LATE BUT WELCOME: US Air Force turns to cheaper cruise missiles it can buy by the thousands. “The deals fall under the U.S. Air Force’s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles program, or FAMM. The Defense Department said it reached agreements with Anduril for its Barracuda-500, CoAspire for its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile and Zone 5 Technologies for its Rusty Dagger.”
You can’t help but notice that none of the old, established defense contractors are on that list.
PEOPLE DON’T TRUST A SYSTEM THAT DOESN’T ENGENDER TRUST…:
It's not necessary to believe in a specific instance of US voter fraud or system corruption to realize that the current system falls far short of the standard one required of any professional database. Essentially there should be an indexed table of voters with primary keys and a…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 17, 2026
…which is why election integrity is an 80/20 issue everywhere but Capitol Hill.
UPDATE (From Ed):
Last night the entire media establishment was spooked. Selfie videos and posts from Dems including Kamala. That says it all. https://t.co/sH5sfQdorW
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 17, 2026
CYNICAL PUBLIUS: Something About England. “A few weeks back, I visited the United Kingdom (mostly England, with some time in Scotland) for the first time in almost a decade. Having been there many times before, I was excited to discover whether all of the horrific news of a swing to tyranny was true or false. Although I started in London for a cruise to Norway, I arrived days earlier so as to explore the heart of London and the countryside of southern England. When I travel internationally, I try to eschew the usual tourist experiences and instead dig into the social milieu of a place. What I found disturbed me. Not only are the reports of a “1984“-style police state true, but the issues of social class, which have always plagued England, have taken on a new and disturbing twist, which I believe will soon result in the wholesale destruction of one of the greatest civilizations ever to exist.”
It’s CP, so read the whole thing.
I’d just add that the birthplace of English liberty — the thing the Founders waged a Revolutionary War to protect here — has become something entirely else. The special relationship wasn’t built on a common language, but on that shared love of liberty.
The British don’t seem to share it any longer. Or at least not the ruling class and the foreigners they continue importing.
THE KING OF MISDIRECTION:
My guess is that the networks thought that President Trump would be speaking about Fulton County last night. They likely had all of their talking points set.
Instead he threw them a curveball, and spoke about the fact that our media had been compromised by foreign entities.…
— ConfirmBias (@Fulcrumbs44) July 17, 2026
SADLY THIS COMES AS NO SURPRISE: Tillis Has One Foot Out the Door and Both Hands on the Senate Brakes.
AT LEAST FROM OVER HERE, HE SEEMED TO BE DOING A FINE JOB: Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s tech-savvy defense minister in government reshuffle.
HE BENT THE KNEE:
BREAKING: Rep. Adam Smith says he voted to cut off military aid to Israel because of sustained threats against his family and staff, describing a violent, relentless intimidation campaign by far-left anti-Israel activists.
Threats and fear should never dictate public policy. pic.twitter.com/F1QvPTBNAS
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 16, 2026
Never bend the knee.
YOU MEAN, THE ONE THEY PRETTY MUCH MEMORY-HOLED? Bessent Has a Personal Message for the Fake News About His Assassination Attempt.
“THE DEEP STATE IS A MYTH,” THEY TOLD ME:
Who instructed this NSA employee to obfuscate CCP election interference and hide it from the President of the United States? pic.twitter.com/TETsSaTRAv
— Ezra A. Cohen (@EzraACohen) July 17, 2026
WELCOME TO THE CLUB, LADIES: A Surge In Black Women Buying Guns Over the Past Decade Has Led to Mushrooming Social Gun Clubs That Go Way Beyond Target Practice.
Going by “FoxCee Washington” in her training mode, in homage to Pam Grier’s fierce film heroine, and often sporting a short curly white wig and thigh-high boots, she organizes “Brunch and Bullets” outings in Atlanta, Miami, and other cities.
They usually start with a tutorial on firearms fundamentals in her Sprinter party van on the way to a shooting range, where she shows her clients, many of them learning to shoot for the first time, how to handle and shoot semi-automatic pistols and rifles with confidence, while concentrating on making them feel comfortable.
“I like to focus on breath work before they even shoot,” she says. “I talk very softly, put my hand on their shoulder. A lot of men that I’ve trained with just put the gun in your hand and say, ‘Go for it.’ And I’m like, ‘This is not what women need, you know? We’ve got a lot of fear and trauma we’re dealing with. We need calm.’ And I’ve had so many amazing responses. Some women cry because they feel relieved.”
More like this, please.
GO AWAY:
🚨 BREAKING: Virginia State Senator Saddam Azlan Salim (D-Fairfax) has introduced Senate Bill 624, legislation that would define "Islamophobia" within Virginia's assault and battery laws while requiring law enforcement to track crimes allegedly motivated by anti-Islam bias.
For… pic.twitter.com/u8WIPC3Nnk
— Rich Penkoski (@WFCPreacher) July 15, 2026
THE “NEWS” IS INCREASINGLY SGT SCHULTZ COSPLAY: After Blacking Out Trump’s Election Speech, Aunt Mary and Uncle John Are Deleting NBC, ABC, and CNN.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC pledges another $100 billion to expand US chipmaking capacity.
The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion. The company also raised its annual revenue forecast after booking record high profits thanks to runaway demand from the boom in artificial intelligence.
The world’s largest contract chip manufacturing and one of the world’s most valuable companies, TSMC is seen as a barometer for the global chip industry and for AI at a time when worries about a potential AI bubble have been buffeting financial markets.
As AI-related demand continues to jump and needs for computing power from data centers surge, TSMC has been expanding chip fabrication plants in the U.S., Japan and Taiwan. It said it is increasing its annual capital expenditure budget for this year to $60 billion-$64 billion, up from an earlier estimate of $52 billion-$56 billion.
And we still need more chips.
NICE WORK, FELLAS:
https://t.co/mdXrwQfhnK pic.twitter.com/SzbO3w0cen
— G (@stevensongs) July 16, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Another Week, Another Gropey Sleazebag Democrat. “Gallego also brings extra heaps of awful to the story. As Catherine goes on to note, he served divorce papers to his wife when she was very, very pregnant and, as we’re all aware, was Eric Swalwell’s defender wingman.”
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Honda is officially pulling the plug on its only EV in the US.
After Honda scrapped plans to launch its next-generation EVs earlier this year- the 0 Series SUV and Sedan, plus the Acura RSX- we had a feeling the Prologue was on the chopping block.
Unlike the 0 Series models, which were set to enter production later this year at Honda’s “EV Hub” in Ohio on a dedicated platform, the Prologue is based on GM’s Ultium platform, the same one that underpins electric vehicles from Chevy, GMC, and Cadillac.
Honda already ended production of the Acura ZDX last year, which was also built on the Ultium platform, leaving the Prologue as its sole EV available in the US.
While Honda dismissed an Automotive News report earlier this year claiming the electric SUV would go out of production in December, saying the “article is based purely on speculation,” the rumors proved true.
There’s a lot of that going on, maybe: Lucid dismisses report that it is weighing filing for bankruptcy or going private after shares plunge.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
Mamdani housing event features a lady in a mask ranting about her landlord, declaring "eviction = violence" pic.twitter.com/el709Zzf88
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 16, 2026
This scene is so out of “The Dark Knight Rises” that it makes you wonder when the show trials begin.
BOOKMARK THIS:
A year or two from now when the stories surface that U.S. jobs have been lost b/c Israel is producing it's own munitions and systems for itself and int'l markets, remember it was forced to do so by the psychopathic isolationist right and DSA-controlled Dems. https://t.co/5SVwd6XNg1
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) July 17, 2026
Also, 10/7 made Israel serious about its defense in a way that not even 9/11 did for us.
JUST SAY YES: Are You Serious? Virginia School Board Refuses to Drug Test Teachers After Classroom Fentanyl Overdose.
The Spotsylvania County School Board rejected both a proposal covering all new hires and rehires with direct student contact and a narrower version limited to employees working with elementary and special education students. Board members Rich Lieberman, Larry DiBella, and Lorita Daniels supported the testing requirements. Four colleagues voted against them.
Superintendent Clint Mitchell urged the board to vote no; at a cost of roughly $25,000 per year, he argued, the district would lose teachers to neighboring counties. His remarks, posted to X by local reporter Nick Minock, circulated widely on Wednesday.
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The superintendent’s argument left Spotsylvania in a revealing position. The district could require a criminal background check, professional credentials, and fingerprints, but a basic drug screen for cocaine, opiates, PCP, and amphetamines was framed as an existential threat to the hiring pipeline. What Mitchell did not address was the incident that prompted the proposal in the first place.In May 2024, a rehired second-grade teacher overdosed on fentanyl in her classroom at Spotswood Elementary School.
Mitchell doesn’t want to send teachers to other counties, but guess which ones will want to come to Spotsylvania?
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: New Sexual Misconduct Allegations Drop Against Sen. Gallego.
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