Author Archive: Stephen Green

July 24, 2026

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

…it’s less than the media despises you.

UPDATE: Link was bad before, sorry! Should work now.

Posted at 10:57 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

INCENTIVES MATTER: DHS issues $84B in fines to illegal immigrants under Trump administration.

Shortly after Trump’s return to office, the administration announced it would begin fining illegal immigrants subject to final removal orders $998 per day if they failed to voluntarily leave the United States or otherwise comply with their removal orders. Illegal immigrants are required to pay the fines before they are deported, and DHS has said it may seize assets from those who fail to pay.

The Trump administration has unveiled a series of measures designed to encourage illegal immigrants to leave the country, including DHS’ announcement that those who refuse to self-deport could face “significant financial penalty.”

DHS has argued the program costs significantly less than traditional deportation proceedings and is designed to encourage illegal immigrants to voluntarily leave the United States.

The press ripped Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting self-deportation.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

YES:

Posted at 10:26 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Ukraine Declares War on Wildberries (Really). “Residents of St. Petersburg woke up Friday to find their Wildberries on fire, following a series of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia’s largest online retailer. The Associated Press sold the attacks as ‘hurting small businesses and bringing the war home,’ but there’s more to it than that.”

Posted at 10:11 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

KASPAROV WAS AN EARLY SUFFERER OF TDS, AND SHOWS NO SIGN OF RECOVERY:

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

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: America’s AI Regulation Should Be Rooted in Free Enterprise Principles.

If you think super-advanced AI isn’t on the horizon—which is the forecast of five out of six AI technologists, according to one recent survey—then we can treat AI models and their corporate creators in a more “normal” fashion. These open and near-frontier models should be treated as engines of competition and diffusion. As tech analyst Ben Thompson argues, the economic panic over Chinese models like Kimi K3 mostly misreads market economics:

Right now there is a price umbrella that is downstream of the lack of compute; I highly doubt that Chinese models are cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, they just seem cheaper because Anthropic and OpenAI are so supply constrained that they are charging far more than they would if there were sufficient supply to meet the demand for intelligence.

Washington should think hard about how policy currently works against a proliferation of advanced American models—starting with the informal national-security review process that, as tech policy analyst Adam Thierer has explained, can hold up a model’s release with little public explanation or transparent process. That’s a dicey situation for a wealthy frontier AI company—and an impossible one for an open-model startup.

There are genuine security problems here. My AEI colleague Ryan Fedasiuk has usefully catalogued many of them, such as user data flowing to Chinese servers subject to Beijing’s National Intelligence Law and tampered model files in the supply chain. The right response is targeted rules on AI models used in government systems, sensitive data, and what major American platforms distribute. So an argument for safeguards, not suppression.

I’d add that rules and regulations written in the heat of a panic are even worse than those that aren’t — and the ones that aren’t rarely work as intended.

Posted at 8:38 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

JUST ANOTHER OBAMA MESS FOR SOMEBODY ELSE TO CLEAN UP:

“So many of our black contractors have NOT GOT THEIR MONEY! A lot of the black community do not know these people have not been paid!”

Posted at 8:22 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

QUIT MESSING WITH TEXAS: Austin: Soros DA = 74% Higher Homicide Rate. “The difference between having a real DA who prosecutes criminals, and a Soros-backed DA who doesn’t is stark. While most of America was seeing a drop in murder rates, Austin under Soros-backed DA Jose Garza has seen murder rates rise by 74% since 2019.”

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green on Jul 24th, 2026

July 23, 2026

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE VIA EMOJI:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026

THEY WON’T EVEN ACT IN THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST, MUCH LESS THE COUNTRY’S:

Posted at 4:37 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026

BUC-EE’S: Beloved gas station chain reveals managers can earn up to $275K without college degree. “The pay scale, which has circulated widely on social media, lists cashiers, warehouse workers, maintenance employees and grocery stockers starting at $20 an hour. Food service managers can earn between $150,000 and $200,000 annually, while general managers can make between $200,000 and $275,000.”

Posted at 3:51 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026

RESIST COLONIALISM:

Posted at 3:35 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026

EVERGREEN HEADLINES: The Democrats Have a Communist Problem. “The milquetoast Democrats are no match for Piker and Mamdani. They don’t have any real men in the party anymore who can take them on – they’re all too frightened of the voters. They can’t Gavin Newsom their way out of this one. We’d all better hope it’s Kamala Harris and not AOC in 2028.”

Posted at 2:49 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS…:

Posted at 2:34 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 23rd, 2026
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