THEY’RE LESS UGLY AND TAKE UP LESS SPACE THAN OFFSHORE WINDFARMS: The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better.’
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 10, 2026
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Gator-Infested Waters. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn not to go out of the frying pan and into the gator-infested waters, that ‘no contact’ means ‘no contact,’ and Indiana Man’s one weird trick for starting fires.”
IT ISN’T EVEN SURPRISING HOW FLAGRANT THE CITY’S ACTIONS ARE:
WOAH 🚨 My jaw literally dropped listening to this
The Los Angeles Police Department came and tried to clean up Skid Row and in a response a nonprofit working with Mayor Karen Bass SUED THEM and stopped police from EVEN BEING ALLOWED TO ENTER
“LA CAN, which is another… pic.twitter.com/VEUuDkFof9
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) July 10, 2026
But it does make you wonder what Bass’s take might be.
THIS TREND GOES BACK DECADES AND UNDER BOTH PARTIES, BUT THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT GOOD: Uncle Sam’s armory outfits Colorado cops with military gear.
What’s surprising to me is how little concern there seems to be among majority Democrats about this, particularly from the more progressive members. One would struggle to total up the quantity of words spoken and written by them about “defunding” the police or distrusting the judicial system, yet I can’t think of the last time I heard one of them mention military equipment used by those same police.
You’d think there’d be all kinds of heartburn about it.
Not while the Progressives are the ones issuing the orders, no.
BRANDING:
In the spirit of designating every minority enclave of the city, I'm officially renaming my district 'Little America'.
Here we welcome refugees from the rest of the city who want to live amongst a culture reminiscent of the nation they once knew as The United States, which New… pic.twitter.com/thdH3fPTli
— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) July 10, 2026
And from the replies: “An emphasis on the 2nd Amendment may help in your enclave.”
Helps anywhere, really.
UNEXPECTEDLY: California wolves are eating much more cattle than wild prey, study finds.
The return of the wolf in California has been met with joy by conservationists, who delight in the improbable population rebound, and with fury by ranchers who bemoan the toll on their cattle.
Now, a new study on the diet of gray wolves suggests that the population regrowth is a result of the animals feasting on cattle, as their natural prey sources remain comparatively scarce.
Researchers at UC Davis found cattle DNA in 72% of wolf scat samples collected in the summers of 2022 and 2023.
By comparison mule deer, the primary natural prey for wolves in California, appeared in 45% of samples, and small mammals appeared in 51% of samples.
“Whether it’s through scavenging or whether it’s through depredation, [cattle are] a huge component of the wolves’ diet,” said Tina Saitone, lead study author and professor in the UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics Department. “Their conservation success is because of livestock producers in the state.”
Whether it’s in California or here in Colorado, I’m convinced that wolf reintroduction is just another way for lefties to stick it to conservative ranchers.
CORN, POPPED: Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun.
The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete. But pundits, activists, and members of the Trump administration have long insisted that the case is closed, and that the virus slipped out from a lab in China. They’ve maintained the view that U.S. scientists were involved and later tried to hide the facts. They’ve said that justice must be served.
Now the reckoning they want appears to have arrived. An expert on the flu got hauled off by the FBI. A coronavirus researcher was indicted in Detroit. Two prominent virologists stepped down or were removed from senior roles. And a fifth infectious-disease researcher—Anthony Fauci, the central figure in an alleged “lab-leak” cover-up—was recently subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate.
The precise timing of these cases, which have all come to light since April, may be a coincidence. Yet all five are centered on a small community of scientists affiliated with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci ran for nearly 40 years.
Of course — and read the whole thing.
SO THAT’S WHY THEY STOPPED TEACH ARISTOTLE:
— Truth Teller (@GuidedBill) July 10, 2026
YOU’D BE AMAZED IF THERE WASN’T ONE: Hold On — Was There a Dirty Quid Quo Bro for Graham Platner?
SMART: US Navy Issued RFIs to Korean Shipbuilders for Destroyers and Oilers. “The United States Navy has formally requested information from South Korea’s leading shipbuilders regarding their capabilities to quickly build destroyers and oilers, according to media reports in Korea. The Korean news agency Yonhap revealed that the U.S. Navy had issued requests for information last month, marking the first formal requests since South Korea launched its “Make American Shipbuilding Great Again” commitments.”
It sucks that we can’t do this domestically any longer — or at least no time soon — but this is where decades of bipartisan neglect by lawmakers and bad planning by the Navy have left us.
HIS LEGACY HAS CERTAINLY AGED BETTER THAN MORE RECENT PRESIDENTS WHO LEFT WITH HIGHER POLL NUMBERS:
Nixon will be vindicated, been saying it for years https://t.co/o7wTAPHa9x
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) July 9, 2026
OR MAYBE THE DOG WILL EAT HIS HOMEWORK: Platner privately told staff he’ll formally exit Senate race Monday.
Graham Platner privately told staff that he is planning to officially file paperwork to end his Senate campaign on Monday — the drop-dead deadline for him to exit the race.
Why it matters: Though Democrats largely appear to think Platner is done with his bid, his last-minute timing is likely to cause a final pang of anxiety within the party.
Driving the news: Platner made the comments to his team Wednesday night shortly before he announced publicly he was suspending his campaign.
It seems unlikely, but I sure wouldn’t be surprised if he somehow managed to accidentally miss the deadline…
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE COULDN’T BE BOTHERED TO LOOK UP FROM ITS BOOK:
Hahaha @nytimes doubles down https://t.co/pYeFRs682c pic.twitter.com/2VVogBQtwN
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 10, 2026
COLD COMFORT — AT BEST: It Looks Like the Democrats Have Been Sending Their Best All Along.
MAYBE BARI WEISS HAS MADE SOME REAL CHANGES AT CBS NEWS:
CBS News anchor tells viewers Democrats dropped Platner because he was looking 'like a loser' https://t.co/go1sW5WHLJ pic.twitter.com/Z1knUPDJyV
— Chris 🇺🇸 (@Chris_1791) July 10, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Trigger Lefties With Talk of a Third Term for President Trump. “I continue to marvel at not only how much President Donald Trump has on his plate, but also at the vigor with which he deals with it all. Yes, it’s true that presidents tend to have a lot on their plates, but this president has extra helpings because of the nightmare that preceded him in the Oval Office.”
STEPHEN CLARK BURIED THE LEDE MORE THAN HALFWAY DOWN ON THIS ONE: Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
A new report from the Aerospace Corporation helps elucidate why satellite companies are optimizing for Starship. It’s big and reusable, and once operational, it could cut the cost of launching a kilogram of payload into orbit by an order of magnitude from the Falcon 9. This means costs could come down from a few thousand dollars per kilogram to a few hundred.
Karen Jones, a space economist and lead author of the paper, said her research supports some of those optimistic cost projections. She outlines three scenarios, two of which assume an initial launch cost of $100 million for each fully reusable Starship and Super Heavy booster, with marginal costs of 20 or 35 percent. This is in line with the marginal costs of the smaller, partially reusable Falcon 9, which SpaceX can launch for as little as $15 million per flight on a dedicated Starlink mission.
This would bring the per-kilogram launch cost for a fully loaded Starship down to $133 to $233 after 10 reuse cycles. A more optimistic scenario with a $50 million initial launch cost and 20 percent marginal cost would reduce payload costs to $67 per kilogram for a Starship/Super Heavy launch at full capacity after nine use cycles. That’s less than it costs to fill the gas tanks of most SUVs. If SpaceX can make these more optimistic ambitions a reality, it would validate a claim made by Elon Musk in 2022 that a Starship flight could eventually cost as little as $10 million.
“I actually thought I would basically disprove that [claim], and on my first try, I got to $67 per kilogram after nine use cycles,” Jones told Ars. “It’s based upon some significant assumptions in the paper, but it’s not something that’s completely crazy. It certainly wouldn’t be something they’d reach on the first few times, on their first model; but over time, and with a learning curve, why not? I think it’s possible.”
As veteran aerospace engineer Will Collier reminded me recently, “These [Wall Street] analyst dweebs just have no clue what daily orbital access at under $100/kg means.”
Indeed.
NOW THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR:
It isn’t science fiction, it’s our next mission.
Our Mission Robotic Vehicle will soon head to orbit, making space house calls to satellites running low on fuel and installing satellite “jetpacks” to extend their service lives by up to eight years.
It’s never been done before,… pic.twitter.com/bKmIkHe8cJ
— Northrop Grumman (@northropgrumman) July 9, 2026
BEEGE: Bari Bruising 60 Minutes Egos Again, But I Like the Backstory. “The monster has emerged from her lair to once more interfere with a 60 Minutes assignment, and heads are exploding. An interview of Nigel Farage that was to have been conducted by veteran correspondent (and, believe me, partisan witch) Holly Williams was suddenly taken from her and reassigned to some new guy.”
THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE:
This is amazing.
Scott Galloway on Elon Musk's "nazi salutes" (which didn't actually happen) vs. Scott Galloway on Graham Platner's nazi tattoo.
What a broken mind. What an absolute clown. pic.twitter.com/iP3zcEj4Iq
— MAZE (@mazemoore) July 9, 2026