TURNABOUT IS AMUSING AS HELL: Michael Cohen Helped Convict Trump. Now Guess Who Holds the Pardon Pen.

FASTER, PLEASE: US Air Force seeks ‘rapidly deployable’ drone swarms for base security.

The U.S. Air Force is looking to turn its cargo planes into launch platforms for drone swarms.

Or more specifically, the service would like transport aircraft and their retinue of drones to deploy to Air Force bases. Once there, this swarm of AI-controlled drones would autonomously defend the bases — and any aircraft parked there — from attack.

The goal is to transform cargo planes into “adaptive, force-multiplying launch platforms” that provide “a rapidly deployable swarm for base security,” according to an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research solicitation.

It sounds cool in theory, but given the nature of the drone threat, I can’t imagine why each base shouldn’t have its own instead of waiting for the swarm to deploy from somewhere else.

YOU WANT MORE MANUFACTURING?

Manufacturing profits are skyrocketing, up $64.2 billion from Q1 to Q2 and up $143.8 billion Y/Y: pic.twitter.com/WtERqiEcdt

— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) September 9, 2026

This is how you get more manufacturing.

TIM O’BRIEN: The Dirty Little Secret Behind Mamdani’s Attempt to Make the 9/11 Anniversary About Him.

As I wrote earlier today, Mamdani is taking “the actions of a Bolshevik seizing power, or an occupying army.”

ONCE THE CURIOSITY SEEKERS GOT THEIRS, THERE WAS NOBODY LEFT: Hunter Biden’s laptop-linked meme coin soars, then falls after market debut.

The $LAPTOP coin quickly surged from $37 to around $222 within its first hour. But the cryptocurrency is trading around $1.36 just after 3 p.m. EDT, according to Coinmarketcap.com, a database tracking cryptocurrency prices.

The coin dropped around 95 percent in value since its launch.

The behavior is in line with the typical lifespan of meme coins, which do not carry any intrinsic value but often surge in price because of social media hype around their launch.

Has Hunter considered selling NFTs or collectible spoons?

WHEN THE ELITES DESPISE THE PEOPLE WHO ELECTED THEM TO SERVE:

Chancellor Merz stated today that “Remigration” is nothing more than ethnic cleansing

According to Merz, deporting millions of illegal migrants, criminal migrants, social welfare-dependent migrants, Islamists and non-integrated migrants would be a crime pic.twitter.com/fmfVFs6DL2

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 9, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Unconventional Midterm Convention Is Quintessential Trump. “The optics of Fetterman’s video were undeniable: he was the guy we were sure would be flying the commie freak flag for the Dems when he was elected, now he’s the sanest one in the Senate and uncomfortable with his party’s hammer and sickle vibe. No Republican has ever understood optics like Donald Trump.”

NO THANK YOU: Meta launches AI agent that can access other apps to send emails, make payments.

Modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, Muse is designed to access a person’s apps across categories like email, calendar, payments, health, shopping and the smart home, Meta said. People choose which apps it connects to and can revoke access at any time.

Each Muse agent runs on its own virtual machine, a cloud-based emulation of a personal computer, which enables it to keep carrying out requests in the background even when a person is not actively using it.

Syncing up with apps containing a person’s real data both increases the agent’s potential usefulness and significantly raises the stakes for safety, both for the people who have entrusted it with their information and for others who may be on the receiving end of agent misbehavior.

Vishal Shah, vice president of AI products at Meta, told Reuters the company had initially delayed the release of the product in April to make it more secure.

But the whole point is to give it access to your files and even your payments. Much as I love my AI tools, I keep them safely inside their sandbox.

REMINDER:

The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949, but go on, counselor. https://t.co/iQkeOxWPmo

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 9, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: The Sick, Twisted Conspiracy to Rewrite the Horror — and the Lessons — of 9/11.

DEMOCRATS AND THE VOTERS WHO ENABLE THEM. NEXT QUESTION? California Has the Nation’s Highest Gas Prices—Who’s to Blame?

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, THEY TOLD ME. TRUST THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT, THEY SAID:

There is something deeply wrong with our scientific establishment.

Fraudulent Cancer Research Papers Increased 10x in Recent Years https://t.co/f79y0Te1Ys

— David Strom (@DavidStrom) September 9, 2026

THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY IS OUT FROM BEHIND THE VIP PAYWALL: Let’s Talk 9/11, Then and Now.

I BELIEVE THE WORD FOR THAT IS SOCIOPATH:

There is an idea of Gavin Newsom, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real him, only an entity, something illusory, and though he can hide his cold gaze and you can shake his hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense your lifestyles are probably… https://t.co/gkotyNbnyM

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2026

LIVEBLOG: GOP 2026 Midterm Convention, Night One.

Just in time for Mountain zone cocktail hour, too.

HE’S RIGHT, AND THE PHOTO FROM SCLAW IS JUST THE TOPPER:

Here's a photo of the 2025 graduating class from Harvard Medical School.

[Photo Credit: Steve Lipofsky for HMS] pic.twitter.com/4o7M1POxxv

— SCLaw (@_SCLaw_) September 9, 2026

GO ON AND TAKE THE RED PILL: Chris Rock says Trump was ‘right’ about ‘fake’ news, ‘doesn’t want to say something mean and get canceled.’

WHAT A MESS: Conflicting court rulings leave Missouri’s congressional map in limbo.

In one, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an order issued by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, left in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative that could lead to voters rejecting the newly drawn district lines moves forward. Kavanaugh handles emergency requests that arise from Missouri.

But soon after, a federal judge in Missouri ruled in favor of two GOP congressional candidates who argue that the new map, which was in place for the August primaries, must be used in November in order to avoid federal constitutional violations. That case could also quickly face U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny with time running out for the map to be finalized. The state’s deadline to finalize ballots was 5 p.m local time, and first ballots are set to go out Sept. 19.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe and Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, both Republicans, said on X Tuesday evening that the redrawn map would be used for the November election.

Or maybe not.

MOST OF MY TEACHERS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UP WERE MEN, AND ALL THE BEST ONES WERE…:

It’s worth remembering also that blind and non-blind tests shows that female teachers deliberately tend to grade boys lower than girls. No other civilisation in history has ever handed over young males to resentful women for their formation, except ours. It’s a disaster. https://t.co/CCVzB4m8QG

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) September 9, 2026

…and I wish I’d recognized then how great a benefit that was.

ICYMI: Investors Are Totally Stoked About This New Rocket.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: St. Louis Sheriff’s Office reaches settlement over firing of white, older employees.

EEOC investigated the Sheriff’s Office and found that former Sheriff Alfred Montgomery used his position to terminate nearly a dozen white employees and two black employees for reasons other than their job performance. Before he was sworn in, Montgomery publicly announced that he “could not wait to get rid of these white officers” and “top-heavy” employees, a reference to older workers, the EEOC found.

Montgomery also allegedly referred to the white employees he terminated as a “racist gang.” After firing the white officers, Montgomery allegedly told his former deputy that “he needed to fire a black guy” to buck a lawsuit for discrimination against white employees.

That — and a bunch of other stuff — doesn’t seem to have worked out for him.

GOOD LORD:

This is an astonishing sequence of events and is consistent with the video seen earlier this week.

Key take aways:

1. Pilots had little experience on type.
2. Speed brake not deployed. This dumps lift and makes braking more effective.
3. Reversers not used.
4. A decision to… pic.twitter.com/T2X9f91YbU

— Scott Bateman MBE (@scottiebateman) September 9, 2026

More:

4. A decision to go around was made whilst on runway.
5. Above decision was reversed and sealed their fate.

These facts paint a very confusing picture of what was happening on this flight deck. Every approach we brief a plan A, which is obviously to land and stop. But we also set some very clear bottom lines, those that must be met to assure a safe landing. These are decided at a period of low workload, often some distance from the airfield. The time to set these is not when you’re working hard to get the jet down. This is where your capacity is limited and having these bottom lines is key to a safe outcome.

Setting these empowers either pilot to call a go around if these aren’t met. The pilot monitoring should never be thinking “what’s going on now?”

KC-10 Driver added, with just the right amount of understatement, “That’s a really troubling series of events.”

CORN, POPPED: Russiagate Is Finally Heading Somewhere Washington Hates: Under Oath.

UM: Unrepentant Elizabeth Holmes already plotting biotech comeback from behind bars: ‘Shameless and delusional.’ “The Theranos fraudster, 42, has managed to help her husband raise a reported $18 million for another blood testing startup, The Post has learned.”

Could I get the names and numbers of her new investors? Asking for a friend with a bridge to sell.

THESE ARE HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS — WE JUST LIVE IN THEM:

Norm MacDonald called the term "cisgender" "a way to marginalize a normal person." We all laughed and felt like we had triumphed.

Eight years later, the New York state legislature voted to replace the term "mother" with "gestating parent" and "father" with "non-gestating… https://t.co/K7AJjXT92f

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 9, 2026

Don’t forget to get your gestating parent something nice for Gestating Parent Day.