HEY, BIG SPENDER: Georgia Bought a $954,578 Chevy, but Officials Won’t Say What’s Inside. “Georgia paid nearly $1 million for a Chevrolet Traverse. Only $38,705.25 bought the vehicle. The rest went to equipment officials won’t identify publicly, even as state lawmakers question whether a child-welfare agency should have technology normally associated with criminal investigations.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 13, 2026
OH: China increases border security over Russian plague. “Officials in the Chinese border city of Manzhouli said it was important to strengthen surveillance in partnership with port and customs authorities, to prevent the potential spread of disease as people and cargo travelled from Russia.”
THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF DEI IS TO REDUCE A HIGH-TRUST AND RESILIENT SOCIETY INTO SOMETHING LESS RESISTANT TO BEING CONTROLLED:
“Diversity is our strength” became a DEI dogma rather than a testable claim. Demographic diversity by itself rarely improves outcomes and can reduce trust, cohesion, and performance. What sometimes helps decision-making is intellectual and political diversity: clashing ideas… https://t.co/DrUVfIOEQs
— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) October 13, 2026
“‘Diversity is our strength’ became a DEI dogma rather than a testable claim. Demographic diversity by itself rarely improves outcomes and can reduce trust, cohesion, and performance. What sometimes helps decision-making is intellectual and political diversity: clashing ideas expose blind spots, challenge groupthink, and force better arguments.”
NIFTY: Meet Steelfin—Anduril Says It Can Deliver 80% of PAC-3 Capability for Less Than Half the Price.
Steve Milano, an Anduril representative, told The War Zone that the version intended to perform PAC-3-type missions could deliver roughly 80% of the interceptor’s capability for less than half the cost.
That price difference is central to Anduril’s pitch. Modern air defense systems face growing pressure from large missile and drone salvos, making the cost and availability of individual interceptors increasingly important.
Anduril says it intends to manufacture several thousand Steelfin missiles annually, using a common production base for multiple variants rather than building each configuration around an entirely separate industrial line.
If they can pull off that ramp-up, that would be truly impressive.
MAKE THIS HAPPEN, ELON:
If we aren’t going to be able to block foreign accounts on here by region at least put a little flag next to their avi so I don’t bother with these South Asia accounts. https://t.co/BOd5DgP9VK
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) October 12, 2026
But geo-blocking would still be better.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Ilhan Omar Had a Rough Non-Indigenous Peoples Day. “There might have been a time when I lamented Democrats and Republicans going back-and-forth at each other like this. That’s heavy on the ‘might’ there, by the way. That’s probably just me imagining that I was a lot more gracious at some point in the past.”
APPLYING OCCAM’S RAZOR TO THE TEXAS SENATE RACE MYSTERY:
The generational pussy shit explanation may indeed be the real one. https://t.co/FHwfVDsHhx
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 13, 2026
OLD HABITS DIE HARD: The Arrest of a OK Guardsman for Carrying a Gun Shows More Adult Supervision Needed in Washington, DC. “According to an account from the Associated Press, on September 28, a 22-year-old off-duty specialist with the Oklahoma Guard deployed to Washington, D.C., as part of an ongoing safety task force was traveling in an SUV with another National Guard member when they were stopped by U.S. Park Police over an expired tag. Upon approaching the vehicle, the officer reportedly saw an empty holster inside. When the guardsman was asked if there was a firearm in the vehicle, he responded in the affirmative.”
WELL, THAT WAS UNEXPECTED:
BREAKING: In new ad, James Talarico calls out Joe Biden “for failing us at the border” pic.twitter.com/MgGCUJFy33
— Kalshi Politics (@KalshiPolitics) October 12, 2026
THE INTERNET OF DANGEROUSLY CONNECTED THINGS:
I’m sorry, but hackers remotely turning off refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets and destroying all their fresh and frozen food is INSANE. We’ve connected so much of our physical world to the internet that apparently even keeping milk cold is now a cybersecurity… https://t.co/4g9SYvTlsb
— Rushi (@rushicrypto) October 12, 2026
UPDATE. (FROM GLENN):
UPDATE (FROM STEVE): Glenn’s embedded post refused to embed, so please enjoy this lovely screencap.
XI’S GOTTA HAVE IT: Chinese carmakers increasingly rely on overseas markets as September exports surge.
China’s passenger car exports surged 64% in September from the same month in 2025, an industry association reported Monday, as Chinese automakers increasingly focus on exports to drive growth at a time of sluggish domestic sales.
China exported around 919,000 passenger vehicles in September, lifted by overseas demand for plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed. In the first nine months of 2026, China exported over 7.1 million passenger cars, up more than 70% compared with the same period last year.
Meanwhile, domestic passenger car sales in China have fallen for most of the year as they face weaker consumer confidence at home and scaled back government subsidies. They declined 27% in September year-on-year to over 1.6 million units, according to the association.
Why is Trump the only national leader who seems to understand that tariffs hit right at China’s achilles heel?
HE DIDN’T MEAN HIS MONEY: El-Sayed Wants “Money Out of Politics.” A New Ad Shows Who’s Funding Him.
October 12, 2026
PRIORITIES:
NY rejects 16,000 Trump ICE detainers for illegal migrants accused or convicted in over 52,000 crimes https://t.co/z1JTRVrAqN pic.twitter.com/S541PQFwk4
— New York Post (@nypost) October 12, 2026
ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did the Soviet Union really fire a cannon from a space station? “At the time, Soviet officials were concerned that the United States was already developing spacecraft that could approach, investigate, and either capture or disable Moscow’s sensitive satellites. The natural response to such concerns was to develop defense systems capable of neutralizing such threats — and the result became legendary in some circles as one of the strangest weapons of the Space Race. But was this Soviet ‘space cannon’ ever successfully fired in orbit?”
I MEAN, WHEN YOU’RE A PROGRESSIVE DEM AND YOU CATCH THE EYE OF BIDEN’S DOJ…:
Friendly reminder…
The Biden DOJ launched an investigation into Ilhan Omar in 2024 over her finances, campaign spending, and dealings with a foreign citizen.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. pic.twitter.com/pZ0hPrLxQI
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 12, 2026
SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Publisher removes 200 papers University of Chicago statistician wrote in under 1 year.
Scholars are raising questions about AI usage and academic quality after University of Chicago statistician Nicholas Polson wrote more than 200 academic papers this year using AI.
“The question needs to be: do these add anything of value and should we rely on them or not?” Ivan Oransky told The College Fix in a recent interview. Oransky is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks academic retractions, and a New York University journalism professor.
A tenured professor, Polson’s papers primarily focus on advanced math and statistics such as statistical parameterization and financial markets. Some of his research highlighted on the University of Chicago’s website includes measuring the “energy cost” of using AI and analyzing the odds of cheating.
Recently, however, concerns about the large number of articles Polson was producing prompted SSRN, a pre-print server for academic papers, to retract 253 papers that he wrote or co-wrote within the past year, The Washington Post reported.
In comparison, he wrote 10 published papers in 2018, 14 in 2017, and 12 in 2016, according to the “Research” page on his website.
When asked why it removed his papers, SSRN told the Post, “The most significant issue was the unusual submission activity.”
Heh, yes.
THE GOOD NEWS, MR. POTENTIAL ASYLUM-SEEKER, IS THAT THE GAZA ARABS MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY BUILDINGS LEFT TALL ENOUGH TO BOTHER THROWING YOU OFF OF…:
🇪🇸 A member of the Spanish LGBTQ+ community, draped in a Palestinian flag, says he'll seek political asylum in Gaza if the right wins the election 🙄 pic.twitter.com/JfOgbmFzrk
— Prof. Math & CS (@Zeev81309559) October 12, 2026
…the bad news is they’ll find a way, regardless.
VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa Records Ambush of ICE Officer in Biggest Self-Own Since the Last Time She Did It. “What a day of historic immigration firsts: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) releases 15,000 criminal illegal aliens into your neighborhood gen pop again after refusing to enforce Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, and suspected illegal alien Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C. home is raided by the feds to track down the documents her family used to allegedly fraudulently get into the country. But something that’s not a first, and should be a last, are the crimes committed by an Oregon woman who has organized ambushes of ICE agents before and who has just done it again.”
HEH:
Trump Tells Liberals Uncomfortable With Public Execution To Just Imagine It's A Healthcare CEO https://t.co/1QVONVPI1h
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 12, 2026
Still, Hasan should be hung like a common criminal, and not shot like a soldier.