FINANCING OUR DESTROYERS: Missouri School District Shells Out $15,000 On CRT Professor To Conduct History Curriculum Audit.

RATIO’D: Twitter Says It’s Testing a New Capability. Joe Biden Will Dislike It.

HE’S OBJECTIVELY PRO-PUTIN: Biden’s Pipeline To Nowhere: It’ll Build Back Russia Better. “The argument that Mr. Biden is going to improve relations with our European allies is just false. Outside Germany, they’re against approving the pipeline. This creates severe doubts about the diplomatic wisdom of the current State Department and national security adviser competency. Of course, this decision leaves the Ukraine in the lurch.”

LIVE AT 3:30PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

REVEALED: Critical race theory group promoted by Dept of Ed has links to top Biden officials.

HOES UP: Facebook Flags the Name of a Gardening Tool When Used in a Gardening Group. “This is funny and would be a lot funnier if the Biden White House hadn’t deputized Facebook to chase you and me around on its platform if we post something the regime doesn’t like. But it has.”

SAD, BUT TRUE: Despite Tuesday’s flight, Jeff Bezos is running out of time to save Blue Origin.

In late 2014, Blue Origin stunned the space industry by announcing that it had reached a deal to build rocket engines for United Launch Alliance, then the premiere launch company in the United States. United Launch Alliance selected Blue’s BE-4 engine for its new Vulcan rocket over an offering from Aerojet Rocketdyne, the blueblood propulsion company behind the majority of large rocket engines in US history.

About a year later, Blue Origin pulled off another feat by safely launching and landing the New Shepard rocket and capsule on its up-and-down suborbital mission. This marked the first time in history that anyone—country or company—had vertically launched a first-stage rocket into space and then landed it back on the ground.

The next month, in December 2015, SpaceX repeated this launch-and-landing feat with its orbital Falcon 9 rocket for the first time. From a technical standpoint, the Falcon 9 landing was much more significant, as it requires about 30 times more energy to boost a payload into orbit and complicated engineering to slow such a booster down and return it to the landing site. No matter: After the Falcon 9 flight, Jeff Bezos cheekily tweeted, “Welcome to the club” to Musk and SpaceX.

Musk was decidedly not amused, but this banter underscored the emerging rivalry—Bezos and Musk, billionaire versus billionaire, on a quest to build reusable rockets and remake the space industry. Back then, it all seemed so clear: The 21st-century space race would be run by Blue Origin and SpaceX, and it was going to be a hell of a thing to watch.

Only it hasn’t been. There has been no race. Since the end of 2015, Blue Origin has launched its suborbital New Shepard system just 15 more times, an average of fewer than three missions per year. Only this week did humans finally get on board for a launch. As for the BE-4 engine, after promising it would be ready for spaceflight in 2017, Blue Origin has yet to deliver a flight-ready version to United Launch Alliance more than four years later.

ULA is in a real bind here.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE MIGHT HAVE TO BE PERMANENTLY RETIRED: Defendant in Whitmer ‘Kidnap’ Plot Says Zealous FBI Agents Stagecrafted It and Entrapped Defendants.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Democrats’ spending plans don’t show any signs of sanity. “Lest we forget, Democrats were not, in fact, sent to Washington with a mandate to change everything, but given an evenly divided Senate, the slimmest House majority since World War I, and a president who won in a squeaker. Had just 90,000 votes gone the other way, it would be the Republicans, not the Democrats, who would control all of Washington, D.C. Were this a time of plenty, the case for a splurge would remain weak.”

They’re looting the treasury because they got the keys, end of story.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Everything Is Up in Biden’s America: Food Prices, Jobless Claims, Division…

Plus:

• When Rennaissance Fair rejects with too much makeup attack!
• Iran has even more domestic troubles Biden won’t exploit
• How a dark money group determins who can say what online

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

YOU’LL KNOW WHAT YOU’RE ALLOWED TO KNOW: Was Biden Involved? YouTube Removes Video on Vaccine Parental Rights.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Kodak censors photographer at urging of Chinese Communist Party. “On their WeChat page, the storied American film company said that they would ‘respect the Chinese government and Chinese laws.’ Kodak also said it would ‘keep itself in check.'”

STATE-SANCTIONED RACISM: Biden Administration Calls Guide on ‘Disrupting Whiteness’ an ‘Error’ While Leaving Other Radical Content Intact.

BACK BY INVITATION: The Return of Urban Blight. “Democrats were allowed to run America’s big cities for decades because machine politics mostly worked well enough most of the time to meet the needs of most citizens. There was enough graft, cronyism and featherbedding to keep close party coalition partners happy while still providing an minimum baseline of services. But Social Justice appears to be the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back. No longer content with traditional levels of welfare state clientism, Social Justice demands that all city funding must flow through its sticky fingers, especially police funding that previously keep big American cities mostly safe and livable.”

WELL, SHE’S A MARXIST: D.C. Mayor Painted ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the Streets, But She Erased ‘Cuba Libre.’

HMM: Without EU action, Belarus will become a failed state on Europe’s doorstep.

The Belarus situation today can be described as Donbasization. Like Russia’s effective seizure of that Ukrainian territory, it involves transformation into a full-on rogue state with no rule of law, complete international isolation, the demolition of civil society, the middle class, and the private sector. The hijacking of a passenger plane was merely the pinnacle of this process.

But Aliaksandr Lukashenka is not planning to stop. A few days after the Ryanair incident, he openly declared that Belarus will no longer stop drugs and illegal immigrants at the EU border. And so, to punish the EU, the regime decided to weaponize illegal migration. It launched a scheme of bringing people from Africa and the Middle East into Belarus and then transferred them to Lithuania’s EU border for a fee.

Domestically, the regime has launched a new attack against private businesses. There are talks among pro-regime analysts about the nationalization of Austria’s Raiffeisenbank and A1 Telecom. Belarus has withdrawn from the EU Eastern Partnership scheme, de facto recognized the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (part of Ukraine), and made September 17, the date the Soviet Union invaded Poland, a national holiday. In other words, Belarus is really breaking bad.

What a mess, but one that might work out to Moscow’s advantage, since Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has so far resisted complete Anschluss with Russia.

RURAL DEMOCRATS ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES, HUNTED ALMOST TO EXTINCTION BY THEIR OWN PARTY: Rural Democrats Are Running Scared From Their Woke Party’s Extremist National Brand.

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be ‘Just On The Horizon.’

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Drunk Uncle Biden Struggles With English, Truth at Town Hall. “The case could be made that this wasn’t that big of a train wreck because it happened on CNN and therefore had an audience only slightly larger than I do when my cat wanders in and watches me while I shave. Still, why can’t they just leave this guy in the White House with his coloring books and spare the country the embarrassment? Television appearances by Biden are probably the only American shows the ChiComs allow to air uncensored so their beleaguered citizens can finally have something to laugh at.”

THE WOKE HAVE NO SYMPATHY OR CONCERN FOR THE WORKINGMAN: Colorado AFL-CIO will withhold donations to Democratic campaign committees through May 2022, saying unions have been ‘excluded.’

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN A FEW DEMOCRATS WANTED THIS, TOO: AOC Discovers That Republicans Want Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship to Fall.

Actually, that does make me feel old.

KANGAROO COURT: McCarthy Pulls His Five Republicans From Riot Commission After Pelosi Rejects Conservative Reps.

KIRA DAVIS: California Parents Start Petition to End Absurd School Mask Mandates.

VIDEO: Cuban Exile Questions Biden’s Handling of the Opportunity to Free the Country From Communism.

#RESIST: Backlash in states starts over Biden court-packing scheme. “While some other states have passed simple resolutions on the issue, their plan, dubbed “Wisconsin Keep 9 Resolution,” calls for a constitutional convention to debate an amendment that would require nine [justices].”