NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is just like you and I!
As American as baseball and apple pie. https://t.co/bGrHSgxWua
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 23, 2026
Remember over the next few years, Los Angeles, that Pratt is the mayor you could have had.
MAKE OF THIS WHAT YOU WILL: Mark Kelly Says US military ‘doesn’t need more testosterone.’ “The retired Navy captain rebuked the secretary as ‘a guy who runs around on the stage, yelling about killing people and maximum lethality and testosterone’ during an appearance on MS NOW’s ‘Morning Joe’ show.”
Tell that to these guys: Airmen can’t get enough of new, warlike basic training, leaders say. “It used to be, [trainees] would ask you those very simple questions about, you know, when will I get to fly home and see my parents next,” she continued. “Now it’s the really tough questions … ‘Ma’am, if they’re targeting us so closely and we’re actually hunted out there when we go out and deploy, how do we work through that? What tools are we going to have for that?’”
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman showed a mysterious aircraft during the portion of his All-In Summit presentation on rebuilding NASA’s X-plane portfolio ✈️
• Isaacman showed a dark silhouette resembling a next-generation SR-71 Blackbird while discussing 'radical airframe and… pic.twitter.com/VNEDExk8K0
— Latest in space (@latestinspace) September 22, 2026
More:
• Isaacman showed a dark silhouette resembling a next-generation SR-71 Blackbird while discussing ‘radical airframe and engine designs’
• When asked if the image was the Blackbird, he responded: “You sure that’s the Blackbird?”
• NASA will soon be ‘flying once again as high and as fast as we have from decades past, and then even more’
• He criticized NASA being forced to spend its aeronautics budget subsidizing 40-year-old contractor engines instead of pushing technological boundaries
NASA’s job from the start was supposed to be the latter, not the former, of that last item.
CLEANUP ON AISLE 44: JD Vance’s Anti-Fraud Task Force to Boot More Than Half a Million Americans From Obamacare.
It is the largest purges of the insurance exchange since President Donald Trump’s administration began tackling fraud last year, the outlet noted.
The task force said eliminating the subsidies for the allegedly fraudulent enrollees would save an estimated $2.2 billion in taxpayer dollars.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, headed by administrator Mehmet Oz, was also expected to cut off hundreds of brokers and agents who get paid each time they sign up a new enrollee for government health insurance, The Journal reported.
Officials said 40 insurance agents and brokers were responsible for creating 50,000 fake accounts at a cost of $45 million — and CMS had already axed 66 agnets from its system.
Incentivize fraud, get more fraud — which seems to have been baked into ObamaCare from the start.
COMMUNITY NOTES FOR THE WIN:
This might be the most brutal and deserved community note I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/xVNm3fsl2n
— Eric Spracklen 🇺🇸 (@EricSpracklen) September 23, 2026
Trump can’t do it all himself, Sen. Thune.
ASSIMILATION, ITALIAN-STYLE: Meloni announces ban on burqa and niqab in Italian schools, cap on foreign students.
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
2023. Chuck Schumer appears on CNN to discuss a letter that he and Hakeem Jeffries wrote to Rupert Murdoch DEMANDING that Murdoch instruct Fox News hosts to stop spreading "falsehoods."
Schumer: We have a right and an obligation to tell Rupert Murdoch and Fox what to do. pic.twitter.com/Y3irYRs90z
— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 21, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s a Shame Trump Couldn’t Shut Down the UN for Good. “Leftists the world over — especially American Coastal Media Bubble™ types — insist that the UN is the linchpin of global community and understanding. These are the same people who believe that stuff from the government is ‘free,’ so they’re idiots and not to be taken seriously.”
HOW TO SUBVERT SUBVERSION WITH YURI BEZMENOV: Beware of CCP Unrestricted Warfare.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. If one party is at war with another, and the other party does not realize it is at war, the party who knows it’s at war almost always has the advantage and usually wins. Sun Tzu tried to warn us.
The CCP is conducting unrestricted warfare against America. Similar to the KGB’s ideological subversion campaigns that the real Yuri Bezmenov dissected, this doctrine encompasses many fronts that are unnoticeable to the untrained eye. No other country comes close to coordinating this much intentional damage across psychological, chemical, and technological methods.
Most Americans have no idea it is happening because the media and politicians from both parties are complicit.
Read the whole thing.
HOCHUL OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZES THE OBVIOUS ONLY AFTER DOING THE DAMAGE:
Kathy Hochul now admits closing Indian Point was a mistake. Our electric bills are up 50% on her watch.
Today, energy groups are warning that New York could face serious reliability problems as energy demand grows.
New Yorkers deserve reliable, affordable energy, not more… pic.twitter.com/sN8jCMGNUy
— Bruce Blakeman (@NassauExec) September 22, 2026
IN MANY CASES AIDED BY THE BIDEN CABAL: Where Did 4.5 Million Illegal Aliens, Who Arrived Under Joe Biden, End Up Staying in the U.S.? “The records show illegal immigrants from around the world dispersing far beyond communities along the southern border, reaching major cities, suburbs, and smaller communities with relatively low immigrant populations.”
WELL, WHY DIDN’T HE DO ANYTHING? Every teacher is saying, ‘How did he graduate? He didn’t do anything.’
South Carolina is trying to raise expectations. A new state law bans schools from setting “grade floors,” which set a minimum of 40 or 50 out of 100 instead of zero, even if no work is turned in. The idea is to persuade students who get a slow start not to give up on a passing grade.
But students have figured out they can pass with very little work, says Patrick Kelly, director of governmental affairs with the Palmetto State Teachers Association and a high school history teacher.
“At any high school graduation, I promise you, there will be a child who walks across the stage where every teacher in the room is going to go, ‘Wait, how did they graduate? They didn’t do anything,’” said Kelly.
Texas passed a similar law in 2009, writes Gilreath.
The South Carolina law also states that students must turn in missing assignments before they become eligible for credit-recovery programs, which let them make up classes they failed, often via online worksheets.
That could raise dropout rates says, Susan Stevens, assistant superintendent for school leadership in Greenville County, which set a grade floor more than a decade ago. The district will rethink how to support students at risk of failure.
If they haven’t successfully completed the work, how have they done anything but fail?
THE AMEN CHORUS OF NON-THINKERS IS THE REAL PROBLEM:
Kamala Harris, seemingly 4 vodka sodas deep, goes on a bizarre rant about how "attacks on DEI" are an "attack on maternal care": pic.twitter.com/Ygve8L6WWG
— Will Hild (@WillHild) September 22, 2026
ROBERT SPENCER: At the UN, Trump Gives Iran’s ‘Vile Regime’ a Stark Choice.
JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM:
BREAKING: DHS releases a bullet-point list of what they say are false claims about the shooting of a Venezuelan illegal alien in Austin, TX. They say claims that he was legal and had a valid work permit are false.
Per DHS:
“CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 22, 2026
Read the whole thing, if only to marvel at the BS the left is happy to spew.
It’s the kind of inflammatory rhetoric almost certain to get even more people wounded or killed.
NEWS I HOPE YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE: Lockdown or Active Shooter Drill? The Difference Matters.
HEH:
Most European security analysts can pick another job since they were totally wrong on how the Greenland crisis was solved. Gardening for example. https://t.co/3LtunL8Fk1
— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) September 22, 2026
YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: Fishing charter catches Air Force attack drone off Florida coast.
Daniel Arsenault, the charter boat captain, told Task & Purpose that the four customers aboard were military search-and-rescue helicopter pilots. Arsenault said their first instinct was to check for anyone who might need help.
The charter captain said they radioed the Coast Guard from about 20 miles southeast of Pensacola Pass but were told the service was already occupied with an active search. That’s when they decided to bring the drone back with them.
Of course, that wasn’t the first thing they did.
Arsenault said they cast around the waterlogged drone, which had attracted smaller fish seeking cover in the open water, and caught mahi-mahi and tripletail before hauling it aboard.
The roughly 10-foot-long drone was partially submerged and filled with water, Arsenault said. Six men aboard the charter held it alongside the boat until the water drained before wrestling it aboard.
Arsenault said the military members aboard opened accessible panels looking for a phone number or other identifying information but found no markings indicating which service owned it. Once they returned to shore, the local sheriff’s department took possession of it. Later that day, Arsenault said someone from the military called him and asked for “their drone back.”
Exit quote: “Arsenault ranked the drone among the five most unusual things he’s recovered from the Gulf.”
Now I really want to know the other four.
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE THE LIGHTBRINGER MEANT WELL:
Supercut of Obama's War on Whistleblowers:
James Risen: "I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama"
Brian Stelter: "The Obama also engaged in a war on whistleblowers. Prosecuting far more government… pic.twitter.com/uLRgpF3ZUs
— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) September 21, 2026
“Yes, Obama attacked so many journalists that his scope included a ‘James Rosen’ and a ‘James Risen.'”
NOW THAT’S AN EFFECTIVE SPEECH: Cuba Storms Out. Delcy Pouts. These Dictatorships Didn’t Care for Trump’s UN Speech.
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