IF YOU SQUINT, YOU CAN JUST MAKE IT OUT:
See if you can spot the difference. pic.twitter.com/OlZI93l6em
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) September 16, 2026
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 17, 2026
ATHENA THORNE: I’m So Glad This Nightmarish Legal Fight Is Playing Out During an Election Season. “The child in question is Sophie Kutzko, who was 15 in 2024, when unnamed adults at her school coached her to file a complaint against her parents, giving state child ‘protective’ services a pretext to seize her.”
DON’T YOU LOVE A HAPPY ENDING? Orland Park, IL Gas Station Stickup Man Learns the Victim Gets a Vote, Too. “Police say the suspect approached the person at the pump to rob him. The CCL holder drew and shot the armed attacker. The would-be stickup artist left in an ambulance. The customer stayed and spend the rest of the morning as a witness rather than a victim.”
FASTER, PLEASE:
ActBlue is a criminal conspiracy to commit election fundraising fraud. Indict and arrest them immediately so people see what the Dems are doing before our elections. https://t.co/swr0dsgdiB
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) September 17, 2026
OUR CALIFORNICATION CONTINUES APACE: Amendment 87: How the Broncos play into Colorado’s tax fight.
Like any CEO, a head coach doesn’t have infinite money. He’s stuck with a salary cap, competing against 31 other teams for the same shrinking pool of ridiculously overpaid talent.
Enter Amendment 87, which offers most of us a token tax cut while nearly doubling the rate on those evil, hated rich people we call Denver Broncos. If it passes this fall, every Bronco currently taxed at Colorado’s flat 4.4% starts paying 8.4%.
Football players take a lot of hits to the head, but their accountants don’t — and unlike our legislators, accountants (and even concussed football players) can do arithmetic. All else equal, a player has to earn 8.4% more to play in Denver than to play somewhere with no state income tax at all.
Any player who plays for the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Las Vegas Raiders, Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans or the Seattle Seahawks gets an instant 8.4% raise compared to playing for Denver under Amendment 87.
Run Peyton Manning’s numbers again: at $20 million a year, that 8.4% is $1.68 million a year — $8.4 million over a five-year deal. Double those figures to adjust for inflation, and you’re talking real money even by NFL standards.
Sure, plenty of things factor into where a star chemist, programmer, performer or quarterback decides to live and work. But an 8.4% pay cut isn’t a rounding error. It’s the kind of number that ends up circled on a napkin in some agent’s office come free agency.
Not that it matters, but it’s not just football teams competing for star talent. Every Colorado business is as well.
Few things are as mobile as talent.
INDOCTRINATION MASQUERADING AS EDUCATION:
cult is overused but exactly right in these sorts of contexts. as we know from a trillion institutional meltdowns centered on these trainings, if they weren't intentionally built to give power to power/control to certain Cluster B types, they may as well have been https://t.co/9dvqp7JpNe
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 17, 2026
AS FORETOLD BY THE PROPHETS: Harry and Meghan’s Two-Day British School Year Ends in a Predictable Security Soap Opera.
THAT WOULD BE NICE: Soros-Backed DA Larry Krasner Going Down? “While I would be delighted to see pro-crime Krasner see hard time in Club Fed, I would be even more interested in possible revelations from a robust discovery process exposing just what communications pass between the numerous tentacles of various Soros-backed organizations and Soros-backed DAs.”
AND MERZ KNOWS JUST THE MAN TO DECIDE WHAT INFORMATION IS CORRECT AND PERMISSIBLE:
The chancellor of Germany says free speech is just a kooky American idea that he doesn't share:
“Please don’t come to me with free speech… That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still… https://t.co/xETjMt6RMB
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) September 15, 2026
Conveniently enough, that man just happens to be Friedrich Merz.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Say Goodbye to Hollywood… If It Even Exists Anymore.
DEMOCRACY!
In a stunning political move, the chief judge of the Minneapolis federal bench disclosed the behind the scenes collaboration between all judges to thwart legal proceedings related to immigration cases this year.
Patrick Schiltz, who admitted his longtime involvement in a… https://t.co/DbkrOP9nGY
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) September 17, 2026
More:
Patrick Schiltz, who admitted his longtime involvement in a pro-migrant nonprofit, reveals how judges remained on their cell phones nonstop to halt deportation proceedings. And rather than evaluate each case individually — as is required — the judges developed pro forma orders (as I predicted) to immediately stop cases in their tracks.
This is something:
Schiltz: “Some judges built templates of legal orders so they could respond quickly to some of the detention issues that were arising again and again.”
Emphasis added.
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: Dems Get Crazier, NYT Coverage Stays the Same.
Most normal Americans would agree: This year’s Democratic candidates are noticeably stranger and more radical than they’ve been in past elections. The New York Times, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have noticed.
For whatever reason—blind partisanship, most likely—the Times’s coverage of these uniquely nutty and terrorist-adjacent cranks has been as flattering and credulous as ever. Scandals are downplayed or ignored, sketchy associations shrugged off. The past comments most Americans would consider genuinely insane are dismissed as old news. Business as usual.
No, her moment hasn’t come. Nixon is an anti-Israel socialist running in Florida. The Times fawned over her “high-volume tactics” and suggested she “doesn’t fit the mold” of other socialist candidates. As evidence, the paper cited her ownership of Cafe Resistance, a left-wing bookstore and coffee shop that glorifies convicted cop-killers. The Times didn’t mention that last part. Nor did it scrutinize her refusal to pay her fair share in taxes.
Much more at the link.
Also, I apologize for the mistake in the Insta-headline. There’s nobody to the left of the NYT.
PERSONNEL IS POLICY:
NEW from me:
Zohran Mamdani's newest senior adviser edits a magazine for "thinking gay communism," called for the "abolition of the police," praised a 1970s Marxist bank robber, called Gandhi "a racist anti-Black misogynist," signed a letter defending Hamas's "right to resist"…
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) September 16, 2026
BEEGE: Said the Spider to the Fly: EU Issues Invitation to Canada to Be Its First ‘Associate.’
For a while there, I thought petite Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was just flexing his minor muscles for local consumption and the elections in Quebec where his party is currently polling poorly.
But with this latest move, I do have to wonder if this globalist agenda wasn’t his aim all along – glomming onto any excuse to move the Syrupeans’ relatively minuscule economy out from under the protective, and what’s been nurturing umbrella of the United States into the arms of the European Borg Collective.
Spoiler: That was his agenda all along.
ERIC S. RAYMOND:
This is the case against AI doom. Pass it on
First we recaptulate standard x-risk argument: we build AI substantially smarter than humans → it becomes an autonomous optimizing agent → its goals are misaligned → instrumental convergence makes it seek power and resist…
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 17, 2026
There’s really no way to properly excerpt from this one, so read the whole thing, as they say.
RACISM IS COOL NOW BECAUSE SHUT UP, WHITEY: Nearly 40 universities maintain neo-segregated housing despite HUD demand to end practice.
Research by The College Fix found 39 universities this fall semester operate “affinity housing” or “living-learning communities” geared toward students of a particular race or ethnicity.
Proponents argue such arrangements improve retention rates, foster peer mentorship, and support academic integration for historically underrepresented groups. However, these offerings have been deemed a euphemism for discrimination by the Trump administration. Another term used to describe such arrangements is “neo-segregation.”
Fix research identified 39 universities with one or more such residential programs, but because many universities operate multiple communities, the total number of individual segregated housing programs is substantially higher, coming in at 74.
Of the 39 universities, at least 28 offer housing geared toward black or African students, 17 toward Hispanic or Latino students, 10 toward Native American or Indigenous students, and nine toward Asian students. Several universities offer multiple affinity housing programs.
The dorms are separate but equal, to coin a phrase.
IT’S THE SAME OLD SONG:
This is 100% accurate.
The left has completely moved on from climate change, net-zero, electric car mandates, etc. The climate panic faded and their ideas were all wrong, so for 2028 the new existential threat that needs regulating is AI. https://t.co/s8GuiVOrXv
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 16, 2026
Well, cool — I guess we saved the climate.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Karen Bass Will Probably Get Her Shot at Finishing Off Los Angeles. “What’s happened in the eight years since I got out is heartbreaking. I haven’t gone back for a while for a couple of reasons. One is that a good many of the friends I had there have also left California. The other is that some of the friends who are still there have repeatedly told me that the Los Angeles I loved no longer exists at all and that I’d be saddened by what I saw. “
THEY’RE GETTING BETTER AT THE HARDWARE SIDE: China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system. “China said it can now predict weather 10 days in advance at a cutting-edge resolution of 5km (3.1 miles), finer than most major systems in routine use around the world.”
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED:
Six years ago Bernie told us that we had six years left because of climate change.
That grift is over and now he’s onto the robots.
Mock this miserable goon into oblivion. pic.twitter.com/rKdd7xruaD
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 16, 2026
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: They Want to Save Us From AI. Who Saves Us From Them?
America’s most important edge is one that the CCP can’t afford to let China replicate: our free-wheeling, laissez-faire tech culture. From the start of his extended term as Communist Party boss, Xi began reversing China’s decades-old free-market reforms. Under Xi, there’s less of Deng Xiaoping’s “it is glorious to grow rich” mantra and more Party control over pretty much everything.
But that does put China in a bind. AI creates new domestic and international threats to the CCP, but staying behind the US increases the foreign threat, while further advances risk increasing the domestic threat.
That’s one reason, as Eric S. Raymond recently put it, China “officially stated that they consider the calls for an AI pause to be a ‘power play’ and will not be participating in any US-led agreements to slow down development.” The Beijing Times reported on Tuesday that China’s state-owned Global Times accused Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei of proposing a “quiet AI Cold War” to “widen America’s lead” through tech barriers and regulatory schemes.
Any worldwide pause would freeze China’s disadvantages into place.
Whatever the domestic threat might be to CCP control, Beijing can’t afford to slow — that is to tame — Chinese AI development. Getting the Americans to tame themselves, however… in Xi’s eyes, that would be ideal.
But who in the US would ever encourage us to do such a thing?
Enter, stage left: Barack Hussein Obama.
Lots to chew on in this one.
FRICKEN LASER BEAMS, FOR STARTERS: US Space Force Confirms It Has Weapons in Orbit. Here’s What They Could Include.
Space Force doctrine defines space control as offensive and defensive operations conducted to gain and maintain freedom of action in space.
Offensive counter space operations can impair or destroy an adversary’s space capabilities, while defensive operations protect U.S. and allied systems.
That broad mission can involve very different weapons. Kinetic systems destroy or physically damage a target.
Non-kinetic options include electronic warfare that jams communications, cyber operations against satellites or ground stations, and directed energy that can disrupt or damage sensors.
An orbiting spacecraft could also approach another satellite for inspection, servicing or attack. The same maneuvering and robotic technologies can perform peaceful work or hostile acts, making a system’s purpose difficult to judge before it is used.
SM-3 and THAAD Missile tests showing the missiles being fired and intercepting ballistic missiles with dummy warheads.
Meink’s wording does not establish that the United States has placed guns, explosives or missile interceptors in orbit.
Seriously, lasers would be great because they disable, not blow up. Debris fields are bad, mmmkay?
This line stands out, too: “However, he separately said the Space Force had produced flight-ready hardware for planned space-based interceptors under Golden Dome.”
Well, good.
I wrote about all this on Tuesday, but it’s weird how little attention “weapons in orbit” has gotten from the mainstream press. They couldn’t shut up about how “reckless” Reagan was with SDI 40 years ago, slamming it as a Star Wars fantasy.
Maybe they’re quieter now because the stuff works.