THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTER CONTINUES APACE: Merz’s CDU suffers total wipeout in state election.

The chancellor’s centre-Right party won 4.9 per cent of the vote in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, final results confirmed on Monday.

The hard-Right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) took 38.2 per cent of the vote, while the hard-Left Die Linke beat the CDU in mayoral elections in Berlin. Mr Merz is scheduled to address the public on Monday afternoon.

The astonishingly poor result meant that, for the first time, the CDU failed to win enough votes to enter a state parliament in Germany.

Under the country’s voting system, parties that fall below the 5 per cent threshold are not assigned any seats in the next parliament.

Such a scenario was virtually unthinkable for the CDU – the German version of the Conservatives and a mainstay of coalition governments for decades – until Sunday night.

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Imagine you are the police, there is a political coup and your new boss are now the clans you used to fight.

An interesting situation which plays out in the German capital as well as in many Swedish cities. The background:

Middle eastern criminal clans have partnered with the… https://t.co/b4n9A73DM0

— Jo Bhakdi (@JOBhakdi) September 20, 2026

Middle eastern criminal clans have partnered with the socialist parties of Northern Europe to keep the borders open, accelerate citizenships to grow the foreign voter base and take over power.

The socialists agree to give up pork, feminism and LGBTQ and in return get more voters and street muscle. Both sides agree on rapid expatriation and wealth transfer from the natives to the newcomers as well as the elimination of Christian resistance.

The natives are holding still because they are scared to be called racist.

The only problem are the East Germans who for some reason don’t like it and vote AfD.

The new German left is anti-liberal (in the old-school sense) and backed up by “street muscle.”

Pretty sure we’ve seen this movie before.

“WE’LL SEE,” INDEED:

Though frankly with all this Russian war talk in Britain and now Estonia, I find it hard to imagine the Russians could mount another land campaign, or another war of any kind. They’re having a hard enough time with the one they have going.

We’ll see, anyway

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 21, 2026

I DON’T LIKE THIS GAME: Who Had ‘World War III Starting in Estonia’ on Their 2026 Bingo Card?

SAME AS IT EVER WAS: Brandon Johnson’s So-Called Progressive Equity Agenda Is a Potemkin Village That’s Hurting the Black Community.

The massive increase in school spending hasn’t translated into improved educational outcomes or choices. Spending over $32,000 per student — a 44 percent increase in per-pupil spending — has improved neither the schools themselves nor school choices for lower-income families, overwhelmingly Black. Johnson’s school board presided over the systematic lowering of academic standards and a return to social promotion, as accountability for poor academic performance was abandoned. The district has even stopped ranking schools by academic performance.

As the quality of schools has degraded, the Johnson-controlled school board has worked to strengthen the teacher union’s monopoly on education — successfully opposing both the extension of the state’s private-school scholarship program for low-income families and the state’s opting into a federal scholarship program. The latter forgoing hundreds of millions of dollars in education support for public- and private-school families alike.

Meanwhile, the teacher’s union has been exerting pressure on the district and state legislature to degrade and ultimately eliminate public school choice.

I’d just add that increases in per-pupil spending are largely illusory. Sure, the districts get more money, but it mostly goes to administration with very little reaching the pupils.

I MEAN, SHE ISN’T WRONG ABOUT THEFT BEING A QUALIFIER FOR BLUE-CITY PUBLIC OFFICE:

🚨 WTF!? Denver socialist candidate for mayor Shontel Lewis that her STEALING thousands in public food stamps QUALIFIES her to serve as mayor

"I actually think that experience is what actually QUALIFIES me…I did something silly."

You literally can't make this up — she says… pic.twitter.com/181yD5jkrU

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 20, 2026

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: 16 Months of Zero Border Releases and a Crackdown on Illegal Alien Voting.

THE LAST WORD ON GREENLAND: NATO Froze Over.

In one stroke, the agreement solves the U.S.’s two biggest Greenland problems: the deal stands even if Greenland ever becomes independent, and it reportedly gives U.S. veto power over Chinese or Russian involvement in the island’s affairs. To the Times, this is a dismal failure: “the agreement fell well short of Mr. Trump’s longstanding demand of total control over Greenland.”

He got the bases, the ban, the veto, and forever, and the Times marked him down for not also getting the gift shop or inheriting Greenland’s welfare state.

But in the very same story, the Times also reported that the announced terms include: a larger U.S. military presence and a build permit; a ban on non-NATO bases or military presence; full flyover rights; continued effect after a future Greenlandic independence; and a U.S. approval right over sensitive Russian or Chinese investments.

As I have explained before at painful length, Trump’s public demands to buy Greenland were a negotiating anchor. Under the announced deal, Denmark “wins” by keeping sovereignty while simultaneously giving the U.S. everything we need. Without having to “buy” anything. It was a masterstroke of negotiation.

Denmark still holds the deed to Greenland, but the US now holds the key — in perpetuity.

THE COLLAPSE OF THE EUROPEAN CENTER CONTINUES APACE:

The far-left Die Linke party has won the regional election in Berlin.

The leader of Linke in Berlin Elif Eralp celebrates hard tonight.

LINKE: 25.6% (13.4%)
CDU: 18.9% (18.9%)
AfD: 16.1% (+7.0)
Greens: 14.3% (-4.1)
SPD: 12.1% (-6.3)
BSW: 4.7% (+4.7) pic.twitter.com/uiK5A71dc8

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 20, 2026

The old center-left SPD and center-right CDU got barely more than 40% between them.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Talk About the 800 Pound AI Terminator Intel Ape in the Room.

LOS ANGELES: Dead Last In Housing Affordability.

Los Angeles spends a lot of taxpayer money on affordable housing, $399,228,000 in state funding and $1,919,897,000 in federal money for the 2024-25 fiscal year. Given all that spending, how does Los Angeles rank nationwide in housing affordability? Dead last.

Thanks to gobs of government spending, armies of regulators, and the tireless efforts of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles has managed to make itself the least affordable city in America! A fine demonstration of what the Democrat Party can do to a city if they just run it long enough.

If Angelenos want to choose another direction… tough. The mayoral election runoff is between a Cuban-trained closet socialist, or an India-born, out-of-the-closet socialist.

CHANGE:

This visual of how Ukraine evacuates casualties in the age of drones demonstrates the US Army Medical Branch's block obsolescence.

The Geneva convention is dead in the age of drones, which makes crewed medevac vehicles priority target death traps.

Air & ground evacuation… https://t.co/LY2cI3CIoS

— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) September 20, 2026

YOU DO NOT DESPISE THE MEDIA ENOUGH: The $6.7 Billion DOGE Headline Is True. It Also Leaves Out Half the Story. “The $6.7 billion figure is an estimated one-time cost of removing workers from the federal payroll. OPM Director Scott Kupor has said the Deferred Resignation Program is expected to save more than $20 billion every year because those salaries disappear after the employees leave.”

TO BE FAIR, THEY’RE USUALLY IN HYSTERICS ABOUT SOMETHING: Congressional Democrats in Hysterics About Saving the World From AI.

One way to react to these demands for public money, cartel-like behavior, and something approaching extortion is to haul everyone involved with these companies into police stations for questioning. But rather than stopping tech tycoons taking the law into their own hands, lawmakers have descended into hysteria, demanding that somebody “do something” to save the world. House Democrats are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to cancel recess and get to legislating. A bipartisan Senate group including Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is negotiating an AI safety bill that, among other things, would pre-empt the only existing state laws on AI safety.

Lawmakers have a poor track record on panic-induced lawmaking over the past quarter-century. After the September 11 attacks they compromised American liberty with the PATRIOT Act and struck out to start an endless war with Iraq, which had nothing to do with anything. After the financial collapse they used billions in taxpayer money to bail out banks while 10 million families lost their homes. In both cases, members of Congress had minimal understanding of the capabilities they were enabling, and listened to those who had better semblances of a plan, whether in the national security or banking establishment.

A smarter way to respond to the latest disaster is to avoid codifying the preferences of the very companies who are generating the panic.

The shocker is that this piece is in The American Prospect.

Re-upping this from Sunday:

Anthropic’s CEO wants America’s AI labs to embed “independent” groups like METR inside them to enforce “alignment.”

The money trail runs through a shadowy leftist NGO same small network.

This is another battle in our war against leftist censorship NGOs.🧵 pic.twitter.com/u3GvBH3CQW

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 20, 2026

BURIED LEDE: Gen3 Starlink will be SpaceX’s orbital data center before SpaceX builds its Starmind orbital data center.

Connectivity per sat will be more like 10Tb in both directions and there is a path to 100+Tb.

Each sat is 250kW and will have a SpaceX-designed Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 computer.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 20, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: Yes, They Really Want to Destroy Us: The Startling Details of the Islamic/Leftist Coalition. “Simpson exposes the interlocking structure of tax-exempt organizations that fuel what he describes forthrightly as a Communist movement — not socialist, certainly not democratic, but full-on Communist in its desire to destroy the United States as a free society and establish in its place a totalitarian government that will, due to modern technological advances, be able to control every aspect of individual lives more than the Soviet Union or East Germany or Democratic Kampuchea ever dreamed of doing.”

INTRODUCING THE PEOPLE ANTHROPIC WANTS IN CHARGE OF REGULATING AI ON YOUR BEHALF:

Anthropic’s CEO wants America’s AI labs to embed “independent” groups like METR inside them to enforce “alignment.”

The money trail runs through a shadowy leftist NGO same small network.

This is another battle in our war against leftist censorship NGOs.🧵 pic.twitter.com/u3GvBH3CQW

— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 20, 2026

CRICKETS:

Turkey raided gay bars and LGBTQ groups this week and jailed activists. (BBC, Reuters, & AP.) Same-sex relations aren’t even a crime there.

HRC, GLAAD, and Stonewall have not written a word. HRC spent the week posting Senate endorsements.

A week of mass arrests. Silence.

— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) September 20, 2026

If you needed more evidence that LGBTQ+ organizations are just Marxist fronts that care a lot more about the revolution than any actual LGBTQ+ person, here you go.

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: Avio seeks to cash in on Falcon 9 retreat.

Italian launch services provider Avio has seen an influx of customers who were unable to secure launch opportunities with SpaceX, European Spaceflight reports. “I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive because we have a whole bunch of customers coming to us and saying, ‘Oh my God, can you fly us?’” Avio CEO Giulio Ranzo said during the company’s September 10 earnings call. In recent months, SpaceX told multiple prospective customers that it was no longer accepting new orders for commercial Falcon 9 launches.

Europe’s answer to this, a subsidy? … According to Ranzo, some customers who had been turned away by SpaceX used the International Space Summit in Paris last week to lobby European institutions for financial support that would help offset the higher cost of launching with a European provider. Although prices for Avio’s Vega C rocket are not public, it likely costs about $60 million for a launch on the solid-fueled rocket. In our view, subsidizing launches on expendable launch technology is a poor plan. The continent should increase investment in developers of more competitively priced rockets.

Doing things the same way but with subsidies is what they do in Europe instead of innovate.

TRUMP STARTED A DEREGULATORY REVOLUTION, AND IT IS GLORIOUS:

Trump doesn’t get the credit he deserves. The media is absolute junk for not covering the real story and why America is so resilient.

Once this Iran bullshit is over prices of goods, inflation and energy cost will collapse.

— Agent (@CallThisAgent) September 20, 2026

SPACE: ‘We are on our way to groundbreaking science’: Stars turn neon-green in first test image from NASA’s Roman telescope. “The telescope, which launched to space on Aug. 30, is partway through a months-long commissioning process, with NASA scientists testing and tuning each of the spacecraft’s instruments as it undertakes a million-mile (1.6 million kilometers) journey to Lagrange point L2 — an orbital ‘parking spot’ where the competing gravity of Earth and the sun will hold Roman in place, alongside the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and other scientific spacecraft.”

Best part: “But in a final piece of good news, that 10-year mission now looks likely to double. According to NASA, a successful thruster burn (combined with bonus fuel loaded onto the spacecraft at launch) means that Roman may be looking at 22 years worth of power rather than 10.”

Bravo to the SpaceX launch team and Falcon Heavy.

I’VE READ THIS STORY BEFORE BUT IT NEVER GETS OLD:

Bill Gates once came to Giga Texas and told Elon that a long-range electric semi truck was impossible and it doesn't work

Elon’s response was:
“We literally have them. Drive one yourself. Pepsi is using them right now”

Bill Gates still kept insisting:
“No, it doesn’t work”

And…

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) September 20, 2026

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Elon’s response was: “We literally have them. Drive one yourself. Pepsi is using them right now.”

Bill Gates still kept insisting: “No, it doesn’t work.”

And this is the funniest part.

Elon asked him what exactly about the engineering made the Tesla Semi “impossible.”

Gates couldn’t really explain the engineering behind his claim.

Fast forward to today:

• Tesla Semi production has started
• 500-mile estimated range
• Einride plans to add 500 Semis
• 330+ Semis are already reserved around one California charging depot
• Tesla is rapidly expanding Megacharging infrastructure
• And Semi is now moving toward Europe

Elon literally built the entire truck and proved it in the real world

Imagine being that confidently wrong about the technology while still getting treated as a climate expert.

“Always listen to experts,” the wise man once said. “They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it!”

HMM: US nuclear submarines step in to defend crucial European sea cables from sabotage – amid warnings Putin is preparing to attack Europe.

DON’T WRITE MAJOR LEGISLATION IN A PANIC:

The United States has been leaping from one moral panic to the next: Black Lives Matter, MeToo, George Floyd, and now data centers plus the specter of AI-driven human extinction. In every case a genuine problem exists, but the threat is inflated out of all proportion and the…

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) September 20, 2026

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In every case a genuine problem exists, but the threat is inflated out of all proportion and the costs of overreaction are overlooked. The resulting hysteria blocks clear thinking and closes off rational discussion. Consequently, individuals never notice that self-appointed experts are distorting the facts for their own gain.

Companies with billions in AI stakes are perfectly capable of staging “rogue LLM” incidents to stampede politicians into regulation that keeps out competitors or simply reduces their own liability.

Previous panics have already damaged trust in institutions and among ourselves. They have also intensified the political polarization that now endangers American democracy. We should resist the current panic rather than feed it. The costs of getting this one wrong dwarf those of the last several.

PATRIOT Act, CARES Act, TARP, etc.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Minnesota anti-ICE relief fund shut down after 2/3 of applicants flagged over fraud. “Hennepin County, Minnesota, approved $2 million in funding to local businesses in response to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation, Operation Metro Surge. The county received over 300 applications and ended up distributing $500,000 to 82 applicants. However, over 200 applications were flagged for potential fraud, according to KARE 11.”

THREE DECADES, BUT OK:

You pathetic weasel! You were the biggest cheerleader for the Iraq War, where thousands of Americans died over 20 years, accomplishing very little.

Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth managed to destroy the Maduro regime in an evening and has the Iranian regime on its knees in 6 months… https://t.co/bLzPsdFYn5

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 19, 2026