NO OTHER WAY OUT AT THIS POINT:
There will be war. My son is a firefighter. If that were happening to him, and the crowd sat around and watched, I would be their mortal enemy. https://t.co/MvB4tWJFiS
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 1, 2026
And the screencap:
It’s already war.
DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Problem: Labour Is Deeply Unpopular For Importing Unassimilated Muslims. Solution: Import More Unassimilated Muslims.
PLEASE, BARACK, WON’T YOU GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO MISS YOU?
Toxic, bitter former President who spent eight years dividing this nation is wondering how the nation got so toxic, divided, and bitter. https://t.co/m90Gl1V9ba
— 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝔂 (@2CynicAl65) October 1, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Virginia AG is Making the Process the Punishment in the Old Dominion’s War on Guns.
Jay Jones, the anti-gun but pro-bullets to the head Virginia attorney general, announced on September 15 the creation of the Firearms Accountability & Industry Responsibility Unit within the Civil and Criminal Justice & Public Safety Divisions of his office. The unit’s job will be to bring civil enforcement actions against firearm industry members under the recently enacted Virginia Firearm Industry Standards of Responsible Conduct.
True to the Orwellian spirit of the gun control enterprise, the process promises to be anything but fair. The fact that the AG’s office is spinning up an entire unit to target a lawful and constitutionally protected business sector begs the question, just what are Virginia’s gun dealers doing wrong? The answer, under Virginia’s new legislation, is that they’ll find out when they get sued for it.
Gun bans get most of the attention when it comes to firearm policy, and this applies to both sides of the issue. But with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to determine the constitutionality of banning some of the nation’s most popular firearms, gun prohibition advocates are already planning their next offensive. Their target is the U.S. firearms industry, already one of the most heavily regulated in the country.
As Virginia’s law illustrates, however, compliance with known rules will no longer be enough under the new regime.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” the old checkist is supposed to have said.
“OBSCENE” IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR “MORE THAN WE HAVE”:
🚨Just in: Chuck Schumer says Republicans would Steal the Midterms Elections
He said: “Two things could have us to lose. One, they steal the election. The second thing is money. They have obscene amounts of money.” pic.twitter.com/mCTtv5xbfc
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) October 1, 2026
It is not obscene when the Democrats have more because reasons.
WHEN YOU’RE A SOCIALIST WHO’S LOST JAYAPAL…: ‘I’m not confident she knows what she is doing’: Pramila Jayapal questioned socialist Seattle mayor’s competence during mass shooting response.
COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:
“We’ll make sure no non-Muslims live in our city.”
How?
By charging a “service fee”, and funneling 75% of it to the mosque.
“We’ll name our streets after the greatest Islamic conquerors, like Khalid bin al-Waleed.”
“If they keep saying Muslims want to take over… pic.twitter.com/DDKXg7i9Ng
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) September 29, 2026
The clip is from 2024, but it’s also timeless.
SURE WOULD BE NICE IF WE HAD THE SPARE REFINING CAPACITY TO HANDLE THESE LITTLE COMPLICATIONS: Persian Gulf crude oil flows have largely recovered. For diesel and gasoline, it’s more complicated.
Exports of crude oil have begun to normalize in the Persian Gulf, bringing some relief to global buyers. But in the refined market for products such as diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel, analysts say the picture looks tighter, more expensive, and slower to recover.
While crude oil exports from the Persian Gulf region have returned to roughly 98% of their pre-war levels, product exports — of diesel, gasoline, and other derivatives — have recovered only to roughly 3 million barrels per day, or about 58% of their pre-war levels. Goldman Sachs analysts led by Daan Struyven peg that figure lower, at roughly 50% of their 2025 average.
“The crude market has largely normalized even as refined product supplies remain constrained,” JPMorgan analysts led by Natasha Kaneva wrote to clients.
Hell, it would be nice if we just had enough refining capacity.
LOVELY:
After the first Falcon 1 rocket exploded 33 seconds after launch in March 2006, Elon Musk did something that his employees did not expect. He personally called the family members of the engineers who had worked on the rocket.
Not the engineers. Their families.
The engineers…
— Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) September 30, 2026
This stands out:
Elon called to tell them everyone was safe. That the failure was a known risk. That the team would try again. That their family member had done extraordinary work and the explosion was not a reflection of their ability.
One engineer’s wife said the call lasted 4 minutes. She said Elon sounded tired but calm. She said he didn’t minimize the failure or exaggerate the optimism. He stated the facts and said “your husband is brilliant and we are going to fly again.”
They did indeed.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A COMPLIMENTARY COCKTAIL: Netanyahu Confirms Hijacker Had ‘Islamist Radical Indoctrination.’
IT’S LIKE THEY’RE TRYING TO LOSE: GOP budget chairman contenders put revenue raises on the table.
The two Republicans vying to take over from House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) are pushing hard for a bipartisan fiscal commission to close federal deficits, with both of them saying that all options, including revenue raisers, are on the table.
Their positioning represents a break with the stance of many Republicans in years past that tax hikes should not be considered.
The Washington Examiner interviewed Reps. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) and Blake Moore (R-UT) to discuss their visions for the committee if chosen to be either chairman, if Republicans retain control of the House in November, or the ranking member, if the GOP loses. Both congressmen vowed to pursue a fiscal commission tasked with addressing the rising federal debt should they get the gavel.
Say it with me now: Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem.
USA! USA! USA!
What a heartwarming story. More of this, please. https://t.co/hDYEykKNEz
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) October 1, 2026
And from the replies: “Even as a gay man, a pride flag is now a red flag.”
FIRST THE F-47, AND NOW THIS: US Navy selects Boeing to build next-generation F/A-XX fighter.
Inked at $20 billion for the full-scale development phase, the contract, according to a Pentagon release, “procures multiple test aircraft for ground, airworthiness, systems, and weapons integration testing.”
“The F/A-XX is a critical pillar in our commitment to maintaining peace through strength,” Michael P. Duffey, under secretary of defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, said in the release. “F/A-XX will dominate contested airspace, extend operational reach, and deliver a decisive combat advantage for the warfighter.”
Equipped with an extended range to provide power projection from U.S. carriers, Boeing has promised that the F/A-XX will, crucially, be interoperable with both manned and unmanned platforms such as Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Starliner is still a bit of a mess, but Boeing’s more recent efforts seem to have the company on a roll.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
This is a sentence that should literally never be written.
Fairfax County taxpayers are paying someone more than 3x the national median household income to run and office whose sole purpose is to racially discriminate against students.
If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not… pic.twitter.com/tgHoXavakd
— ROOZ (@ROOZVA) September 30, 2026
“If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not sure what will.”
TO BE FAIR, BECERRA WAS ALWAYS MOCKABLE: Hilton Mocks Becerra for Saying Tax Breaks for Those Earning Under $150K Benefit ‘the Wealthiest.’
SHE MIGHT JUST BE THE SHARPEST OPERATOR IN HOLLYWOOD RIGHT NOW: Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to $2B. “Novig had built a small audience from its podcast and clinched a partnership with the New York Mets, but the platform took off after the “Euphoria” actress signed on as an equity investor and posed in her birthday suit for the company’s ads, which went viral online.”
Equity investor, you say?
Sharp, indeed.
THE RAPE CULTURE MYTH:
Let’s take a moment, in light of the Cornell “rape case” hysteria, to savor the dilemmas facing the activists and academics who promote the idea of “rape culture.” If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do…
— Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) October 1, 2026
More:
If there is indeed a “culture of rape” at elite institutions, as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez recently reaffirmed, why do female students flock into them? Cornell’s student body went from a little under 50 percent female in 2005 to nearly 54 percent female in 2025. The hoary (no pun intended) statistic bandied about relentlessly during the height of 2010’s campus rape frenzy—that one in four female undergraduates would be sexually assaulted during her college years—signifies a level of criminal sexual violence unheard of even during African tribal wars.
Yet instead of demanding a massive expansion of single-sex schools where they could study safely, females keep trooping in to co-ed colleges and, even more inexplicably in light of the received feminist wisdom, into the frat parties that are allegedly hot beds of rape. Either females are too stupid to take the most basic of precautions or there is no rape crisis and they know it. The same goes for their status-hungry mothers: why are they sending their daughters into such a maelstrom of violence? Answer: that violence does not exist.
Of course it doesn’t. “Rape culture” was never anything more than a cudgel for browbeating men.
But out of an abundance of caution, have you considered pursuing an online degree?
IT’S EARLY YET, BUT ROBERT SPENCER ALREADY HAS MY FAVORITE HEADLINE OF THE DAY: A Connecticut Jihadi in an Obama Judge’s Court.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX set to launch Google AI chips into orbit in push toward space-based data centers.
The launch is scheduled for 11:15 am PT from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California’s Santa Barbara County.
SpaceX has promoted supercomputers in space as the next frontier in artificial intelligence infrastructure, touting “infinite real estate” in orbit as a means of escaping the data center backlash on the ground. During the uncrewed Transporter-18 mission, SpaceX will carry Planet Labs satellites, including a solar-powered prototype equipped with Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs).
It marks the first in-orbit test for Alphabet’s Project Suncatcher, a “moonshot” initiative Google first revealed in November 2025. The company aims to develop reliable, solar-powered AI computing infrastructure that can operate continuously in space.
Maybe not “infinite real estate,” but lots of it — and with far fewer complaints from the locals.
STILL NOT SICK OF ALL THE WINNING:
Trump declared TICK AND MOSQUITO DEATH as policy pic.twitter.com/YRXE0fibX8
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) September 30, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Friend of My Enemy — Iran Wants Americans to Vote for Dems. “There isn’t anything to read between the lines here. The people who refer to the United States as the ‘Great Satan’ and have vowed to destroy us would feel more comfortable with Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries in charge of Congress. We don’t have many dots to connect in this one.”
HMM: Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model. “While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.”
If true, I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m happy to use Grok, GPT, and Claude for their various strengths, but could never find a reason to use Gemini.
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