DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: California gunman repeatedly released before deadly rampage, fiery shootout with deputies. “Prosecutors said they tried to keep Derek Spencer, 44, behind bars after he allegedly assaulted a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy. Instead, he posted bail, was arrested twice more and was released both times before allegedly killing 76-year-old Cheryl Macy, a beloved former Placer County District Attorney’s Office employee.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 24, 2026
SPOILER: UN WOMEN HAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS.
Just curious if @UN_Women has noticed or feels they should say anything about this. https://t.co/9tsqmgC80z
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) September 23, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: MSM Hacks Hope They Have One More Despair PsyOp in Them This Year. “The out and proud commies are ascendant in the Democratic Party, and a favorite tactic of old school Stalin devotees is to make their opponents despair so much that they provide little, if any resistance. They are obviously not going to succeed with getting the MAGA base to buy their mountains of horse manure, but moderate and independent voters are always vulnerable to manipulation via propaganda. So are a lot of elderly Republican voters.”
NOT EVEN A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
A Wisconsin judge was convicted of a felony– hiding a criminal accused of domestic assault from immigration enforcement. Bar license revoked? No, not even suspended, per 5-2 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling. The felonious judge's law license is "active" and in "good standing" pic.twitter.com/FLyyGwhKvE
— Eric W. (@EWess92) September 23, 2026
Maybe my history is a little glossy, but it seems like our public officials were better behaved when the people were still willing to apply the occasional tar and feathers.
I DON’T TRUST OPENAI, AND CHINA EVEN LESS: OpenAI exec is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about the US working with China on AI.
Sasha Baker said at Semafor’s Next 3 Billion event on Tuesday that she is “cautiously optimistic” about reports that Washington and Beijing are discussing an AI safety notification system, with a special focus on national security concerns.
It’s “a great place to start,” she said. “I see that as a starting place, not the ending place. But it’s substantive and real.”
She said the US and China have to find common ground because they are home to the world’s leading AI labs, but “every country in the world has a stake in what happens with advanced AI, and we want for those voices to also be represented in the conversation.”
Um… why?
SAD, BUT HANS IS PROBABLY CORRECT:
Remember, whenever you read anything in the Wall Street Journal about China, you should assume it came straight from the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda office. https://t.co/ogyGkpEoqu
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 23, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Let’s Talk About the REAL ’80s.
I come not to praise the ’80s, but to bury Ryan Reynolds’ stupid, ignorant, and frankly Canadian complaints about the most awesome decade ever.
Talking to Variety to promote Mayday — a watch-it-once-and-forget-it flick — Reynolds didn’t just diss the ’80s; he went off. And he was just so wrong.
“The ’80s was a brutal, brutal time for people,” Reynolds whined. “It was a f***ing mess and people forget that. It was a tremendous strife. Socio political tensions everywhere. We were still pretty fresh off a Cuban missile crisis, which was only 15-20 years before. It’s a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. Top Gun. Cocaine!’ Like, ‘No!’ It was really scary.”
Gentle reader, this effrontery will not stand.
So much more at the link.
MEMORY-HOLED:
Did people forget about the southern poverty law center scandal already where the dems paid the KKK and other extremists groups? https://t.co/KaYTxfivAH
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 24, 2026
NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP, BUT IT’S GOOD TO PLAN: Why We Must Prepare for the Chinese Communist Party’s Collapse.
The international consequences would be enormous.
China is not merely another authoritarian country. It possesses nuclear weapons, the world’s largest standing military by personnel, enormous security and intelligence organizations, advanced biological laboratories, vast state enterprises, major financial institutions and supply chains embedded throughout the world economy.
The collapse of central authority could therefore create simultaneous military, financial, humanitarian, political and proliferation crises.
Who controls the nuclear arsenal? Who commands the People’s Liberation Army? What becomes of the People’s Armed Police, the militia, the Ministry of State Security and the vast domestic surveillance apparatus? Who secures dangerous biological facilities? Who prevents provincial military commanders or security chiefs from becoming warlords? What happens to the renminbi, China’s banks, sovereign obligations, state enterprises, foreign reserves and trillions of dollars of domestic assets?
From there, things get dicey.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW:
Texas DPS has confirmed a technical issue caused an unknown number of voter registrations to not be processed.
Civix, a company you’ve probably never heard of, received a $36M contract for the Texas Election Administration Management system, happens to be a steady employer of… https://t.co/NgZG86ye07 pic.twitter.com/WuXxNItgQC
— Nick Plumb (@PlumbNick) September 23, 2026
September 23, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is Bill Burr Still on Team Luigi?
The Massachusetts native set woke snowflakes’ blue hair ablaze with his gags. He attacked DEI gone wild, mocking those who insist actors only take roles that reflect their actual life, background or physical state.
“‘Why is there an able-bodied person playing a quadriplegic?’” Burr said about Bryan Cranston’s starring role in “The Upside,” the tale of a quadriplegic in distress. “It’s called acting, you dumb f***.”
Glorious.
That Bill Burr may be gone for good. The comic actor hasn’t been as outrageous or funny in some time. He’s all over the map when it comes to the woke mind virus now, often sounding like a second-rate Hasan Piker.
In short, what the bleep happened to him?
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE (From Ed): Jim Treacher talks of “Tatiana, Bill, and Other Dummies:”
Bill Burr was once a terrific comedian. One of my favorites. One of the best in the business, if not the best. Back in the old days, he had this sort of blue-collar thing going on. Kind of a redheaded Archie Bunker.
Well, now all his hair is gone, and so is his common sense.
Here he is talking to Rolling Stone magazine about who’s responsible for the actions of Luigi Mangione.
https://twitter.com/RollingStone/status/2102660486726869214?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
“They all seem to function like the CIA, which is really sort of like indicative of… that you’re kind of doing something wrong. I mean, if you look at all of this stuff… Like, the response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, ‘Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we’re doing, if what we’re doing makes some crazy person do this.’ Their response was to take their faces off of the internet and get security. It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine? You know what I mean? It’s like, you’re not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.”
Alright, let’s unpack that.
He’s talking about UnitedHealthcare, the company’s reaction after one of their executives was murdered. Shot in the back by a coward. And how people like Bill Burr cheered the murderer.
“The people at that company made a crazy person do this.” That’s what he’s saying. Mangione isn’t responsible for his own actions. They did this to themselves.
He’s blaming the victim. He’s justifying murder. He’s telling those people to capitulate to the demands of a terrorist.
“Why do you need security? You’re not the president.” They just watched their colleague gunned down in the street! And heard the massive cheer among Bill’s fellow commies!
Bill Burr, man. He had one of the greatest comedic minds of his generation, and now it’s gone. His mind is gone. I don’t know how you come back from this.
Was he this way all along, but he wasn’t rich enough yet to say what he really thought? Did his dumb leftist wife do this to him? I don’t know.
Again, as disappointed as I am, I want this guy to tell me who he really is now. I’ve now been disabused of the notion that he’s a good person.
It’s not funny, but it’s true.
Exit question:
Someone jumped on stage and attempted to stab Dave Chappelle over his trans jokes. Should Dave Chappelle stop telling jokes? https://t.co/qficNk2wne
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 23, 2026
RED PLANET: Spectacular image from the surface of Mars – and scientists get a big surprise while searching for signs of ancient life. “The team noticed that Mars orbiters had detected signals of carbonate minerals, which on Earth often form in ocean and lake environments capable of supporting life.”
LIVING HISTORY: I Served Aboard 57,500-Ton Iowa-Class Battleship USS Wisconsin And She Is A Floating History Lesson For The US Navy In 2026. “It reminds us that the industrial aspect of maintenance, repair, and overhaul is colossal—especially for older ships. Back then, the U.S. Navy fleet was getting younger and younger amid the frantic buildup to an (almost) 600-ship Navy. Today the fleet is aging, compounding the challenges, time, and cost of upkeep. You can run a classic car forever—if you’re willing to pay the cost, and don’t run it too hard. And spare parts for the classics become scarce. Hence our need to rummage for parts at the nearby Alabama museum ship.”
VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT:
The primary elections are when you remove RINOs.
The general elections are when you prevent communism.
— Drew (@AllegedlyDrew) September 22, 2026
THE ART OF THE DEAL:
Ok, we now have the actual text of the Greenland deal (https://t.co/HwqZT6CGb2), so we can say how it compares to the existing 1951 arrangement and who, between Trump and Denmark, lied the most in their framing of it.
Long story short – which may surprise some – the Danes lied… https://t.co/DPM2iFkN4v
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 23, 2026
“It even survives a hypothetical future independence of Greenland: in that event, Denmark and Greenland must ensure that the independent Greenlandic state ‘affirmatively assume[s] all of the rights and obligations of the Kingdom of Denmark specified in this Agreement.'”
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pentagon taps Northrop Grumman, True Anomaly for recon satellites that can monitor other space systems. “Specifically, officials involved in the GHOST-R effort want to use commercially developed space vehicles, buses, and electro-optical payloads to deliver ‘high-resolution space-to-space imagery for characterizing resident space objects’ in geostationary orbit, according to a joint DIU-SSC press release.”
I’M NOT USUALLY MUCH FOR CONSPIRACY THEORIES, BUT…:
I'm very fascinated with why Western countries almost simultaneously decided to open their borders and commit civilisational suicide.
What was the moment that started it?
What happened in modern history where everyone lost their damn minds and decided "You know what? What we…
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) September 23, 2026
MAKE HIGH-TRUST GREAT AGAIN:
Libertarianism has disappeared because it is a sub-species of liberalism, and liberalism is disappearing across the West because people only feel the liberal impulse within the context of a high-trust society (which liberals have destroyed). https://t.co/ToYFtCjuJF
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) September 23, 2026
A good first step is to stop importing people from low-trust societies with no intention or desire of assimilating.
GO AWAY: California Wants to Write America’s AI Rules.
The order cites the need for more stringent regulation following the Hugging Face attack and industry leaders’ call to action. It also accelerates the implementation of Senate Bill 813 and Assembly Bill 1405, which create a state framework for certifying and registering independent AI auditors but do not require developers to submit to audits.
The announcement describes California’s AI framework as a “guidebook for the nation.” Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, sees it differently.
“It’s not a guidebook,” he tells Reason. “It’s a rule book.”
AI systems transcend state borders, and given California’s outsized role in the market, working around its laws is hardly an option; therefore, California law effectively becomes the national standard. This phenomenon is known as the “California effect,” and it has reared its ugly head in labor and environmental policy.
The last thing we need is a one-party kleptocracy that can’t even build a railroad writing regulations for the entire country on bleeding-edge tech.
NOPE, STILL NOT TIRED OF ALL THE WINNING:
We’re getting wins we didn’t even know we were getting
Fergie Chambers, a communist failson heir to the Cox Enterprises fortune, is under federal indictment and is being extradited from Spain
He was a big time funder of Antifa https://t.co/dIZ79nkPtR
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 23, 2026
HEIGHTENING THE CONTRADICTIONS INHERENT IN THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM: Hey, Xi — Good Luck Keeping AI on a Communist Leash. “Beijing is ‘pushing cheap, capable open-source models around the world’ and Xi wants AI ‘never so powerful that it slips beyond the control of the Communist Party.’ Which is like giving your teenage son a 1,000-horsepower Ferrari, but insisting that he keep his speed to 55 mph.”
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Oopsie! Democrat Convicted Felon Drops Bid. “This is a blow to Democrats, because Lomick actually received a few hundred more votes in the primary election than the two Republicans candidates, indicating the new district might possibly be competitive.”