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March 11, 2026
IRAN: What Happens When the Money Runs Out? “Iran’s Asaluyeh gas and petrochemical complex is the largest in the world and an economic powerhouse, providing more than half of the regime’s income via LNG and petchem exports. While “next payroll” and “no more oil exports to China” might prove to be exaggerations, any reduction in shipping from Asaluyeh — plainly seen in those images — presents Tehran with a serious cash-flow problem.”
THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS: Nearly 28,000 Colorado concealed carry permits issued in 2025.
Despite a Democrat-led state legislature hostile to the lawful carrying of concealed handguns, new data show at least 27,901 Coloradans still subjected themselves to the government scrutiny and costs required to become concealed handgun permit (CHP) holders in 2025, while another 21,871 renewed existing permits. That’s according to a recently published County Sheriffs of Colorado annual report.
Notably, the report lacks data from Adams, Garfield, Pueblo and San Juan counties, which combined accounted for over 5,000 new permits in the prior year, meaning the numbers for 2025 may well be under-reported.
Regardless, while the number of new permits trails the 29,495 issued in 2024, it outpaces the 25,218 issued in 2023.
The Crime Prevention Research Center in 2025 estimated that over 19 percent of the Colorado population 21 or older holds a carry permit. A CHP is valid for five-years.
It’ll be difficult to pump up those rookie numbers with the new statewide restrictions and requirements imposed by Democrats in Denver.
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
Ok so in the news this week it's quite clear the UK is undergoing a Cultural Revolution.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution attacked "The 4 Olds" in an attempt to destroy the past.
The UK is no different. The 4 Olds of the UK:
1. Old History – removal of historic figures from…— James Clark 📈📉¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@mr_james_c) March 11, 2026
Not your father’s Britain. It isn’t even the Britain I visited 20 years ago.
CHANGE: YouTube is now the world’s largest media company, and it is only getting bigger. “The video-streaming service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., took the top spot last year with $62.3 billion in revenue, according to data compiled by MoffettNathanson Research, narrowly beating out the $60.9 billion brought in by Disney’s media properties.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Not a Phobia If They Keep Showing Up With Bombs. “Between Operation Epic Fury and the latest daily outrage from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, there are plenty of opportunities for oh-so-concerned leftists to shout ‘Islamophobia!’ from the hills. It’s the golden ticket for terrorist types — any criticisms of them can be met with with a quick charge of Islamophobia and that’s supposed to end the conversation.”
PRIORITIES: Seattle may have to ‘delay or defer’ transportation projects to pay for anti-ICE signs.
Nope, not the Bee:
The city of Seattle may need to “delay or defer” transportation projects or programs because of the expense of installing hundreds of signs warning that city property cannot be used by federal authorities for immigration enforcement actions.
A fiscal note provided for Tuesday’s (March 10) Public Safety Committee meeting states, “To the extent that appropriations made in the 2026 Adopted Budget support other activities, and for which SDOT cannot find efficiencies / savings to otherwise support, SDOT may have to delay or defer projects or programs to free up funding for the signage costs that will be incurred pursuant to this legislation. Cost for signage is indeterminate at this point as FAS has not yet completed a review of all the properties that would be covered by this legislation.”
The Seattle Department of Transportation is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of Seattle streets, roadways and bridges, in addition to running two streetcar lines.
The note does not list possible potential cuts that could be made by the SDOT.
A Feb. 24 city council research staff memo said that the posting of 656 signs on city property was expected to cost SDOT $45,000 to produce the signs and an unspecified amount to install them.
If the city wants to blame delays on $45,000 worth of pointless virtue signaling, you have to wonder A) what the real reason is, or B) where the project money actually went.
Maybe both.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO KEEP SELLING ME, I ALREADY VOTED FOR HIM:
The Pakistani-American columnist Wajahat Ali warns that Pakistanis no longer wish to immigrate to the United States 'thanks to Trump.'
🇺🇸🇵🇰 pic.twitter.com/vK9mpquaQ1
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 11, 2026
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Trump takes his war against Thomas Massie straight to his home Kentucky home district.
Trump endorsed Massie’s primary opponent, Ed Gallrein, who will be at the event in Hebron, Ky., per his campaign. The president will also be making a stop in Ohio.
“You can have differences, but you have to be constructive. He is not constructive. In fact, he’s the Democrats’ favorite member,” a senior administration official told The Post.
Massie has outraged the White House on multiple occasions: he refused to support Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which was the president’s signature domestic policy agenda; he criticized Trump’s foreign policy and accused him of executive overreach on the attacks on drug boats and Iran; and he led the charge on demanding the Justice Department release all its files in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Now Trump is going to Massie’s district along the Ohio River to campaign against him, with the primary election just a little more than two months away, on May 19th.
Previously: Does This Mahrouq Money Explain Thomas Massie?
BLUE STATE BLUES:
DEVELOPING: Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announces that his family is leaving Seattle for Florida the same day Democrats passed an income tax on Washington state
Starbucks corporate is moving to Nashville
The wealth exodus is underway. Democrats have killed WA's economy pic.twitter.com/4O8Dk0tPaI
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) March 11, 2026
March 10, 2026
MORE NUKES IS GOOD NUKES: NRC Issues Construction Permit for TerraPower’s Natrium Advanced Reactor. “This is the first construction permit ever issued by the NRC for a commercial non-light-water power reactor and represents a historic step toward deployment of a new generation of advanced reactors in the United States.’
Faster, please.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Iran Warns U.S. It Has Huge Stockpile Of Supreme Leaders https://t.co/8CW8Xhmu0z pic.twitter.com/W1Ffn9v8Pc
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 10, 2026
DON’T BE SO QUICK TO REPLACE HUMANS WITH AI:
so amazon's fix for ai breaking prod is… more humans? thought we were past that lol, what does that say about where ai coding tools actually are rn
— AndreWGMI (@AndreWGMI) March 10, 2026
Always, always, always keep a human in the loop.
NICE:
Gen. Dan Caine on Operation Epic Fury: To date, we've struck more than 5,000 targets. Iranian ballistic missile attacks are down 90% and one-way attack drones are down 83%. We've struck more than 50 Iranian naval ships. pic.twitter.com/0tRSYbmVjI
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 10, 2026
We still weren’t properly prepared for Shahed drones though, even after years of watching the Russo-Ukraine War,
FINGERS CROSSED: Will Colombia Follow Its Neighbors and Make a Right-Wing Comeback?
MY X FEED HAS SEEMED MUCH IMPROVED LATELY:
The X platform takes a swipe at the Kremlin's massive disinformation operations, banning 800 million accounts, mostly Russian. pic.twitter.com/Jtxm3bR311
— SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre (@StratcomCentre) March 9, 2026
THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS JUST HAPPENED SEVEN MORE TIMES: ICE arrests illegal migrant who allegedly fraudulently voted in seven federal elections. “DHS said Mahady Sacko, who came to the United States illegally from the African country of Mauritania, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and the FBI in Philadelphia. He has been charged with voter fraud.”
DHS using “criminal illegal alien” in its statement is a nice change from the Biden years.
HMM:
“MAJOR THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN IRAN, ON THE SCALE OF THE BEEPERS”
Former Mossad official and JCFA researcher, @Sagivasulin2025, says: “I can say that big things have happened in Iran, on the scale of the beepers and perhaps even more. They may not photograph as dramatically, but… pic.twitter.com/U3C0MexqaU
— Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (@jerusalemcenter) March 10, 2026
I guess if it’s bigger than Operation Grim Beeper, eventually we’ll find out what it was.