WHAT SOME ANALYSTS EXPECT AFTER THE RUSSIAN “ELECTION” IS A STEALTH MOBILIZATION, FOLLOWED BY… NOBODY REALLY KNOWS:

As SACEUR noted, when the Russians start bringing in blood plasma—it is no longer just a military exercise.

— Theresa Fallon (@TheresaAFallon) September 19, 2026

GOV. STOMPY FOOT: California Gov. Newsom signs order demanding federal government regulate AI ‘before it’s too late. “”We’re not waiting to act – we’re going to speed up our work on substantial and responsible AI oversight before it’s too late. We’re going to do this thoughtfully but with urgent velocity; the stakes are too high to wait or delay action.”

Thoughtfully but with urgent velocity, eh?

Here’s how just one of Newsom’s urgent-velocity decisions played out:

Actually, it was insane in real time.

It was also intentional and evil. https://t.co/MR6zrV0q0S

— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) September 19, 2026

BEWARE THE DEEP SEVEN: A new arms race is unfolding on the ocean floor. “It comes amid growing concerns of so-called hybrid warfare, a broad term which can include cyberattacks, energy sabotage, disinformation, and economic pressure, with or without being accompanied by conventional military methods.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. They were, in fact, being dicks about it.

It is kind of hilarious that the most publicly communicative and responsive and available president ever is now being accused of being anti-free speech. Because they were dicks about it.

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 19, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Escape from NY: Two-thirds of state’s residents think about leaving — or know someone who is: poll.

GOOD ADVICE:

I’ve given Claude Opus various published papers (and my own unpublished ones) and asked it to review them. (Don’t panic—I’m not uploading confidential manuscripts.)

The reviews it produces are excellent. It finds statistical errors, internal contradictions, and conceptual…

— Paul Bloom (@paulbloomatyale) September 17, 2026

Exit quote: “As a journal editor, I’m not sure what to do with this. If I gave up on human reviewers and used GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus instead, my bosses would fire me, probably rightfully so. The only constructive thing I can recommend is that, before submitting something to a journal, researchers and scholars use this tremendously valuable resource. (Just don’t tell the models that it’s your paper, because they do suffer from sycophancy.)”

CDR SALAMANDER: Too Small U.S. Navy: Cliffs Notes Version. “We are tapped out sustaining operations against a 4th rate power.”

Related: Congress Must Save the Navy from Catastrophic Failure: Barreling toward a Hollow Navy.

“SHUT UP, NAZI,” THEY EXPLAINED:

Stand Up to Racism just posted a celebration video of Restore Britain being “chased out of Camden” for leafleting in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election.

Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns.

Read that again.

A legal party, standing a candidate on 8…

— British Patriot 🇬🇧 (@EnglandUK) September 19, 2026

More:

Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns.

Read that again.

A legal party, standing a candidate on 8 October, handing out leaflets. Then a mob. Then hospital. Then the attackers boast about it.

You can hate Restore Britain’s policies. Debate them. Vote against them. That is democracy.

What is not democracy is driving campaigners off the street and treating an injury as a win.

If the establishment keeps calling mass deportation voters “Nazis” this is what it produces. Not debate. A mob.

Ask yourself: would the same people cheer if the colours on the leaflets were reversed?

Mob rule is democracy in its purest form.

MORE ON THAT FIFTH CIRCUIT RULING FROM SHOOTING NEWS: Fifth Circuit Rules Federal Interstate Handgun Sales Ban is Unconstitutional.

THE MAP HASN’T CHANGED, BUT GREENLAND WILL EFFECTIVELY BECOME A US PROTECTORATE:

“Trump’s new deal with Greenland is exactly the same as the old one!”

Not true at all. Key new details:

Duration: The 1951 deal lasted only as long as NATO existed and Greenland remained part of NATO. Trump’s 2026 deal lasts indefinitely, even if NATO implodes or Greenland…

— Matt Morse (@MattMorseTV) September 18, 2026

Protrumptorate?

THE AVERAGE WOULD BE LOWER IF NOT FOR BLUE STATE PRICES:

Y’all were quiet at $5.02 a gallon and 9.1% inflation. Now gas is $4.06 and inflation is 3.4% and suddenly it’s a crisis. The numbers didn’t change sides. You did. pic.twitter.com/t6GrskAh0B

— Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 (@MikeBales) September 18, 2026

THEY CONFIRMED THIS AT JURASSIC PARK MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO: Scientists Discover T. Rex Blood Was As Hot As Human Blood, Suggesting They Were Fast-Running Predators.

MARK JUDGE: Jazz Fans Stunned by Cassandra Wilson’s MAGA Views.

Jazz great Cassandra Wilson passed away at 70 recently. Wilson was praised for her voice and talent. John Horhn, mayor of her hometown, Jackson, Mississippi, called her an “extraordinary native daughter.” He said Wilson carried “the sound, spirit and history of Mississippi” everywhere. “With a low and smoky voice,” The New York Times noted, “she brought suave romance to standards from the Great American Songbook, but she also embraced covers of artists including Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Young and the Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson. She wrote the words and music for original compositions on albums like Blue Light ’Til Dawn (1993) and New Moon Daughter (1995), the second of which received a Grammy for best jazz vocal performance and sold more than 400,000 copies.”

However, a sour note soon entered the chorus. It turns out that Cassandra Wilson had conservative views.

Lefties will tolerate anything but dissenting views.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, CONFORMITY IS DIVERSITY:

Princeton is the latest university to achieve academic nirvana: not a single faculty member contributes to a Republican candidate or campaign. Conversely, 98% of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups…https://t.co/FRLOSWGEHb

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) September 18, 2026

HMM: Army has enough drones for each unit, now it needs to train soldiers to use them. “It’s unclear just how many drones the Pentagon has sent directly to Army units, but as of today, the Drone Dominance Leaderboard shows that units have accepted 12,080 drones from Gauntlet 1 of the program. As Breaking Defense previously reported, 11 companies have received deals to provide a total of 24,320 small drones through the first gauntlet.”

Those aren’t even rookie numbers.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT BIOLOGICAL SEX WAS MEANINGLESS AND GENDER WAS JUST A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT:

Different islands. Same conditions.
The men built a camp and got down to the business of survival.
The women built a crisis.
Turns out Mother Nature doesn’t grade on a curve. https://t.co/PYKEI905A6

— Texas Darlin' 🎀 (@TexitDarling) September 18, 2026

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Sir, Monday Is Not ‘Naked Shopping Day.’ “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn why they need a ready-to-wear aisle at HomeGoods, how to do the perfect meet-cute at McDonald’s with just the one assault charge, and what’s up with that Golf Digest mugshot from Kansas.”

ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Taking a Waymo or a Cybercab to the Range a Good Idea? “The kneejerk response [to two people being arrested in California for having an AR in a Waymo] — ‘This is the surveillance industrial complex run amok’ — misses that these youths would have had the same result whether it was a human or an AI driving their taxi. Waving a gun around in the back seat of someone else’s car has always been a fast way to get the driver to end the trip.”

REMEMBER THE STAKES…:

Gas can come back down.

A communist government does not.

I’m voting Republican.

— Jack (@jackunheard) September 18, 2026

…If you think gas is expensive, try a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: That’s the Smell of Corruption at Karen Bass’s LA Homeless Authority. “Your correspondent of the weekly West Coast, Messed Coast™ knows it’s not very nice to take glee in the panic of others, but when it comes to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), ladies and gentlemen, may I please indulge in a little schadenfreude in my cup? Strong and black. No leche.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Democrat Anymore.

There are now just 10 Democrats of more than 250 in Congress who have signed on to a coalition that opposes rising socialism and communism. As part of their “Promise to America,” the 10 Democrats declare (among other things): “We are capitalist, not socialist,” “We want safety, not lawlessness,” “We are proud, not ashamed of America.” That not all Democrats signed on to that in and of itself is concerning.

The embrace of socialism — an extremist ideology — among mainstream Democrats both in office and in the electorate is the logical extension of Democrats’ policies. As I’ve previously written, the DSA isn’t necessarily inventing any new ideas or positions. They’re merely taking positions already embraced by much of the Democrat Party and just following them through to their logical conclusion.

Previously: It’s Official: The Democrat Party Is a Socialist Skinsuit.

I WANT TO BELIEVE:

🚨 The Pentagon’s latest #UAP drop just dropped.

Here’s your 46-second highlight reel.#PURSUE #UFO pic.twitter.com/PkJH6L4vhk

— Dr. Dan (@UAPDr) September 18, 2026

GOOD LORD: Whistleblower Describes Kids Crying as Becerra’s Machine Trafficked Them to Strangers.

I THOUGHT IT WAS BASED ON GREED AND ENVY: California’s Proposed ‘Billionaire Tax’ Is Based on Bad Research.

A survey conducted September 4–10 by the Public Policy Institute of California found 52 percent support for Proposition 40, which would impose a (supposedly) one-time 5 percent tax on the wealth of people with assets worth over $1 billion. Interestingly, 51 percent of respondents also support Proposition 41, which requires audits for new taxes and bars the way the wealth tax measure would allocate collected revenue, and 54 percent favor Proposition 42, which prohibits taxes on financial assets. Under California law, “if provisions of two or more measures approved at the same election conflict, those of the measure receiving the highest affirmative vote prevail.”

Those conflicting measures could save Californians from themselves, since the proposed wealth tax is based on bad assumptions and would do enormous damage to the state’s economy. Unfortunately, much self-inflicted harm is already locked in. In March, a Hoover Institution study found that wealthy individuals leaving the state in fear of Proposition 40’s passage had already removed “$536 billion, or nearly 30 percent of aggregate billionaire wealth, from the tax base.”

And the flawed research? It came from a couple of French-born Berkeley professors who seem to specialize in justifications for taxing the bejeezus out of stuff.

NOT MUCH CHANGED EXCEPT FOR THE TITLES:

Chesterton pointed out more than a century ago that the Duke of Norfolk would happily become the Administrator of Norfolk. Emir of Norfolk is also acceptable.

It’s all about keeping the pig snout in the trough.

— Mark Noonan (@Mark_E_Noonan) September 18, 2026

“Deputy Director-General for the Harmonization of Harmonizing Procedures” doesn’t have quite the romance of “Burgrave of Rosenfels” or whatever, but it will do.