WELL, GOOD: State Department clamps down on size of Iran’s UN delegation and ability to splurge on ‘shopping sprees.’

A State Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner on Monday that the “delegation is smaller than last year,” most likely due to restrictions placed on Pezeshkian’s media team reported by Iranian state outlets.

“In an unprecedented hostile move by the U.S. government, Trump has denied U.S. visas to certain members of the president’s high-level delegation, including members of his communications team,” reported Iranian state news agency IRNA this week.

Hostile? Well, we are at war.

HOW LONG BEFORE HE’S ACCUSED OF RACISM?

In 25 years, Todd Beamer's dad never got involved in a political campaign.

That's because for the past 25 years, no major candidate had ever campaigned with someone who said America deserved 9/11. Until now. https://t.co/soVkQjl9H6

— Jason Bedrick (@JasonBedrick) September 22, 2026

ICYMI: This Might Be Trump’s Most Magnificent Troll of All Time.

YES: America Must Be Able to Restore Its Space Power at War Speed.

The White House’s new National Security Science and Technology Strategy identifies space as one of only three priority areas, alongside undersea capabilities and artificial intelligence and autonomy, for U.S. “battlefield dominance and power projection.” It calls for clear U.S. technological superiority from very low Earth orbit through cislunar space, the area between Earth and the moon.

The administration also released an updated National Space Transportation Policy, replacing guidance issued in 2013. The Obama-era policy already called for responsive, resilient access to space and rapid restoration of capabilities during conflict. The Trump update goes further, explicitly linking rapid and resilient access to space to U.S. space superiority. It calls for space ranges to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 and directs the Pentagon to evaluate barriers to supporting high-priority national security launches within 48 hours of need, including from expeditionary locations.

Those goals matter because China is building capabilities both to exploit space and to deny it to the United States. The Pentagon assesses that Beijing is developing jammers, lasers, anti-satellite missiles, and on-orbit systems intended to restrict U.S. access to space during conflict. China also operates more than 500 satellites that contribute to a broader “sensor-shooter kill web” architecture used to locate forward-deployed U.S. and allied forces. Beijing is also rapidly scaling its ability to put new capabilities into orbit; targeting 140 launches in 2026, a 52 percent increase from 2025.

With China improving both its space and counterspace capabilities, U.S. space superiority cannot rest solely on having better satellites. Washington also needs the ability to rapidly replace or augment critical capabilities when satellites or supporting infrastructure are disrupted.

We haven’t had a White House this serious about national defense — or more forward-looking about it — since Reagan.

AS GLENN SAID THE OTHER DAY, BUCKLE UP:

This is something I expect to see before any attempt at using the Belarusian military offensively.

But with the usual level of corruption, backstabbing and opposition sympathies in that outfit, this could be just normal housekeeping. https://t.co/M4dG4sSjzX

— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) September 21, 2026

YOU GET ONE GUESS: Multiple Lindsay Clancy Jurors Broke the Rules, but Guess Who Might Be Investigated.

“PROFESSOR,” LOL:

You’ve had negative net migration for the first time in your entire life and I don’t even know how old you are.

You don’t vote because Trump and the GOP delivered on everything. You vote because the communists will make it all much worse. https://t.co/KCXcjo3evx

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) September 21, 2026

Don’t take the black pill. Vote.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): When I see stuff like this I assume it comes from CCP operatives or Democratic Party operatives, to the extent there’s a difference.

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL: Treasury yields are already blowing up the CBO’s long-term forecasts, and experts who previously downplayed U.S. debt fears are now starting to worry.

WE MAY NEVER KNOW HIS TRUE MOTIVE: Germany: Muslim migrant arrested for setting fire at entrance to synagogue, cops mum on motive.

ATTACK DOG WITH A SMILE:

Vance is so damn good at this. Look at how affable he is while hitting CNN, MS NOW, and Politico in the middle of the head with a ball-peen hammer.

"Special access" is the exact right way to frame this…

Because that's what it is…

And we all remember these outlets pushing…

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) September 21, 2026

Related:

Late night hosts celebrating Trump being banned from social media. pic.twitter.com/7igDcNzvXn

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 20, 2026

ICYMI: Who Had ‘World War III Starting in Estonia’ on Their 2026 Bingo Card?

PERSPECTIVE:

To put the banality of evil into perspective, this reply is in the comments to the an article about an old lady in Canada changing her mind about getting MAIDed, the government killing her anyway, and to make it extra horrible, they botched it so she died terrified and covered in… https://t.co/dlbFa0rRpC

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) September 21, 2026

ERASING WOMEN: Chicago community college will train midwives to help ‘birthing individuals.’

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES ALWAYS HAS THE LAST LAUGH:

Like 800,000 people watch CNN, if you filter their coverage through an “independent” content review board, that number will be 250,000 by next summer

— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) September 21, 2026

UGH: ‘He Died in My Arms’ — Lindsay Clancy’s Ex-Husband Speaks.

VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT*:

The GOP is a clown show but if the Dems gain power they will simply end all immigration enforcement and the country will be over

They have said this explicitly, repeatedly, and consistently https://t.co/6Juv106OZj

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) September 21, 2026

*Because they do.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do COVID And AI Rhyme?

Think about that for a moment.

Some of the people leading the race are now asking government to help slow the race.

Business titans generally don’t beg Washington to regulate their industries. When they do, it is reasonable to ask why.

Perhaps these executives genuinely fear what they are creating. Given the extraordinary capabilities of AI, that possibility should not be dismissed.

But there is another possibility.

Regulation is expensive. Giant corporations can afford armies of lawyers, compliance officers, lobbyists, engineers, and safety researchers. Smaller competitors and startups often cannot. What begins as a regulatory guardrail can eventually become a competitive moat.

Investor Steve Eisman, famous for anticipating the 2008 housing collapse, recently made precisely this argument, suggesting that AI companies warning of catastrophe may benefit from regulations that protect dominant firms from competitors.

That doesn’t prove motive, but it certainly makes the question worth asking.

And the political cavalry was arriving at roughly the same time.

Read the whole thing.

BUT GOOD LUCK NEUTERING THE TRIAL LAWYER LOBBY:

Bessent: No Liability Shield for AI

Good call. If AI really is as dangerous as their paid activists claim, the solution is more liability.

As for the claim liability will strangle the industry, the fix is neuter the trial lawyer lobby, not give out free passes to break stuff… https://t.co/q87Yb0mFdc

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) September 21, 2026

FASCINATING: Something Very Strange Is Happening With Trump and AI Users — and It Just Might Swing the Midterms. “Americans who use artificial intelligence (AI) tools every day are the only AI-usage group to give President Donald Trump a net positive approval rating, a new Rainey Center poll has found.”

FLASHBACK: The Banality of Leninism. “Historians often act like Lenin’s tyranny was a bolt from the blue: Who would have expected a bunch of socialists to be so bloodthirsty? Admirers of Lenin, in contrast, often paint him as a great innovator – at least as a strategist. A dictatorship of the proletariat run by a vanguard party of bourgeois intellectuals? Only Lenin could have conceived it. When you read 19th-century Russian literature, however, “Leninist” memes clearly predate the birth of Lenin. Contrary to many historians, Lenin’s atrocities were foreseeable. And contrary to Lenin’s admirers, his strategy of atrocity was pure cliche.”

This piece is from 2012 but is as timely as ever.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Effective Altruism is evil. “These people are impossible to parody. I wish I could convey to you how absurd this is, but any straightforward description of it makes one sound insane.”

BOW TO THE MASTER: This Might Be Trump’s Most Magnificent Troll of All Time.

HMM: America Needs a New Urban Vision.

Cities historically grew and prospered because of their location by rivers, ports, or natural resources. They might also have been the capitals of great empires or religious centers, or boasted vital institutions like universities, museums, and industry clusters—legacies of great economic booms.

The age of modern media has seen the emergence of a new key element catalyzing growth in contemporary societies: a compelling urban vision. Urban visions formulate attractive paradigms of what a successful city looks like, focusing on four central ingredients: people, businesses, leaders, and capital.

American cities largely lack such a unifying idea today.

Interesting article, but I remain wary of people who have visions of how other people should live.

Why not try good governance and letting people figure it out for themselves?

THE NEW SPACE RACE:

BREAKING: The U.S. Space Force is backing Sedaro with up to $45 million to expand what could become a digital proving ground for orbital warfare.

Sedaro is a mission simulation software platform designed for National Security that can model satellites, sensors, communications… pic.twitter.com/s56UaE2oq7

— Outer Space Today (@outerspacetoday) September 19, 2026

More: “Sedaro is a mission simulation software platform designed for National Security that can model satellites, sensors, communications networks, and other military systems together. This will allow the Space Force to digitally rehearse entire missions, simulate hostile attacks, and expose weak points before putting hardware or personnel at risk.”

IN THE GRAND OLD TRADITION OF STALIN ORDERING TROTSKY MURDERED IN MEXICO: Russia Allegedly Went Shopping for a Hitman in America. The Price Was $40,000. “An indictment unsealed in Manhattan charges five people with working in a network tied to Russian intelligence services. Prosecutors say the network recruited people in America to surveil Russian dissidents and, in at least one case, tried to recruit someone to carry out a killing here. All five defendants remain at large.”