HE’S DEAD, JIM: Iran president met supreme leader in darkness — and isn’t convinced it was him. “Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was whisked to a secret location in Tehran, shoved into the back seat of a dark car with blacked-out windows and told he was sitting next to Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — except he never actually saw the man, according to a bombshell report from Iran International.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 6, 2026
YES:
Despite all of the histrionics leading up to the primary, look at how Democrats fall in line. Do you notice that there's no #NeverAbdul movement?
Let's put the rest this ridiculous lie that Republicans fall in line and Democrats fall in love. The opposite is true. https://t.co/jbI77QS2Bo
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) August 6, 2026
HERE WE GO AGAIN: AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident.
Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to plant malicious code during testing by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) –– the latest example of an AI model going rogue.
Anthropic and OpenAI models were tested with lowered security guardrails in lab environments, but, in a first, were found to engage in “social engineering” to pressure a human approver while carrying out an unsanctioned task, the government research lab said.
“This is the first time AISI has seen deception of this severity that was targeted at a real person, unprompted, in the real world,” the institute said Tuesday. There has been no evidence of real-world harm, it added.
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In the most serious incident, the agent attempted to get approval from human reviewers to “insert malicious code into a publicly used open-source project” by creating “multiple fake identities,” according to the institute.
Keep a close eye on those human reviewers for any likely to succumb to AI “social engineering.”
THE MENSHEVIKS NEVER LEARN THAT THEY’RE ALWAYS THE FIRST ONES UP AGAINST THE WALL:
The Mensheviks are not having a good day.
And not for the last time.https://t.co/pEjNHImOjP
— Will Collier (@willcollier) August 5, 2026
IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING: No Guac for You: Security Alert Squeezes Mexican Avocado Pipeline to the U.S.
DEMOCRATS, I HATE THESE GUYS: Colorado gun sales surge ahead of permit-to-purchase scheme.
Democrats who worked to pass SB-003 took a victory lap in the days before the law took effect, arguing it will save lives.
“High-capacity magazines are what put the ‘mass’ into mass shootings, which is why over a decade ago Colorado Democrats passed legislation to prohibit magazines that hold over 15 rounds of ammunition,” Sen. Tom Sullivan, a prime sponsor of the bill, said in a statement. “This law further enforces that ban. It will save lives and increase safety for all Coloradans. The people of Colorado have mandated that we do something about the public health crisis that is gun violence, so that’s exactly what we’re doing.”
While the law officially took effect on August 1, the deadline to purchase was effectively July 28, since Colorado requires a three-day waiting period for all firearm purchases, the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA) pointed out.
“This is an attack at the very core of what it means to be an American,” CSSA Executive Director Huey Laugesen said in a statement. “For generations, the fundamental premise has been that our rights belong to the people — they are not privileges handed down by the government. Beginning August 1, Colorado will turn that principle on its head.”
CSSA, along with Mountain States Legal Foundation, are suing in federal court over the law with the case Del Toro v. Polis.
Whatever you think you know about Dem-dominated Colorado’s gun laws, it’s almost certainly worse.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems Might Regret Acting Like Trump Is on Midterms Ballot. “The old Republican playbook would have eschewed the use of a dig like ‘maniacs.’ The Trump playbook, however, was written to win. Call the commies commies, and never pass up a chance to point out that they’re unhinged”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX wants to launch next Starship this month (and catch it, too), Elon Musk says in 1st earnings call since historic IPO.
I’ll have more on this later today for PJ Media.
BLUE ORIGIN UPDATE:
Wanted to give an update on the hotfire anomaly investigation. Progress continues. The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines, which was later confirmed by hardware recovery and inspections. Extensive component-level and engine hotfire tests have…
— Dave Limp (@davill) August 5, 2026
More:
Extensive component-level and engine hotfire tests have been conducted to understand the failure mode better and inform mitigations. The path forward is clear. We’re making small modifications to the valve that can be quickly retrofitted to existing engines. We’re manufacturing the updated hardware, which will be ready by the end of this month. In parallel, we’re working through the remaining fault tree analysis.
Rebuilding LC-36 also seems to be progressing faster than many experts predicted. Great news, if true.
This new iteration of Blue Origin doesn’t exactly move at SpaceX speed, but they’ve picked up the pace.
SOMETHING A LITTLE LIGHTER FOR THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY [VIP]: One Small Family, One Smaller Puppy, One Major Battle.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: US District Court in Texas Rules That With $200 Tax Gone, NFA Registration is Unconstitutional.
A federal judge in Texas has ruled the 1934 National Firearms Act’s registration requirement, which has remained in force despite repeal of the enabling $200 tax, is unconstitutional, handing a victory to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
The ruling was issued Wednesday by District Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Donald Trump appointee. He serves in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
The case, known as Jensen v. ATF, was filed in October 2025 and is supported by the Second Amendment Foundation, which has a separate action known as Brown v. ATF and is also supporting another case known as Roberts v. ATF. In the Jensen case, CCRKBA is joined by the FPC Action Foundation, Texas Rifle Association, Hot Shots Custom and three individuals.
Congress acted last year to end the special federal tax on short-barreled rifles and suppressors as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill. The tax had enabled the NFA requirement under Congress’ authority to levy taxes. With the tax gone, there was no viable constitutional authority to continue registering SBRs and suppressors, compelling CCRKBA and its partners to take legal action.
Nice.
THEY MEAN IT:
DSA says“It’s a requirement now” for their candidates to support dismantling the US Government pic.twitter.com/R3A0c8TbCI
— DSA Watch (@DSA_Watch) August 5, 2026
THERE WERE DOUBTS? Israel Says Iranian Jihad Chief Confirms Nuclear Weapon Plans.
August 5, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Media Bullies Tate McRae for Possible MAGA Connection. “Here’s what started the absurd attacks. This is a quote from a new Variety profile, one where the interviewer pressed the apolitical star on, you guessed it, her political views.”
I TOLD YOU SO:
HOLY SHIT WHAT
Mamdani's "socialist" grocery stores are going to be run by private operators? And they receive the right to run the store from the government but then control the supply of discount cards themselves? And they have full discretion over purchasing and hiring…
— Swann Marcus (@SwannMarcus89) August 5, 2026
Of course, predicting that the latest For the People™ scheme is just another grift isn’t exactly a tough call.
MARK PENN: Socialist Mamdani sold a tax on billionaires. Regular homeowners could pay the price.
Because the Department of Finance’s initial roll sent notices to 960,000 property entries, primary residents are now forced to navigate bureaucratic hurdles to prove their exemption. The statute had a little-noticed provision that co-ops and condos qualify for the tax if the NYC Department of Finance computers identify their assessed value over $1 million. Presto chango — hundreds of thousands of New York homeowners were caught up in the initial mailing. And the surcharge on non-primary residences can reach up to 5% or more of market value annually.
So now add $50,000 a year in costs to a million-dollar non-primary condo. What are those owners going to do? Hit the sell, sell, sell button. Imposing steep surcharges on secondary condo owners could chill the broader housing market, reduce demand from out-of-town buyers and ultimately drag down property values across the board. In the end, local homeowners will pay the price through diminished equity. It’s simple economics.
The ’90s Clintonistas like Penn and James Carville are more or less in a panic about the commie takeover of the party they helped drag toward the DLC center.
But that was a long time ago, and Obama’s Red Diaper Brigades are taking over.
CHECKS OUT:
He loves them the same way OJ loved Nicole. https://t.co/kNPtunRCtu
— varifrank (@varifrank) August 5, 2026
ALL IN THE FAMILY: NY police bigwig was getaway driver for goon son in gangland shooting. “Jennifer Lackard, a deputy police commissioner with the Mount Vernon Police Department, was arrested at her home Tuesday morning, along with her son, Chase Lackard, 20, after the young man allegedly shot at a group of rivals near the Bronx Criminal Court on June 29 at 11:57 p.m, police said.”
WHEN YOU SEE IT ALL IN ONE LIST, YOU FINALLY UNDERSTAND THE LENGTH AND DEPTH OF JASON ARDAY’S LONG CON:
Updated
>be Jason Arday
>get diagnosed autistic at 3
>claim non-verbal until 11
>claim partial deafness in one ear & being taught to sign
>claim you couldn't read until 18, but still leave school w/ two GCSEs
>claim joining pro snooker tour at 10, one year before you could speak… https://t.co/FjpUq70HCm— Smirkley (@Smirkley) August 3, 2026
The scrolling required is not insignificant.
ATHENA THORNE REPORTS: Inside Obama’s Exclusive Fundraiser for the Democrats’ Redistricting War.
JOANNE JACOBS: From Jonah to Job, the Bible belongs in public schools.
You can’t really get Moby Dick (or Pinocchio) if you’ve never heard of Jonah and the Whale, writes Adam Kirsch in The Atlantic. You won’t understand why Harriet Tubman was called “Moses,” if you’re not familiar with the Exodus story. Bible stories belong in public school classrooms, he argues. Americans who don’t know about David and Goliath, Job, the parting of the Red Sea, the Sermon on the Mount and the Good Samaritan will not be prepared to understand America’s history or literature.
The new required-reading list in Texas has angered many liberals, who see it as “an attack on civil liberties and cultural diversity,” Kirsch writes. The state school board has framed the Bible stories as part of a “common literary canon,” not as religious instruction, but many are unpersuaded. A Dallas Morning News editorial called for including the Quran and the Bhagavad Gita, he writes.
Whether or not you’re a believer, the Bible is a foundational text of Western Civilization. The Quran isn’t, to say the very least.
THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM:
Literal communists are taking over a major party in this country and some people are like “You know? They kinda have a point about burrito prices.”
AYFKM?
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 5, 2026