Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 30, 2026
YEAH, MY EMPATHY FOR THAT KIND OF THING RAN OUT BEFORE I EVER HAD ANY:
please read this piece, it was so good. it’s about dei officers in the federal government being cleaned out and many being unable to find new jobs because they were put on “dei watchlists” that come up in google searches in the exact same way it did for right wingers who had…
— Nightmare Vision (@GodCloseMyEyes) October 30, 2026
I'm supposed to somehow feel sorry for people whose job description it is to fill racial quotas in hiring. https://t.co/hWalUyEOvt
— Sarcastic Cupcake (@SarcasticCupcak) October 30, 2026
I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS: A Notoriously Unsolvable 600-Year-Old Puzzle May Have Just Been In The Wrong Order All Along.
HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET VOTERS TO CHOSE THE WRONG CANDIDATE IF THEY HAVE TO SHOW ID?
Lyman: Dems Claim Voter ID Is Too Confusing But Not ‘Decoy Dan’ Ballot Trickhttps://t.co/CHPz3MJBio
— The Federalist (@FDRLST) October 30, 2026
IT ISN’T FRIDAY UNTIL IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Finally, a Genuine Man-Bites-Dog Story. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn once more that TikTok kills brain cells, that you still shouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight, and what makes them say, ‘Gee, whiz!’ in Minnesota.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
I wish more Republicans understood this. Education is one of our country's few genuinely existential problems. Our K through PhD system is a vast communism factory. It barely gets mentioned in our political debates. https://t.co/tqDr74UnjD
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) October 30, 2026
AMAZING THAT IT STILL WORKS AT ALL: Engineers inexplicably lose contact with Voyager-1 for 24 hours.
As Voyager-1 is speeding away from the solar system at about 38,000 miles per hour, its distance from Earth continues to grow. On November 18, 2026 it will finally be far enough away that it will take 24 hours for a radio signal to get to or from it, the equivalent of one light day, equivalent to 16.09 billion miles, or about four times farther from the Sun than Pluto.
It is expected that the spacecraft’s nuclear power supply will finally run out in about a year or two. The goal right now is to keep it alive until September 5, 2027, the 50th anniversary of its launch.
Incredible.
THEY’RE NEVER MORE THAN ONE ELECTION AWAY FROM COMPLETING THE “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION” BEGUN BY OBAMA:
Democrat Texas Senate Nominee James Talarico: “The Supreme Court needs to be overhauled… I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices.” pic.twitter.com/bnXR4G8fZA
— America (@america) October 30, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Portland City Hall Declared a Brain-Free Zone. “This week, the Portland City Council declared City Hall a brain-free zone. This is for a couple of reasons, which you’ll hear about. We’ve got an election roundup. And Gavin Newsom thought Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’s idea of burning tax dollars in a big bonfire in front of God and everybody was such a great idea that he’s doing it, too.”
ANOTHER REMINDER THAT WHATEVER THE LEFT ACCUSES OTHERS OF BEING OR DOING IS EXACTLY WHAT LEFTIES ARE BEING OR DOING:
Concerned about fascism so they're picking people at random to prosecute when they get power. To protect against fascism. https://t.co/DKlJmfQC2N
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) October 30, 2026
GOOD LORD: Binance Suspends Transactions After It Is Targeted in Biggest-Ever Cyber Heist.
Binance suspended transactions Thursday as the exchange investigates the biggest cyber heist in history.
“It does look like a hack on Binance,” Changpeng Zhao, Binance’s founder, said in a post on the social-media platform X. “User funds are safe.”
Binance said late Thursday that the hack totaled around $6.3 billion.
Zhao, who no longer leads the world’s biggest crypto exchange but remains its largest shareholder, added that stablecoin providers Tether and Circle had moved quickly to freeze some $1.7 billion in stolen assets. Binance later revised that number to $3 billion across several different assets.
Cybersecurity research firms TRM Labs and Pangolin Intelligence said the heist appears to have been conducted by North Korea’s TraderTraitor hacking group, which has been behind many of the largest crypto hacks in recent memory. “This was absolutely North Korea,” said Nick Carlsen, a senior investigator on the Global Investigations team at TRM, who told the Journal he worked with Pangolin Intelligence to correlate hackers’ blockchain activity with information they gathered on other DPRK-linked attacks.
Binance said it has suspended all deposits and withdrawals as its team conducts security checks, freezes funds and works with law enforcement.
I had been assured that blockchain simply couldn’t be hacked.
NICE WORK, FELLAS:
An Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat yesterday killed two commanders from Hamas's military wing, the IDF said.
One of them, squad commander Ihab Jamil Abu Takiya, was involved in holding many hostages early in the war, among them Noa Argamani and Emily Hand.
Platoon commander… pic.twitter.com/elFYtdntdR
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 30, 2026
CHRIS QUEEN’S “THE COST OF AN ORDINARY LIFE”: Politicians Should Boost Your Budget, Not Their Stock Portfolios.
NEW YORK POST FOR THE WIN ONCE MORE:
GOODER AND HARDER, NYC: Hochul just confessed: She’ll give Mamdani his tax hikes next year.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s artful dodge on the issue tells you all you need to know: She’s going to give Mayor Zohran Mamdani at least some of his tax hikes — next year, once she’s safely re-elected.
This year, she sent him some state money and OK’d some dodgy new borrowing, then pushed through his pied-à-terre tax; asked outright this week if she’ll give him more next year as a reward for his support now, she offered only a coy “There are no quid pro quos,” conspicuously saying nothing about taxes but pointedly saying she looks forward “to continue working in partnership” with the mayor on matters of mutual interest.
Until now, the gov has sworn up, down and backward to oppose increasing taxes on the rich.
Yeah, well — she lied.
THE OCEANS AREN’T GETTING ANY SMALLER:
I rise to remind everyone that this is not a new development.
Longer than 6-month deployments became a normal occurrence well a decade and a half ago and became normalized in 2013 after years of seeing them.
At the time: "Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet… https://t.co/N0cANVVyil
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 30, 2026
“We have to either retreat from world commitments and leave civilization to the tender mercies of the PRC and other bad-faith actors, or step up and build and support the fleet that is required.”
The world was a pretty decent place when the Royal Navy and later the USN were big enough to make it that way.
TO BE FAIR, HE’S ALWAYS BEEN A DICK…:
Obama got caught with his pants down by telling a really stupid "joke", and it backfired tremendously. Then he lied about "they mobilized a whole government response to that joke". No they didn't, BO. You just got caught being a d!ck. https://t.co/uH9k9rD5bg
— General™️ (@TheGeneral_0) October 30, 2026
…he just doesn’t hide it as well when he’s frustrated.
THERE DOESN’T SEEM TO BE A SINGLE GUN CONTROL ADVOCATE WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT GUNS: Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically… Or Something. “AR-15s are machineguns, except that they — at least to start — have semiautomatic fire rather than automatic fire.”
ACCOUNTABILITY WORKS:
You are moving to a different point now, which is fine. But I want you to know that I was respectful in my reply, as I have been to the critics. You were not correct about the public display of the Moon rocks or about prior presidents having rocks in the Oval Office. Now you have…
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) October 29, 2026
More:
The President submitted a budget request that challenged NASA to do more with less. I provided testimony on the budget because, as you would see in OIG reports, there are examples where NASA was not the best at resource allocation and outcomes suffered. But ultimately, Congress appropriated funding, as is its responsibility.
Then we had a year like 2026: the Artemis II mission went very well and we immediately press on to Artemis III, not wasting time or money, six astrophysics missions set records; we held “too big to fail” programs accountable for being over budget and behind schedule; and we launched new initiatives in a logical, iterative way, like Moon Base and SR-1 Freedom. A flagship mission like Roman launched ahead of schedule. X-planes are actually flying again (and on their way to KSC at this moment). We have dramatically rebuilt the workforce, added thousands of civil servants, and put our machine shops back to building hardware. We have taken control of our destiny and put NASA back in the driver seat. And as a result, we have a President who has clearly taken notice and is showing a lot of interest in America’s space program, from Artemis to Roman.
This is how you go from being asked to do more with less to being asked to do more with more.
That last line deserves a monument somewhere in Washington.
KRUISER: Trying to Ignore France’s Muslim Problem, WaPo Stumbles Onto Truth About Socialism. “The leftist bent of the WaPo board shows up not in what was written, but what wasn’t.”
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T TAKE THE BLACK PILL:
Verifiably, Trump has the largest effort of de-legalization, denaturalization, visa revocation and real deportations, on top of the greatest cuts to overall legal immigration in over a century. https://t.co/SczgY6fXRX pic.twitter.com/3Kkylgaarn
— Prowler (@derzum_) October 30, 2026
SOCIALISM IS JUST PEOPLE WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING ORDERING AROUND THE PEOPLE WHO DO THINGS UNTIL NOTHING GETS DONE:
Notice that not a single person on that cover has ever held a real job.
— Greg Scott (@greg_scott) October 30, 2026
I’m old enough to remember when Newsweek was the more-or-less centrist of the big newsweeklies.
UPDATE (From Ed): I’m old enough to remember when the then-Washington Post-owned Newsweek declared at the dawn of the Obama era:
WAS THAT WRONG? California High-Speed Rail Chief Quits Over Spending Scandal. “Earlier this month, the board voted to strip Choudri of his authority to sign or manage contracts under $25 million, and also required in-house legal review of contracts, which must have taken most of the fun out of the job — but more on that below.”