PEOPLE SEE BUT THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND: Starship Just Became a Money Making Machine.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 28, 2026
MAYBE NOT LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Caliphate…
EXACTLY:
Uh-huh.
Tell that to Brian Thompson.
Or Charlie Kirk.
— Diana Villiers (@DianaVilliers1) September 27, 2026
HEY, BIG SPENDER: How Kathy Hochul’s admin handed firm a $1B Medicaid contract without competitive bidding.
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Department of Health had initially handed Deloitte Consulting a $177 million contract in 2023 to centralize a part of the Medicaid application process that was still being handled by counties into one statewide portal.
But the contract ballooned well beyond that as the administration amended the deal by $866 million in August — a move watchdogs say should have triggered a public bidding process.
…
“Once it is complete, this platform will save state taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars while allowing us to strengthen the program and reduce the potential for waste, fraud and abuse,” the DOH spokesperson said.
That’s what they always say.
THE NEW SPACE RACE HAS SECURITY PARAMETERS THAT SIMPLY DIDN’T EXIST DURING THE FIRST ONE:
BREAKING: The U.S. Space Force is bringing laser weapons to Cape Canaveral to shoot down drones threatening one of America’s most important launch sites.
Space Launch Delta 45 confirmed that Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is adding directed-energy systems capable of… pic.twitter.com/vD0SiCw1VK
— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) September 26, 2026
ALL I KNOW IS, IT’S GOTTEN TOO COMPLICATED FOR CASUAL FANS: College Football Got Dramatic This Weekend. Is This the New Normal?
HMM: Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Villager tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men.
“I just thought what the hell are they doing… I saw a group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys running off through the trees. Some of them had masks or balaclavas on, and they all scattered ahead of us as we drove back past.
“Some of them ran into the fields, and some of them turned to run towards the air base. We realised this was something pretty serious. We knew the air base had a credible threat of a terrorist attack before last night. So as soon as I saw them I was worried.
“I mean, you don’t see masked men running around at half one in the morning in the countryside near a secure air base and not have concerns.”
One of the white vans was labelled “FUEL 2YOU” in red lettering, with a phone number.
However, the number appeared to be one digit short and was not recognised when called by Telegraph reporters. The company name does not return any Google search results, and cannot be found on Companies House.
Whatever they were up to, they appear to have been well-organized, and caught only by happenstance.
More here: Arrests As Explosives Plot Uncovered Near Airbase Tied to U.S. Iran Operation.
DEAR BRITAIN: STOP ELECTING PEOPLE WHO HATE YOU.
https://t.co/cwQ0ueXWR8 And it's about to get worse, much worse. If this woman gets her way, millions more illegal migrants will be making their way into the UK, and YOU get to pay for it. For most of those coming in, they will also be on welfare for the better part of their…
— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) September 28, 2026
AND THERE ARE MORE OF THEM THAN YOU MIGHT BE AWARE OF: Don’t Forget the Christians Xi Is Persecuting in China.
OVERTON WINDOW, SHIFTING LEFT: Socialism’s Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time. “Over the longer term, Americans have become less positive about most of the market-oriented concepts Gallup tracks. Since 2010, positive views of big business have fallen by 14 percentage points, free enterprise by nine points and capitalism by six points. Small business is the exception, with views of it unchanged. Meanwhile, positive impressions of socialism have risen by seven points.”
PRETTY MUCH, YEAH:
In New York and California, they have made it illegal for officials to ask for or for you to show your voter ID!
They made election fraud mandatory. https://t.co/FrzVz3fU6b
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Virulent Antisemitism Could Be the Midterm Wild Card. “The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members who are ascendant in the Democratic Party are, for the most part, unhinged antisemites. I added the qualifier ‘for the most part’ there just in case some leftist troll managed to find one who isn’t. I don’t think that will happen though. Zohran Mamdani, Abdul El-Sayed, Rashida Tlaib, and DSA Psycho Queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all prefer that Israel be destroyed and Islamic terrorists hold complete sway in the Middle East. That’s what ‘Free Palestine’ is all about.”
THAT’S NOTHING; THE UK KEEPS CONSIDERING BANNING POINTY KITCHEN KNIVES:
Notable that this proposal was too stupid to be endorsed by Everytown or Brady pic.twitter.com/3HBUQrAvRQ
— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) September 27, 2026
NEWS YOUR KIDS OR GRANDKIDS COULD USE: For Gen Z workers wary of college debt, Walmart offers a road to six figures without a degree. “Walmart is betting that, for Gen Z, the road to a six-figure salary may run through its stores—not a college campus. The massive retailer is building paid, debt-free pathways that train frontline associates and place them in higher-paid jobs as truck drivers, skilled technicians, and licensed opticians. The program also addresses a labor shortage in those fields, by matching the training directly to positions it needs to fill.”
STARSHIP FLIGHT 14 LIVE FEED HERE.
Once again, an X embed refuses to work, so you’ll just have to click the link.
IT JUST WON’T DIE: DEI Is Still Here? Common Sense vs. DEI.
BUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP: Trump Cancels $810M for Illegal Immigrants, Race-Based Programs.
President Trump invoked a rare and legally contested power Friday to cancel $810 million in congressionally approved spending, targeting programs for illegal immigrants and a slate of federal initiatives explicitly organized around race and DEI.
The request hits 11 funding pools at seven departments and agencies. It also landed with just five days left in the fiscal year. That’s the point of the disputed “pocket rescission” maneuver: the money runs out before Congress gets its normal 45 days to consider the cuts.
The biggest piece is $567 million at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for services to refugees, asylees, unaccompanied minors, and other non-citizens.
The White House called them “pro-illegal immigration programs” and said the money is no longer needed because illegal border crossings have fallen sharply.
But immigration spending was only part of the package.
Several of the rescissions hit programs explicitly organized around race or ethnicity.
Well, good.
IT IS A BAD JOKE:
I wish it was a bad joke. https://t.co/SUqhJJyvsH
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 27, 2026
It just also happens to be real.
ROBERT SPENCER: The Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump Criminalizes Not Being a Leftist. “Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), an otherwise completely obscure far-left backbencher, has just made a bid not to slide into total oblivion once he finally skulks out of the Capitol for the last time. He has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and while many other quixotic leftists have done that, Cohen has distinguished himself in filing no less than 26 articles of impeachment against Trump, which has got to be a record.”
September 26, 2026
VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:
The face you make after you voted for socialism because gas was expensive. pic.twitter.com/HEFsbtdZWu
— Resist CBDC 🏁 (@Resist_CBDC) September 26, 2026
THAT’S IN LINE WITH PREWAR SHIPPING:
Daily reminder that the Strait of Hormuz is open and we are winning https://t.co/XuxEQECAnW
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 26, 2026
SPACE: With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time.
PRIMA, which has a cost cap of $1.2 billion excluding launch costs, will not be as big and complex as Roman, so it’s natural to assume a shorter development cycle. NASA wants to launch PRIMA seven years from now, in 2033. The telescope will observe the Universe in faint, far-infrared light in a range of wavelengths between 24 and 235 micrometers, requiring its primary optics to be cooled to 4.5 Kelvin, or minus 451° Fahrenheit.
This would usually require a brand-new build of a sophisticated cryocooler. PRIMA will instead use a spare leftover from the development of the James Webb Space Telescope, modified to use helium-3 instead of helium-4 as the cooling fluid. The focal planes of PRIMA’s kinetic inductance detectors will be chilled even lower to 100 milliKelvin, putting the mission’s optics in contention for the coldest ever sent into space.
Nifty.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Flock’s Optional Gunshot Detection Feature Has Fourth Amendment Implications for Gun Owners. “Flock is just one of many suppliers in the global gunshot detection market, which has an estimated total value of $1.5 billion. But the company’s marketing material raises concerns about the technology’s capabilities, which go beyond simply detecting gunfire. In Flock’s own words, a confirmed gunshot’“can surface the vehicles seen entering or leaving the area around the time of the sound, using nearby Flock license plate reader cameras.’ That statement deserves scrutiny, since it describes a mechanism for turning suspected gunfire into a list of nearby vehicles.”