ISAACMAN IS HAPPY WITH IT, BUT NOT EVERYBODY ELSE IS: NASA is Going Back to the Moon Next Month in a Ship That Many Experts Feel Is Unsafe.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 28, 2026
A memo from before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, reportedly captured by the IDF in Gaza, quotes a top Palestinian Islamic Jihad military official dismissing Hamas’s concerns that rockets launched by the terror group during a previous round of fighting in Gaza were falling short of Israel and landing inside the Strip, with deadly consequences for Gazans.
“We are in a war; even if a thousand are killed by friendly fire, that’s the price of war,” Akram al-Ajouri is quoted as saying in the document, parts of which were first published by the Kan public broadcaster this morning.
Days after the Hamas onslaught sparked the current war, a misfired Gazan rocket that Israel said was launched by Islamic Jihad landed in Gaza City’s al-Ahli Baptists’ Hospital, killing hundreds, with Hamas and many major news outlets initially placing the blame on Israel.
Hamas doesn’t see friendly fire as the price of war, but as an opportunity for anti-Israeli propaganda.
The Complicit Media generally plays along, too.
INCITING MORE DISTURBED LEFTIES TO VIOLENCE: Philly’s Soros DA Just Threatened ICE Agents Bigly.
FOLLOW THE MONEY BECAUSE, GOOD LORD, IS THERE A LOT OF IT:
After Benny @bennyjohnson went digging on Illan Omar, I went digging a little bit on "the squad".
Rashida Tlaib is a broke ass mf'r btw.
However, Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) has some interesting things going on.
Her husband is pulling in $1M/yr from "government funded" sources.…
— ✪ Evil Te𝕏an ✪ (@vileTexan) January 27, 2026
The Left takes care of its own. It might be their single biggest secret to winning.
Or is it in second, right behind cheating?
WE KNOW — DO BETTER: NATO leader warns Europe is unable to defend itself without US assistance.
Rutte, who spoke with Trump at the World Economic Forum last week, told European lawmakers in Brussels that they would need to double their expected economic spending on defense if they hoped to defend themselves without the U.S.
“If anyone thinks here … that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can’t,” Rutte said, according to the Associated Press. “If you really want to go it alone, forget that you can ever get there with 5%. It will be 10%.
Left unsaid: Putin’s Russia is hardly the Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact, yet Europe still can’t manage.
REQUIRED READING:
The GOP needs to understand this ecosystem of NGOs and the level of organization.
They have been working nonstop on this since 2016 and the “network of networks” that are part of the “movement of movements.” It. continues to grow, tighten and organize.
📝They have their 4-B… https://t.co/Na7QthOfe0
— SKDoubleDub (@SKDoubleDub33) January 27, 2026
TURNAROUND: Boeing’s quarterly sales jump 57% as CEO says there’s ‘a lot to be optimistic about.’
The company’s airplane deliveries last year were the highest since 2018, helping drive revenue. Boeing brought in $23.9 billion in the last three months of 2025, a 57% increase over the same period in 2024 and topping analysts’ expectations. Cash flow of $400 million was roughly double what Wall Street was expecting.
CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff that the company is making progress and that there’s “a lot to be optimistic about” in 2026.
“At the same time, with progress comes expectations, and our customers and stakeholders are going to expect more from us this year,” he said.
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Boeing delivered 600 airplanes to customers last year, nearly double the number from 2024 and the most since 2018. Ortberg, who came out of retirement to run the manufacturer in 2024, and other executives have said more production increases are on the horizon in the coming months.
Nice.
CONSTITUENT SERVICES: Boston Police ignored all 57 immigration detainer requests from ICE last year. “ICE says it lodges immigration detainers after officers or agents establish probable cause to believe that a noncitizen is removable under federal immigration law, typically after a court has convicted them of one or more crimes and when the noncitizen poses a public safety or national security threat.”
RESTORING THE MONROE DOCTRINE — THE DONROE DOCTRINE? — MEANS NOT TOLERATING THIS KIND OF THING:
Allow me to translate, China doesn’t want to lose their spy base in Cuba. https://t.co/PecF3GEelN pic.twitter.com/coa9jEymdi
— Denise Wu (@denisewu) January 27, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force envisions rolling awards for new RG-XX neighborhood watch satellites.
RG-XX is being designed as the successor to the Space Force’s Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) constellation originally comprised of six satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 36,000 kilometers in altitude.
The flexibility of the new acquisitional approach is necessary because, for one, McClain said it’s unclear how many RG-XX satellites the Space Force will need.
“The quantity will be based off of a couple of factors,” he said, “the cost of the individual systems that we get, [but also] available funds and the mission need.”
And while RG-XX sats are expected to be more manueverable than GSSAP birds and will be the first Space Force satellites capable of refueling in orbit, McClain said it is not completely clear whether the RG-XX satellites alone will be all that is needed to replace the venerable GSSAP birds, the first of which launched in 2014.
I’m sure they’ll be impressive, but I’m less sure about the “neighborhood watch” branding that sounds less like “Keeping an eye on Chinese shipyards” and more like “HOA busybody.”
GOOD LORD:
Just an extraordinary amount of self-congratulation around the basic theme: "We stopped ICE from arresting a Laotian rapist."
That just is the core reality here. Minnesota county-level jails rejected something like 900 ICE detainers for felons over the past year (vet me on this)… https://t.co/Z2pxWtRHOl
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) January 28, 2026
Naturally, the Complicit Media does what it does best — push false narratives.
The entire legacy media rushed out a story this afternoon about an Arizona man shot by Border Patrol, explicitly trying to tie what the agents did to Minnesota.
Turns out, the man shot was an alleged human trafficker who shot at agents first.
Many headlines remain unchanged. pic.twitter.com/uyLPFrq6ND
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) January 28, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Are Angry That ICE Is Deporting Their Midterm Voters. “Whenever anyone on the conservative side of the aisle accuses the Democrats of trying to get illegal aliens to the polls to vote, the Dems’ denials are less than convincing. They are no longer even capable of feigning shock and disgust. The attitude has more of a brazen, ‘Yeah, and see what you can do to stop us,’ vibe.”
That’s changing.
INDEED:
The future national security professional will look back at the previous generation's stewardship of the U.S. industrial capacity with a mixture of horror and confusion.
How could a generation who inherited so much wealth not just squander it, but leave their children a nation… https://t.co/RjRqCFbeFT
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) January 27, 2026
All they had to do was keep what they were given.
COMPETENCE: Tale of two managements: Trump’s prep and readiness vs. Biden’s ‘no comment.’
In an open letter signed by almost 200 current and former FEMA employees, they stated: “A change in course is necessary to prevent not only another national catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina, but the effective dissolution of FEMA itself and the abandonment of the American people such an event would represent.”
In addition to the rapid approval of emergency declarations, which authorized FEMA to coordinate relief and provide aid for essential activities, in many cases within days of state requests, the Trump administration proactively coordinated with states and pre-positioned supplies (including meals and generators).
By most accounts, the Trump administration’s handling of Fern appears to have been proven effective, with President Trump deploying hundreds of FEMA personnel.
Furthermore, FEMA has established a dedicated resource page for response and recovery, with federal aid flowing for power restoration, debris removal, and protective measures in affected areas.
It wasn’t about the money; it was about leadership.
NO MORE COMPROMISE:
Average blue state elected Democrat: “We want to burn everything to the ground and hunt down our enemies and jail them for life.”
Average red state elected GOP: “I’m certain we can find a good compromise here.” https://t.co/irzkEKmjjz
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) January 27, 2026
ICYMI: Introducing the Actual Grassroots Lefty Group Helping Organize the Insurrection.
There doesn’t seem to be much actual grassroots on the left, and what I’ve found is unsavory at best.
I LIKE STEEL: US Steel Surpasses Japan, Boosted by Trump Tariffs.
For the first time in more than a quarter-century, the United States has muscled past Japan in steel production — a symbolic and economic milestone fueled by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime and a surging appetite for steel from America’s booming artificial intelligence buildout, Nikkei Asia reports.
U.S. crude steel output climbed 3.1% in 2025 to 82 million tons, according to the World Steel Association, vaulting the U.S. into third place globally behind only China and India.
It marked the first time since 1999 that American mills outproduced Japan, ending decades of relative decline and signaling a dramatic shift in the global steel landscape.
The revival has Trump’s fingerprints all over it.
Indeed.
SHE’S SOMETHING: Amelia Victorious: How to Lose the Culture War With a Video Game.
January 27, 2026
THE VIEW FROM CALIFORNIA: The Minneapolis Insanity Has Some People Thinking About Gun Ownership and the 2A for the Very First Time. “Seeing black panthers and white folk in Minneapolis protecting their neighborhoods is amazing to see. We do not have that at all here. I feel like our passiveness here will only make it worse because people (part of me does too) think exercising our 2A right to protect ourselves in our home will only make it worse. That mentality has gotten us nowhere. This is year one, if things keep going and getting worse I fear many of us will highly regret it.’
ATHENA THORNE: Can We Get These Guys a Pulitzer? “Just for starters, there’s Andy Ngo. He alone deserves a Pulitzer for his work over the years, tracking the organized anti-American forces that flare up periodically with refreshed branding to reflect the cause du jour.”
YES, BUT…: GM Beats Earnings Expectations, Boosts Dividend by 20%.
General Motors reported a $3.3 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2025 as a previously disclosed write-off mostly related to its struggling electric-vehicle business weighed on the company’s results.
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GM’s $2.8 billion in adjusted operating income in the quarter—which excludes the $7.2 billion in write-offs and special charges related to EVs and other items—beat analysts’ expectations of $2.75 billion, according to FactSet. The company also said it is on track for $13 billion to $15 billion in 2026 adjusted earnings, while forecasts had pointed to $13.7 billion.GM shares rose as much as 5.5% in premarket trading Tuesday morning.
The results capped a turbulent year in which GM scrambled to adjust to President Trump’s automotive tariffs, while also significantly scaling back its money-losing EV business.
The automaker managed to grow its share of the U.S. market in 2025 while delivering $12.7 billion in adjusted pretax earnings, about $2 billion less than it originally projected before Trump’s tariffs were announced.
GM and its crosstown rival Ford Motor are looking to take advantage of the Trump administration’s about-face on regulations that required automakers to sell cleaner vehicles by ramping up production of profitable trucks and SUVs that run on gasoline, while minimizing EV losses.
Late last year, GM began announcing write-offs related to its pivot away from EVs. They have totaled $7.6 billion so far.
How many billions of tax dollars and shareholder value did Washington piss away?