazing thing about The New Yorker piece: it takes the side of the right. Wilson tries to protest, but her tone reveals that she thinks the left has become too rigid. “How had everything been turned so upside down?” she asks. “Had conservatives taken sexy back, or was this all just an optical illusion, not unlike the kind created by a padded bra or a pair of Spanx?” In response to popular athlete Sophie Cunningham wearing an Arby’s t-shirt, Wilson writes: “How did this happen? How did the right get the meats?” The conclusion: “While we were pretending not to be looking, breasts had somehow become Republican-coded.”

Wilson then turns her attention to Sydney Sweeney and the history of lingerie. Sweeney made feminists flip their wigs by doing a recent ad promoting gambling where she’s nude except for sports balls. Others are feeling equally bold, notes Wilson: “In 2024, Victoria’s Secret, under its new C.E.O., Hillary Super, had announced the return of its signature fashion show, which had been paused indefinitely in 2019. The year before, Ed Razek, the event’s producer, told Vogue that he had no plans to begin casting plus-size or transgender models (whom he called ‘transsexuals’) because the show was about ‘fantasy.’”

Super told Fortune that Victoria’s Secret would now be less “performative” when it came to diversity and would no longer “check every box and make sure every single thing someone could think of is covered.”

Flashback to the Kavanaugh hearings: Did conservatives win the culture war?

And physical fitness: Crazy Town: Masked Woman at ‘Socialism 2026 Conference’ in Chicago Explains Why Fitness is Fascist (Video).

And pretty much everything else:

Things that are now rightwing:

Investigative journalism
Academic rigour
Scientific dissent
Nature
Facts
Biology
Politeness
Punctuality
Normality
Free speech
Individual rights
Rationality
Objectivity
Self-reliance
Emotional restraint
Delayed gratification

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) August 15, 2026

10 TIMES LEFTIST PRESIDENTS LOCKED OUT THE PRESS:

Good list.

Then there was the blackballing of President Trump across the social mediasphere, and the total blackout on the NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. Plus collusion on Russiagate and covid “misinformation.” By the First Amendment champions.

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 20, 2026

SUNDAY SMILES:

Robbers Announce They Will Have To Leave San Francisco Because Everything’s Been Robbed https://t.co/aKg5jpEIaL

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 20, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: NYT op-ed’s wildly woke argument against SATs includes shocking admission that students struggle with ‘basic math.’

A New York Times writer came out swinging against the push to bring back admissions tests at the University of California — even as she admitted that students are struggling with “basic math.”

But all of that is worth it, Miriam Pawal argued, because the university is now more inclusive.

“Students on University of California campuses may struggle with basic math, but they are graduating at record rates,” she wrote, hailing the “exceptional” university system for its “commitment to increase access without sacrificing excellence.”

She buttressed her point with statistics about how around 40% of its students are the first in their families to attend college. “More than half qualify for free tuition,” she gushed.

“When the University of California eliminated the SAT requirement for admission in 2021, UCLA saw a significant jump in applications from high-achieving black and Latino students, for whom the standardized tests had been a barrier,” she said.

“The percentages of underrepresented students have crept up, through a variety of initiatives. The California Dream Act gave undocumented students access to financial aid, as well as in-state tuition.”

As always, do the opposite of what California does: Florida bans undocumented [sic] students from selective public universities.

GOODER AND HARDER, FUN CITY:

🚨 OMG. Stunning resurfaced footage shows Ugandan Mayor Mamdani saying the plan is to manipulate white leftists into electing 3rd worlders like him

Spoken in his 3rd world accent: "You need someone to be a validator, tell them to TRUST US."

🤯🤯

"Minority communities, because… pic.twitter.com/WE0heb9Ip3

— War Correspondent (@warDaniel47) September 18, 2026

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED:

This has got to be one of the craziest headlines from the woke era. pic.twitter.com/NRJZcjri1i

— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) September 19, 2026

BRYAN PRESTON: I saw the movie that Warner tried to delete: Coyote vs. Acme.

Warner Bros. had a movie it spent $70 million to create, finished in 2022. It brought some big names together – James Gunn as writer and producer, stars John Cena and Will Forte, and even bigger names in Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and all the other classics from Looney Tunes. Warner didn’t just launch production on this film, it went through the entire process, and had a finished work that was ready for theaters. It was called “Coyote vs. Acme,” pitting the hapless Wile E. Coyote against the megacorp from which he’d bought so much failed gear over the decades.

But thanks to perverse tax incentives and a difficult climate for major movie releases, Warner decided to do the unthinkable: It was going to delete this finished movie. Not just shelve it. Destroy it.

Will Forte, who plays Coyote’s attorney in the film, appeared on Jay Mohr’s podcast, called it “a very frustrating story.”

“So we make this movie. The script is really fun. And then, we went through the process of making this movie, and we made an even better movie than this great script.”

Because half the film is animated with composited cartoon characters, anvils and other tropes, post-production was a long process. But it got through all that, Forte says, and they were called to a screening.

“After all the animation, they’re finally ready to show it to the cast. They called us up on a Tuesday night. Said, ‘OK we’re gonna show it to you next Tuesday. It’s testing really well, we’re very excited about it.’ The next day I get a call that Warner Bros. is going to shelve it. Just wants to take a tax loss.”

The cast still got to see the movie. Forte said he assumed that if Warner was shelving it, “It must be not as good as these guys said. But they saw it, and it’s ‘great.’

“Which made it even more frustrating… It was nuts.”

As Rob Long writes in this month’s issue of Commentary: Coyote Vs. Studio.

Given the position Warner Bros. was in at the time, the guys who shelved it weren’t wrong, and it is physically painful for me to write these words: The studio executives weren’t morons. In fact, they were doing the math correctly. The standard rule of thumb is that six out of 10 studio movies never earn back what was spent on them. An NYU Stern study found that the median studio-financed film delivers about 27 percent ROI. The median independently financed film returned negative 13 percent.

I didn’t know what those numbers meant—I’m a writer; I don’t know how money works—so I looked it up. Mature software companies post returns on investment capital in the 20–25 percent range. McDonald’s posts in the 22–26 percent zone.

So: A McDonald’s—a building that sells hamburgers to people who already know exactly what they’re going to order before they walk in—returns roughly 24 percent. A mature software company, selling code it had to write only once, returns 20–25 percent. But only four times out of 10 does a studio movie—which involves movie stars, visual effects, marketing campaigns, and a two-year production process that could be derailed at any point by a pandemic, a strike, or an actor who loves Hamas—return 27 percent. You can get the same return renting out a drive-thru window as you can financing a movie. But the drive-thru doesn’t require you to guess, 18 months in advance, whether the culture is going to want to watch a cartoon coyote and his lawyer. The smart move is to put down the camera and pick up the french-fry basket.

But the entire premise of the movie business—the only reason anyone has ever agreed to finance it—is that occasionally something as odd and small as a cartoon coyote suing a company that makes atomic-powered roller skates turns out to be a moneymaker. You don’t get into show business because it’s a good bet. You get into it because it’s fun. Warner Bros. wanted the predictability of a bank and the jackpot of a casino, and you cannot, in the end, have both.

Which is why Warner Brothers may well be absorbed into the Ellison empire, and if so, that’s possibly a wrap for the industry’s company town: Maybe Paramount-Warner SHOULD Leave L.A.

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— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 18, 2026

I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THE LEFT OPENLY DEMANDED HIGHER GAS PRICES:

President Trump secured 65 billion barrels of oil from Venezuela.

He just secured military and economic control over Greenland.

Poverty in the US just hit an all-time low.

We have net negative immigration to the US for the first time in 75 years.

Do you see why they have to…

— Pro America Politics (@proamericapol) September 19, 2026

Tweet concludes, “Do you see why they have to desperately obsess over the temporary increase in gas prices? It’s all they have.”

Obama and his cronies obsessed over creating a permanent increase in gas prices. As Steven Chu, Obama’s then-incoming energy secretary, told the Wall Street Journal in the fall of 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”

UPDATE:

Wow I can't believe Diesel is over $9/gallon

Wait nevermind this was 2022 under Biden pic.twitter.com/YzxSsFjeaN

— RightWI (@RightWI1776) September 19, 2026