Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 8, 2026
AGING: It Looks Like We’ve Made a Big Step in Combating Alzheimer’s. “In mid-July, the FDA approved Leqembi, a series of injections that specifically target the plaques that build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Those plaques are what cause the memory loss, behavioral changes, and terminal decline.”
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING:
Unreal. https://t.co/ZX3WrHkfpt pic.twitter.com/bok1lSyakN
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 8, 2026
Full story here but paywalled.
ERIC FLORACK’S DAILY: ‘Trust Us, We’re Normal Now’ — and Other Punchlines.
HMM: US needs mechanics and nurses, but kids want to be influencers.
Young people with realistic goals are likely to succeed. But few students get useful career guidance, writes Anne Kim, senior fellow at FutureEd, on The 74.
Counselors are in short supply, and high schools are still pushing “college for all,” writes Kim. “Despite increasing interest in alternative pathways,” many students — and high school counselors — are “unaware of the careers they could pursue, the availability of jobs locally, and the skills required.” In a 2024 survey, two-thirds of young adults ages 16 to 24 said they “do not know exactly what career they want to pursue.”
The dream career for nearly half of Gen Z respondents in a 2025 Morning Consult survey is “content creator,” notes Kim’s Future Shock report. Working in “media and entertainment” is also a popular goal. They think it’s an easy path to riches. Only a third want a “traditional job.”
No different than kids from previous generations wanting to grow up to be baseball players or movie stars, really.
WHEN SECONDS COUNT…:
Firefighters in Ceuta, Spain, climbed onto an aerial ladder truck and unfurled a huge Spanish flag alongside a banner reading “EUROPE HELP” as residents gathered to demand action over the migration crisis facing the Spanish enclave.
The demonstration was organized by Ceuta’s… pic.twitter.com/QzAIERAUBS
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 8, 2026
…Europe is nowhere to be found.
BUT BEWARE THE CHURCHILL EFFECT: How to Virtually Eliminate Gang Violence With This One Weird Trick.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Wolford Enforcement: DOJ Sues Maryland County for Prohibiting Carry in Churches, Synagogues. “Houses of worship are often targeted by people with murder on their minds. That’s especially true of synagogues, which were disproportionately attacked even before October 7 and have since been on the receiving end of the ‘antizionist’ reframing of hatred of Jews. But in Montgomery County, Maryland, officials recently renewed efforts to forbid the carrying of firearms within 100 yards of ‘places of public assembly,’ including churches and synagogues. Now, some security volunteers are defying the intrusive law as they await the outcome of courtroom pushback against the restrictions.”
THE NEW SPACE RACE (AFFORDABILITY EDITION):
The Space Launch System costs $4.1 billion per launch. One launch.
NASA's own inspector general confirmed that number. Boeing builds the core stage. Northrop Grumman builds the solid rocket boosters. Aerojet Rocketdyne supplies the engines. Every one of those contracts flows to… pic.twitter.com/Uwe87nN4Dh
— Handre (@Handre) September 8, 2026
Exit quote: “The SLS is a constituency management program wearing a rocket as a costume.”
HENCE THE WARNINGS AGAINST COCKSURENESS: Blue Wave? Phooey! Nobody Knows Nuthin’ No How.
BIG MONEY: $1.3 Billion In Attempted Medicare Fraud. “An illegal alien from the country of Georgia allegedly spent five months running a Pennsylvania medical equipment company that filed $1.3 billion in fraudulent claims against Medicare and private insurers, then funneled the proceeds to a Russia-based criminal network.”
A REMINDER TO KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY (AND KEEP LOTS OF POWDER):
“You better get ready for … war.” Across the country, radicals are openly planning for the next stage of their movement, and notably, the Democratic establishment is not part of their plans…. https://t.co/JRwpcWofTK
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) September 8, 2026
TRUMP WARNED US THERE WOULD BE AN ADJUSTMENT PERIOD…: Trumponomics triumphs in US jobs report — just in time for the midterms.
American manufacturing is on the rebound — and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now.
Manufacturing isn’t the only sector that’s on a hiring spree; businesses across the board added 162,000 new jobs in August.
Even The New York Times called the latest employment numbers “zesty.”
The paper quoted T. Rowe Price’s chief US economist, Blerina Uruci: “It’s a very good report . . . And it perhaps shows that financial conditions more broadly are not that tight.”
The workforce participation rate rose as well — which matters, because people who drop out of the labor force are invisible in unemployment rates that only count those who are looking for work.
This economy is pulling Americans who’d given up hope off the sidelines and putting them to work.
That’s a success not only for Trump’s economic policy, but for his immigration crackdown, too.
…and it looks more and more like we’re through the worst of it.
CHOOSE WISELY, NEBRASKA:
"There's the campaigning side to get elected, and then there's once you get into office, what are you going to do?" https://t.co/v1pZc0q7Fk
— Jim Antle (@jimantle) September 8, 2026
Also, his campaign website says he’s a “lifelong independent,” but there’s an ActBlue donation button.
#RESIST: Drone Warfare Comes for Shoplifters… and for You? “Drones and security cameras are cheap and increasingly effective. Like it or not, they’re here to stay. But that doesn’t mean we have to acquiesce like the fighting couple in Minority Report.”
MEMORY HOLED: A 9/11 Story Some Want Us to Forget.
“The Path to 9/11” aired exactly once, two decades ago. Then it vanished. ABC hasn’t shown it since. The network has refused to release it on a disc or as a download. No streaming service carries it.
It’s almost like someone doesn’t want you to watch it.
Millions of Americans saw the docudrama in 2006, on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. It played across two nights, without commercials. Its major inspiration was the final report of the 9/11 Commission, the bipartisan panel empowered by federal law to investigate the terrorist attacks.
“Few people actually read the report,” says Quinn Taylor, the former ABC executive who conceived of the show, in an interview. “Our goal was to put it in living rooms and make people think.”
ABC invested more than $40 million in the project. It signed up stars such as Harvey Keitel, Patricia Heaton, Amy Madigan, Donnie Wahlberg and others. There was talk of broadcasting “The Path to 9/11” annually, as a public service. The idea was to portray the national-security lapses that allowed Osama bin Laden to deliver death and destruction to America. The hope was to keep the country alert and vigilant.
“The Path to 9/11” is a gripping story of failure. I watched it 20 years ago and wrote about it favorably. I recently rewatched it, having saved promotional DVDs from back in the day. It holds up well as a dramatic chronicle of what went wrong.
This is more about the Swamp protecting its own than anything else — so read the whole thing, out from behind the WSJ paywall.
GOODER AND HARDER, MASSACHUSETTS:
2015: "Healey said we do not need increased gas capacity and that electric ratepayers shouldn't foot the bill for additional pipelines"
2025: "Gas is so volatile, you know, and we don't even produce it here. And with Jones Act and other things, it's hard for us to even get it… https://t.co/hGKZ7gqN2F pic.twitter.com/761PFm7Uxt
— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) September 6, 2026
NICE WORK, FELLAS: U.S. Interdicts Drug Traffickers’ Floating Refueling Station.
THAT’S A REAL SHAME: Georgetown U. students miffed pre-orientation program no longer ‘identity-focused.’
According to The Hoya, the center’s Young Leaders in Education, Advocacy & Dialogue program, aka YLEAD, was changed last August to Total Hoya Readiness: Intro to Vocation and Experience, or THRIVE, which no longer has programming related to identity and diversity.
YLEAD used to “foster dialogue” about “ability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and social class,” according to the Hoya’s review of the center’s archived webpages.
Solene DeGaynor, a former YLEAD participant who later became a THRIVE coordinator, said she was “disappointed” the university moved away from the original program.
“We did a lot of presentations on what it means to be a woman on campus, what it means to be a person of color in a predominantly white institution,” DeGaynor said. “That was really helpful in terms of understanding how identity intersects and plays a role in how you operate on a college campus.”
DeGaynor added that the new THRIVE is more about “academic success” and “access[ing] to all of the resources” at Georgetown.
Campus relations were so much better before schools started to “foster dialogue” about “ability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, religion, age, sexual orientation, and social class.”
WHAT SHE SAID:
Everyone else always gets the blame, never the Muslim terrorists who hijacked the planes, or the centuries of Islamic terrorism and jihadism.
Fuck off already. We’re sick of you. https://t.co/f4eMLHKN30— Sana Ebrahimi Ledene (@SanaELedene) September 8, 2026
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: DOJ Charges Illegal Voters in Battleground States.
ANOTHER STIMULUS, XI? China says it will pump $54 billion into banks and insurers — but their stocks still fell. “The moves build on a 500 billion yuan capital injection into four major state banks last year and a pledge in March to issue 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds this year to replenish capital at large state lenders. China’s banking sector has been grinding through a multiyear margin compression, as Beijing pushes lenders to keep credit cheap for struggling borrowers. The net interest margins — the spread between what banks earn on loans and pay on deposits — fell to record lows this year.”
INSTANT KARMA:
HE TEXTED ICE HE WAS VOTING DEMOCRAT IN THE MIDTERMS.
That’s how they caught him.
Honduran noncitizen. California voter roll. Already on probation for blocking an ICE building — then he kept texting the agent that he couldn’t wait for November so their immunity would be gone.… pic.twitter.com/VjyBSkMOos
— QThestorm (@17QStorm) September 7, 2026
Also, that thing that never happens happened again.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Going to Be a Big Week for IslamoFAUXbia. “I frequently write about the fact that American leftists live in an alternate, fictional reality. One of the biggest fictions that they peddle is that Islamic terrorism isn’t a problem but the white Christians are a powder keg that’s ready to blow. It’s wearisome and dangerous. When Democrats are in charge, they’re never looking for the real bad guys.”