Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 29, 2026
PROFILES IN COURAGE…
How to make a political candidate squirm 101:
Ask James Talarico if he thinks Allah is non-binary as well.
— Steve 🇺🇸 (@SteveLovesAmmo) October 28, 2026
…that you’ll never get to witness.
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
As the prophecy foretold, Starship 42 will be the first tower catch https://t.co/0v2tfYPcUv
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 29, 2026
“Don’t panic,” the wise man once wrote.
IT’S THE CHICAGO WAY:
Same guy https://t.co/JqhkoN9sKq pic.twitter.com/WFoeh5u91W
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 29, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: L.A. Real Estate Is Partying Like It’s 2008. “There was no global financial panic. No world war. No recession. No pandemic. Just Southern California stuck in a self-imposed rut from which there seems to be no escape.”
THEY’RE FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND THEY’RE HERE TO HELP: ‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years.
By “restore money that was improperly cut,” the Times means that Democrats will refuse to pass budget bills that don’t include funding for all the multibillion-dollar scam projects that help fund their cause, like USAID and every anti-American NGO. When they say “scientific research and disease prevention,” that’s what they’re referring to.
The editorial went on to encourage Democrats in power to heavily rely on “hearings, subpoenas and more” to “hold the president and his appointees responsible.” And why stop at government officials? There’s plenty of harassment to go around for Trump supporters! “Even if Mr. Trump and his aides illegally defy subpoenas,” the Times said, “the House can summon corporate executives and others who have enabled him.”
In the event Democrats secure the Senate, too, the Times suggested they block future political appointees and, of course, Supreme Court nominees. The editorial said only judges who “uphold the law” should be confirmed, which of course means judges who will reliably side with Democrats in their blood-thirsty crusades to imprison their political opponents.
None of this will lower the cost of gas and groceries.
Government and affordability go together like Scotch and Jolly Ranchers.
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION:
🇦🇲 An Armenian parliament session turned into a brawl between deputies
Lawmakers in Armenia engaged in an all-out brawl in the middle of a parliamentary session between representatives of the ruling party and the opposition.
MPs even threw a chair at each other. pic.twitter.com/qK96k3accn
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 29, 2026
Honestly, I might prefer this kind of thing to almost any bipartisan backroom deal.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS SELF-MEDICATING: NYT: Obama Admin Had Evidence of Omar’s Bro-Husband.
Had or hid? Distinction without difference, I suppose.
MADE IN THE USA:
This is true everywhere in the West.
Palmer Luckey just launched BlueChip with Qualcomm, a laptop designed and assembled in the United States. The "analysts" told us an American computer would cost $100,000. Luckey says it'll cost about 20% more than a high-end PC. The gap… https://t.co/ErjUj6cNb7
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 29, 2026
“The pattern is always the same. Manufacture scarcity through law, call it protection, and tell everyone there’s no other way.”
HMM:
2020: the most secure election in history.
2026, five days out: Democrats warn Elon Musk and AI could rig the vote, so paper ballots are suddenly a great idea. These are the same paper ballots they fought for years.
This isn't election security. It's an excuse being built in…
— David Strom (@DavidStrom) October 29, 2026
MORE OF THAT MALE PRIVILEGE ON DISPLAY:
How can @MIT and President Kornbluth sit back and allow Kristin Knouse to remain on the MIT faculty when she has been found by a jury of her peers to have falsely accused him of rape, and intentionally destroyed his life and career with the help of co-conspirators in the MIT… https://t.co/Xq2T4zTPDZ
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) October 29, 2026
IT’S BIG: Cowboy Space unveils ‘Big Iron’ rocket to launch 20,000 AI data centers.
“It’s a fundamentally novel approach to rocketry in the modern era, in our opinion,” Bhatt said during the event. “The idea is that you have a two-stage rocket where the upper stage of the rocket itself transforms into the satellite.”
That rocket is called Big Iron, Bhatt told us on Monday night. And so is the data-center satellite, as both are considered to be part of the same system.
The stainless-steel rocket will be 282 feet (86 meters) tall and 15.4 feet (4.7 m) wide. It will be powered by Cowboy Space’s Clydesdale engines — nine in the first stage and one in the upper stage, the same configuration employed by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
The upper stage, meanwhile, will stay in orbit as a Big Iron satellite.
Novel approach — wish them luck.
THIS IS A VARIATION ON THATCHER’S RATCHET EFFECT, BUT MORE LAWLESS:
Republicans are learning that the law is a door that only swings in one direction. Democrats can do illegal and unconstitutional things — like enacting DACA, or putting noncitizens on voting rolls — but when Republicans try to undo these things, judges prevent them from doing so.
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2026
DIRTY TRICKS: Democrat Campaign Recruited ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan to Run in Alaska. “Now The New York Times is reporting that, in fact, Peltola’s campaign is responsible for the second Dan Sullivan entering the race, claiming to be a Republican despite his previous voting record. A Peltola staffer in summer 2025 acted upon instructions from top campaign aides to search out as many Dan Sullivans in Alaska as possible, The Times reported. The staffer put together a list.”
GOOD LORD:
The Democrats are corrupting jury pools before the election https://t.co/Lgnu8DAWyQ
— Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) October 28, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado voters hit a perfect storm of Prop NN distraction.
There’s a good chance you will never receive another TABOR tax refund for as long as you live.
If Proposition NN wins, whom should we blame? Three suspects: the car-wash pricing strategy, Victor Marx and Kyle Clark.
In any normal election, NN would lose easily. Whenever Colorado voters have been asked to surrender their tax refunds, they vote with their middle finger.
People enjoy keeping their own money. Go figure.
Tax-refund-grabbing Proposition CC failed in 2019 by nearly seven points. Its successor, Proposition HH, lost in 2023 by Yankees-versus-Rockies numbers: almost 19 points.
If politics had any consistency, NN would lose by even more. It is far more destructive than either CC or HH.
CC and HH would have “de-TABORed” Colorado, allowing the legislature to keep your tax refunds. But neither changed TABOR’s spending formula of population growth and inflation.
NN lets the legislature rewrite that formula whenever it wants.
Translation: If Colorado ever appears likely to collect excess revenue again, lawmakers can simply move the goalposts until the excess disappears. They keep the surplus. You don’t get a refund. No voters required.
This is a very big deal. Why is no one talking about it?
It’s no accident — there’s a distraction game going on, both on the ballot and in the local media.
DON’T MESS WITH BESSENT:
ICYMI: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had some extraordinary warnings for the Iranian people in an interview with Iran International the other day.
“Don’t pay your taxes because you’re not going to get anything back from the government.”
He also urged Iranians to prepare for… pic.twitter.com/24s31SiY4q
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 28, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Clinton-Appointed Judge Lends a Hand to California Voter Fraud. “The Department of Justice has been trying to clean up messes in California, a state that produces more messes than any other. Its latest effort just ran into one of the many Dem-appointed activist judges who are riddled with Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
SLOWLY, BUT IT IS HAPPENING: America’s Military Presence Reshapes Hormuz.
The tide is beginning to turn in the battle for the Strait of Hormuz—thanks to the U.S. military. It is performing two tasks superbly and simultaneously: the implementing of a naval blockade of Iran and facilitating the export of non-Iran oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
Excluding humanitarian shipments, the naval blockade has largely prevented Iranian imports or exports by sea, depriving it of $25 billion in crude-oil export revenue. That makes it more difficult for Iran to fund domestic repression, bankroll international terrorism and rebuild its military.
Meanwhile, about 400 merchant ships have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, while U.S. forces have helped Gulf partners ship more than 100 million barrels of crude oil over seven days. That’s possible because the U.S. military has decimated Iran’s navy, cleared the strait’s international shipping lanes of mines and degraded Tehran’s missile and drone capabilities.
It is too soon to declare mission accomplished.
Not sure how that happens so long as there’s enough of the Islamic Republic left to contest Hormuz.
WELL SAID:
I find it interesting that the people most unsuited for a paradigm where brutal violence is the determining factor in society are the ones who giggle as they promote it.
Careful what you wish for. https://t.co/z8VKYJCjKE
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 28, 2026
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BLUE STATE BLUES: Minecraft billionaire is latest California resident to flee state — as he offloads $70M Beverly Hills mansion.
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson is looking to unload his $70 million Beverly Hills megamansion, becoming the latest tech billionaire to loosen his ties to California as some of the state’s wealthiest residents head for the exits.
The Swedish gaming mogul, who famously outbid Beyoncé and Jay-Z for the trophy estate in 2014, is asking exactly what he paid 12 years ago — despite pouring millions more into upgrades, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The listing comes amid a broader retreat by some of California’s richest tech figures, with billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin establishing footholds in Florida as the Golden State grapples with a proposed wealth tax to be voted on next week.
The only thing more mobile than capital is the people with oodles of it.
DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ:
There is something seriously wrong at the BBC.
This is the headline they used for a Muslim peace activist who was murdered by an Islamist group for preaching against radicalism. https://t.co/c6atcvgUuW
— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 28, 2026