NICE WORK, FELLAS: Feds Arrest Would-Be ISIS Mass Shooter in Butler County, Pa.

SHE CARRIED OUT AN INTRICATE PLAN TO MURDER HER THREE CHILDREN:

Worse threat to the planet than AI. https://t.co/eUqQe0161X

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) September 15, 2026

THE CHURCHILL EFFECT: Yesterday’s Swedish Elections and Our Midterm Parallel.

Speculation is that part of what may have provided some of the malaise that led to the progressives eking out what may be a numbers win – remember, they still have to form a government and it looks to be extraordinarily difficult at the moment – is the success that the conservatives had in beginning to right the ship in such a short time.

This certainly sounded familiar to me.

Much more at the link, and here’s some background from last week: How to Virtually Eliminate Gang Violence With This One Weird Trick.

THE LEFT PROJECTS, ALWAYS:

Imagine thinking Sweeney & her glorious tits set women back when it's actually a bunch of pink hat "feminists" defending a mother who blames her hormones for filicide. https://t.co/YftKlsSLeT

— 🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@kimmie_c_) September 15, 2026

CORN, POPPED: A Federal Grand Jury Wants Six Years of Gavin Newsom’s Receipts.

INEVITABLE: A Visa Restriction Too Far.

Regular BattleSwarm readers know I’ve become quite the immigration hawk. All illegal aliens should be deported, NGOs that helped carry out the illegal alien invasion should be investigated, disbanded and their members prosecuted, the cost of applying for a H-1B visa should be raised above $100,000, and the government should crack down hard on companies (I’m looking at you, Microsoft) who have abused the H-1B system to avoid hiring Americans.

But now someone has finally come up with a crackdown idea that’s just stupid and counter-productive.

Even a smart and well-intentioned government will come up with some genuinely bad ideas. Keep it small and divided is the best defense.

DISPATCHES FROM TIM WALZ’S MINNESOTA:

WOAH 🚨 An addiction recovery center in Minnesota accused of stealing millions with fake Medicaid billing has just been exposed to have another account with $25 MILLION

They’ve used our stolen tax money to buy:

– 3 Minnesota homes
– $10.4 million in charges
– $3.5 million on… pic.twitter.com/yaE3QW7vZY

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 15, 2026

VENEZUELA: Is Delcy Coming to the United States?

NON-STORY: Costco nearly doubles cost of motor oil, limits purchases.

Costco’s Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil 5-quart two pack now costs around $58, well above the approximately $30 it had been selling for just last year, and limiting customers to buying two boxes a week. It is also limiting purchases of Mobil 1’s full-synthetic motor oil 1-quart six pack, which sells for about $44, to five per membership.

A price hike and purchase limits may take you back to the days of empty shelves where toilet paper once stood, but this likely won’t impact you as much as you may immediately fear.

Unless you’re responsible for “a fleet of thousands of cars,” you probably don’t have to worry about it much, Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, told Nexstar.

“The normal car requires four to five quarts every 5,000 miles or so,” De Haan said, describing Costco’s limit as “what would be an extremely reasonable amount.”

But putting that in the headline doesn’t generate as many clicks.

DON’T WORRY, THERE’S STILL ROOM FOR THINGS TO GET MORE ABSURD:

UK police caught harassing "gender-fluid Muslim woman" in burqa at anti-immigration protesthttps://t.co/VYt9oBLgpA

— Human Events (@HumanEvents) September 15, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Wisconsin Is Suing Trump for Asking Immigrants to Support Themselves.

PLENTY OF COOLING POTENTIAL: Should Data Centers Go Seasteading?

“Some developers are now exploring the ocean as a new location for AI infrastructure in the hopes that underwater data centers could improve energy use and cooling efficiency while using less fresh water and land area than onshore buildings,” writes University of North Carolina Greensboro management professor Nir Kshetri, who studies the social and environmental effects of emerging technology. He calls under-the-sea data centers “a promising new approach for supporting the growth of AI.”

Underwater data centers would be not technically be “seasteaders”—autonomous entities based far enough offshore that they’re not subject to the rules of any government.

Even if underwater data centers could be based physically far enough from shore that they’re not in anyone’s national waters—not necessarily impossible, but impractical, costly, and a logistical nightmare—they would still be subject to various rules of international waters and would still need cables connecting them to land. They would also be run by tech companies based within an existing country’s borders and subject to that country’s oversight and regulations.

Orbital data centers require no cables.

HE’S A RISK:

Keep him blocked.

We should probably block him and his administration from having access to the NYPD’s terrorism database too. https://t.co/UaLvNnr7KS

— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) September 14, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: SCOTUS Has a Sylvia Plath Episode Regarding Mail-In Ballots. “Just three weeks ago, I wrote here that the Supreme Court was attempting to preserve ‘a modicum of sanity’ in our thoroughly insane vote-by-mail lunacy. There were still a lot of legal challenges in the judicial pipeline and there were concerns about the timing of the changes to the rules. Last night, SCOTUS decided that the dangerous status quo was safe for now.”

PROGRESSIVISM AS A TEMPER TANTRUM, EXHIBIT #1,000,006: Pete Buttigieg Says Dems Must Pack SCOTUS Because It’s Too ‘Partisan.’ “This is Buttigieg complaining that the rules must be changed when they no longer favor Democrats. It’s the same argument they make about the Electoral College every time they lose a presidential election.”

His actual priorities while in office: Buttigieg says America’s highways are racist and infrastructure bill will help fix it.

I’d also add that if the “infrastructure” bill actually accomplished anything tangible and lasting — while Buttigieg was SecTrans — I’ve yet to hear of it.

HE’S LOSING IN 2028 TO THE WOMAN WHOSE CAMPAIGN FLOUNDERED BEFORE IOWA IN 2020:

He's desperate for an exit because surveys show him with no chance.

Gavin Newsom Won‘t Run in 2028 if Kamala Harris Does https://t.co/zwDFpujmD4 via @BreitbartNews

— Lonestarmango (@lonestarmango) September 14, 2026

Actually, Harris didn’t even make it all the way to Jan 1, 2020, much less Iowa.

ROBERT SPENCER: Islamic Scholar Says Grooming Gangs ‘Have Nothing to Do With Islam.’ (Except They Do.) “Hey, this is a relief: the Muslim grooming gangs that raped and assaulted over 250,000 British girls actually have nothing to do with Islam. So all you ‘Islamophobes’ need to sit down and shut up, because at last we have an Islamic voice speaking out loud and clear against these gangs, and not just any Muslim voice, either, but a leading Islamic scholar. There are still a few problems with this rosy scenario, but don’t worry: we’re really on our way now to our glorious multicultural future.”

ROGER KIMBALL: The Madness of the Anti-AI Crowd.

What is novel in many of our current perturbations is the behind-the-scenes interventions of more or less malevolent, and in many cases malevolent foreign, actors. The extraordinary popular delusions and madness of the COVID crowds is a case in point. Four or five years on, we have largely forgotten the mask-wearing, social-distancing, economy-blighting harridans of both sexes who acted as the enforcers of the COVID hysteria that China bequeathed us. It will soon be the same as the windmill-championing net-zero lunatics who have worked assiduously to dismantle Western prosperity. Are you surprised that China, Russia, and the Arab states eagerly abet the Greta Thunbergs of the world?

The latest delusional entertainment is the “AI-is-the-Antichrist” brigade. Two things happened last week to make this new panic snap into focus. First, frenetic socialist loudmouth Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (yes, really), want to impose a moratorium on what they call “artificial superintelligence.” And what if the AI companies of the world ignore them and persist? Sanders and Casar want the state to come down on them with draconian force. “Entities,” they write, “shall be subject to the corporate death penalty, and persons shall be subject to not more than 20 years in prison, which is similar to existing penalties related to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons.”

What’s that chuckling you hear backstage to the left? Why, that would be the tittering of Chairman Xi and his posse of Chinese AI developers. Bernie Sanders is doubtless one of their favorite American politicians.

If he wasn’t already, he certainly is now.

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ANARCHO-TYRANNY IN ONE TWEET:

I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that if you fly into Britain they make you go through customs and show you passport, but if you arrive by a small boat illegally, they give you free housing.

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) September 14, 2026

REGULATORY CAPTURE: The AI ‘Pause’ Might Not Be What You Think it Is.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Date the world will be destroyed and universe ends calculated by scientists.

The team predicts the Big Crunch will occur in approximately 33.3 billion years.

Given that the universe is currently 13.8 billion years old, Earth and all other planets have roughly 20 billion years before complete annihilation, according to the findings.

So cashing out the kids’ college fund and taking off for Vegas seems premature.

PROGRESSIVISM HAS ALWAYS BEEN RACIST, STARTING WITH EUGENICS OVER A CENTURY AGO:

Update: Sorry, but X is doing that random thing where it won’t embed a post. Instead, enjoy a lovely screenshot and this artisanal link to the original.

NOW WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? Nonprofits That Received Tax Dollars Unite to Oppose Rules Cracking Down on Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

ICYMI: Begun, the Bari Weiss Era at 60 Minutes Has… But for How Long?

OH: California woman discovers surrogate baby’s dad is reclusive Chinese billionaire who’s allegedly sired 300 children. “Judy eventually signed an agreement with Patriot Conceptions. She said the agency described the intended parent as a single father who wanted to grow his family.”

Patriot, eh?