Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 16, 2026
MOVING AT THE SPEED OF GOVERNMENT:
You could open 46 Aldi grocery stores for this amount of money and much, much quicker.
Government sucks.
It has no business opening a grocery store because it can't … government creates nothing.It only takes. https://t.co/3rdPBaNHk5
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) April 16, 2026
If you’re going to spend $30 million just to not open one grocery store for three years — assuming no delays! — then the money isn’t going to a grocery store.
OUCH:
The rial is at its weakest ever: 1.6M to the dollar — on track for 2M, faster than expected.
Hyperinflation. Mass unemployment. War damage above 40% of GDP. $13B lost every month under blockade (see @FDD @miadmaleki @ElaineDezenski Dan Swift).
The regime is staring at economic…
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 15, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE: The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first? “The two landers will arguably be the most ambitious robotic missions ever sent to the Moon. The Endurance spacecraft, built by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin, will become the largest lunar lander in history, exceeding the size of NASA’s Apollo lunar module that ferried crews to and from the lunar surface more than 50 years ago. China’s Chang’e 7 mission will feature a smaller lander, but the project also includes an orbiter, rover, and a hopper drone to scout for hidden ice deposits.”
FACE, MEET PALM:
‼️🇪🇺 The EU's new Age Verification app was hacked with little to no effort.
When you set it up, the app asks you to create a PIN. But that PIN isn't actually tied to the identity data it's supposed to protect. An attacker can delete a couple of entries from a file on the phone,… pic.twitter.com/kqaC7rfFwa
— International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest) April 16, 2026
But other than that, how’s the security on your app, Mrs. von der Leyen?
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.
REQUIRED READING:
⚡️The thing underneath all of this that nobody will touch is that society decided men were the problem and then acted surprised when men started disappearing.
For thirty years the cultural message aimed at men has been some version of you are the issue. Toxic masculinity. Male… https://t.co/1jqRHTZ0Cm
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) April 15, 2026
Make men men again.
GAS: Sixth day with a drop in fuel costs over the last seven days. “Fuel costs were a little more than 1 cent per gallon cheaper compared to Wednesday’s price of $4.108 per gallon. Gas prices were over seven cents per gallon lower than a week ago, when regular gas cost $4.166 per gallon, according to AAA. This week marks the first time since February that the national average price for a gallon of regular gas was less expensive than the previous week.”
THE GOLDEN STATE IS A BANANA REPUBLIC:
The California Supreme Court sent a clear and terrorizing message:
If attorneys represent disfavored political candidates who challenge disputed elections, California will disbar them.
While this happens in failed third-world countries, this should never happen in America. https://t.co/AuMtAULoIy
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 15, 2026
TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Won’t Jon Ossoff Condemn Hasan Piker?
“MEN DON’T READ!” NO, WE JUST DON’T READ WHAT PROGRESSIVE WOMEN PUBLISH:
What the NYRB article about Passage leaves out is that the publishing industry has become utterly DOMINATED by women and leftist sensibilities.
Any meaningful correction to that is going to look reactionary to the people swimming in the fishbowl (NYRB’s editors, eg). https://t.co/mKXiqRM2bK pic.twitter.com/ckeda0eK1k
— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 16, 2026
IT CERTAINLY OUGHT TO: Vulcan woes will “absolutely” be a factor in Pentagon’s next rocket competition.
The US Space Force is still dealing with the near-term implications of the second grounding of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket in less than two years. The experience is likely to influence how the Pentagon buys launch services in the future, a three-star general said Tuesday.
The Vulcan rocket is one of the two primary launch vehicles the Space Force uses to put satellites into orbit, alongside SpaceX’s Falcon 9. Despite a backlog of nearly 70 launches, ULA’s Vulcan has flown just four times since debuting in January 2024.
On two of those flights, the Vulcan launcher suffered anomalies with one of its solid rocket boosters. One of the booster’s exhaust nozzles blew off in the first incident in October 2024. The same problem appeared to occur again during a Vulcan launch in February of this year. The rocket continued flying after both incidents, ultimately reaching each mission’s targeted orbit.
But the nozzle malfunctions suggest something is seriously amiss at ULA and its booster supplier, Northrop Grumman. The Vulcan rocket is many months from returning to flight for the US military. One industry source told Ars that the Space Force may not fly another mission on Vulcan before the end of the year.
Lt. Gen. Philip Garrant, head of the Space Force’s Space Systems Command, said the Vulcan rocket’s reliability woes are top of mind among the military’s space leadership. On Tuesday, Garrant told Ars the experience with Vulcan “absolutely will shape” the military’s thinking the next time the Pentagon buys launch services.
The Pentagon shouldn’t have to lean too hard on any single supplier, but there’s also nobody delivering like SpaceX.
YES:
Exactly.
By raising the issue, it makes people look at what Pope Leo is saying and what Pope Leo is saying is leftist nonsense. https://t.co/1ZB9qbwOCc
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 16, 2026
And here’s some additional perspective:
You are quote tweeting somebody who worked for an administration that sued Catholic nuns to try and force them to give contraceptives to their employees.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 16, 2026
AMAZING HOW QUICKLY THEY WENT FROM “PUNCH A NAZI” TO “NOMINATE ONE”: The Man With the Nazi Tattoo Is Blowing up the Democratic Party.
YEP:
We can’t deport Haitians because then a Chinese meat packing cartel wouldn’t be able pay their federally subsidized foreign workforce less than a Sheetz cashier
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 16, 2026
WOW:
BREAKING: Lebanese TV displays the flags of Israel and Lebanon.
Truly unprecedented.
Real peace is on the horizon. pic.twitter.com/ef8PpshiVE
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 16, 2026
REALLY, ALL I NEED IS A CUP OF DECENT COFFEE WITH MAYBE A LITTLE CREAM: Starbucks’ ChatGPT experiment could quietly reshape how people order coffee.
Starting April 15, users will be able to turn to ChatGPT for help deciding on their next Starbucks order through a new integration with the coffee chain. To activate the feature, users simply tag @starbucks within a chat with the AI agent to trigger the new in-platform beta Starbucks app.
Users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to offer drink order advice based on mood, cravings, or even an image. For instance, a user might prompt ChatGPT with “@starbucks I’m looking for an iced pick me up,” with the LLM then suggesting an Iced Dragon Energy Drink alongside 5 additional options.
“Over the past year, one thing has become clear: customers aren’t always starting with a menu. They’re starting with a feeling,” Paul Riedel, senior vice president, digital & loyalty at Starbucks wrote in a blog post announcement.
A real boon for people who need help with this sort of thing, I suppose.
EPIC FURY: Trump’s Iran Blockade Just Got Bigger.
REMINDER: THE POINT OF OUR CURRENT ELECTION LAW ISN’T NECESSARILY TO STEAL EVERY ELECTION, BUT TO DISCREDIT THE SYSTEM:
Do no ID, no update of voter rolls, automatic mail-in ballots to everyone, ballot drop-boxes and "ballot harvesting" make our elections more secure or less secure?
And if fraud occurs under such rules, is it identifiable as such?
Perhaps the purpose of the ridiculously… https://t.co/M4J3ai4VcP
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 16, 2026
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Vance-led anti-fraud panel shutters 447 hospices in LA. “The figure includes 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies. Collectively, the facilities accounted for roughly $600 million in public funds fraud.”
BIDEN FORGOT THEM WHILE THEY WERE STILL GOING ON:
The liberal effort to forget the Biden years is kind of amazing. https://t.co/EAHEMWGVIR
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) April 16, 2026