Author Archive: Stephen Green

March 24, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ:

Posted at 1:59 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

FAIL, BRITANNIA: The Shocking State Of Britain’s Navy In 2026. “Successive governments have seen fit to think that only six destroyers are adequate, which is clearly deranged and incredibly irresponsible. So, out of six vessels, how many are operational in March 2026? A grand total of two. HMS Dragon, a vessel recently in the news that was supposed to be sent to Cyprus to protect British interests there, and HMS Duncan. The other four are all laid up for one reason or another. The class leader, HMS Daring, is preparing to return to service after an absence of eight years under refit. Given that it generally takes three to five years for a complete stem-to-stern overhaul and refueling for an American aircraft carrier, eight years for a destroyer seems beyond excessive.”

Much more at the link, all of it bad.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

ANOTHER REGRETTABLE EDUCATION FAD: It’s flashy! It’s fun! It’s a waste of students’ time and attention!

“I ain’t saying you treated me unkind,” sang Bob Dylan. “You just kinda wasted my precious time.”

From X:

Figen posts a video of a teacher who brought a PlayStation to class to use Assassin’s Creed to teach about the Industrial Revolution.

This is a distraction and a waste of time, responds Tom Bennett. It gets students to expect bells and whistles.

SoL in the Wild agrees it’s “100% terrible.” He blames constant messages to teachers to make lessons fun, fun, fun. Learning is supposed to “feel relevant to students’ lives, be fun, and revolve around engaging, activity-based experiences,” he writes. But, dressing something as a game “distracts from the content and decreases the likelihood that students actually learn the concept you’re trying to teach.”

I don’t recall any of my best teachers being particularly fun. Just demanding.

Posted at 1:45 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

SERIOUSLY, DON’T MISS IT:

Translation: “Don’t miss this editorial that the Washington Post dedicates to Pablo Iglesias and his comrades on their tourism-committed trip to the miseries that torment Cuba.”

Posted at 1:31 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

A DAY IS A LONG TIME:

How many thousands of Americans are learning that the ICE they see on the news is not the ICE they see with their own lyin’ eyes?

Posted at 12:58 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

BIDEN-ERA HANGOVER: Why is ATF Still Leaving Its Options Open for Prosecuting Owners of Braced Pistols? “A March 16 government filing in the ongoing case of Texas v. ATF has now renewed concerns that the agency reserves the right to continue bringing felony prosecutions under the NFA for possession of unregistered braced pistols. The passage in question is meant to rebut the plaintiffs’ claims that there are still live issues in the case that deserve a final judgment on the merits, rather than dismissal on mootness.”

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

PANIC BY DESIGN:

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

ELON NEVER THINKS SMALL:

TSMC made $122 billion in revenue last year. It controls 70% of the global foundry market. It took nearly four decades, over $100 billion in cumulative capex, and the concentrated talent of an entire island to build that position.

Elon just announced he’s spending $25 billion to build a competing fab from scratch, in Austin, targeting 2nm, with zero semiconductor manufacturing experience.

Here’s why dismissing it might be the wrong call.

Read the whole thing.

If Terafab is anything like Musk’s other projects, it will arrive late — but it will arrive.

Posted at 11:56 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Official decries ‘chilling’ targeting of ambulances at London synagogue: ‘Beyond time for authorities to wake up.’

A local official says that the arson attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish organization and parked at a synagogue in Golders Green, is “utterly shocking, terrifying,” and says that authorities are not taking enough action against growing antisemitism.

“The targeting of life-saving vehicles stationed the the car park of a synagogue is particularly chilling and will send shockwaves through our community at a time of already heightened fears over antisemitism in the UK,” local Golders Green councillor Dean Cohen tells the Jewish News.

“It’s beyond time for the authorities to wake and and do more to tackle this hate running riot,” he says.

What, and upset the government’s most reliable constituents?

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

THE LATEST FROM DATA REPUBLICAN:

More:

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn’t new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.

But what’s not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as “a global anti-authoritarian movement,” connecting U.S. officials with “colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly.”

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, “international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces,” and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.

At what point does this become treason?

Much more to come, so bookmark her post.

Posted at 11:25 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

IRAN IS NO LONGER THE STRONG HORSE:

Posted at 10:54 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

TO BE FAIR, IT’S DIFFICULT TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHEN DUCKWORTH IS LYING OR JUST STUPID:

And to answer Lee’s question, they have to lie about the bill because the only people it would disenfranchise are people who aren’t supposed to have the franchise.

That is, assuming they’re actual people, and not just excuses to send out fraudulent ballots for Dem machines to harvest.

Posted at 10:23 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

INCENTIVES, HOW DO THEY WORK?

Reagan’s old adage needs updating for today’s Democrats: “If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, tax it some more. If it stops moving, levy a death tax.”

Posted at 9:52 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

SPACE: A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it.

The 21-year-old spacecraft is falling out of orbit, and NASA officials believe it’s worth saving—for the right price. Swift is not a flagship astronomy mission like Hubble or Webb, so there’s no talk of sending astronauts or spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a rescue expedition. Hubble was upgraded by five space shuttle missions, and billionaire and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman—now NASA’s administrator—proposed a privately funded mission to service Hubble in 2022, but the agency rejected the idea.

Swift may be a more suitable target for a first-of-a-kind commercial rescue mission. It has cost roughly $500 million (adjusted for inflation) to build, launch, and operate, but it is significantly less expensive than Hubble, so the consequences of a botched rescue would be far less severe. Last September, NASA awarded a company named Katalyst Space Technologies a $30 million contract to rapidly build and launch a commercial satellite to stabilize Swift’s orbit and extend its mission.

The Swift observatory is flying in low-Earth orbit, where the outermost layers of the atmosphere still exert some aerodynamic influence on satellites. The spacecraft launched in November 2004 on a mission to detect gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the known Universe. Despite its age, astrophysicists still rely on Swift’s multi-wavelength instruments to identify and locate gamma-ray bursts for follow-up observations by other observatories.

If they can pull this off, a $30 million launch to protect a $500 million investment seems like a no-brainer.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

DOES ANYONE STILL LISTEN TO MCCHRYSTAL?

Posted at 9:21 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE at the Airports Is One of Trump’s More Brilliant Moves. “This should play out like another instance of Trump playing 4-D chess while the Democrats are just learning checkers. Despite all of the lying about the president by the Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media, the Trump 47 administration doesn’t let any of the false narratives get legs. This is because they are proactively doing things that are good for the country while the Democrats can only keep reassuring people that they hate President Trump. That’s the only policy they have now.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

WINNING: Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky, Indiana plants.

The new investments include $800 million at a plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, to increase production capacity of the automaker’s Camry sedan and RAV4 crossover. The remaining $200 million is to increase capacity for the Toyota Grand Highlander SUV at a plant in Princeton, Indiana.

“Toyota’s investment in the U.S. is for the long-term, tied to our philosophy of building where we sell and buying where we build,” Toyota Motor North America Chief Operating Officer Mark Templin said in a statement.

Toyota in November confirmed plans to invest up to $10 billion in its U.S. plants through 2030. That came roughly a month after President Donald Trump said during a speech that such an investment would come from the Japanese automaker.

It certainly did.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026

NEXT!

Posted at 8:19 am by Stephen Green on Mar 24th, 2026
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