HEH: The U.S. Has 13 Times the Economy — Carney Has 13 Times the Pout.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Broken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters jailed over Iran protests.

After four months of desperately seeking news from hospitals and state institutions, their mother, Marzieh Nourmohammadi, finally learned their fate. Taraneh and Romina Rahimi had been seized over their decision to join millions on the streets of Iranian cities during the January protests against the regime. The twins were unrecognisable by the time of their mother’s prison visit in May.

The women’s scalps were patchy from being dragged around by their hair, and their faces were bruised, according to their US-based cousin. It is claimed that Taraneh, who dreams of running her own horse stable one day, had been told the prison guards would rape Romina in front of her unless a confession was signed.

The visit by their mother to Dowlatabad prison, in Isfahan, the main city in central Iran, was five months ago. It has now emerged from the Iranian courts that Taraneh has been sentenced to death for her participation in the January protests, and that Romina has been given a 25-year prison sentence. Neither of the women have been seen by their family since the sentencing.

Read the whole thing, provided you can stomach it.

WE HAVE A MURDEROUS WHITE PROGRESSIVE WOMEN PROBLEM:

Amanda Duarte crawled, so Lindsay Clancy could run https://t.co/vQrAqTpYit pic.twitter.com/Z3dIdszNgB

— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) September 6, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Laboring to Defeat Communism Is What We’re Doing Here. “While labor and workers are most definitely noble, leftist lunatics have taken both words and perverted them for communist purposes. They’re rallying cries for anti-American and anti-capitalist agitators. The labor movement that began as a way to protect and empower American workers who were in legitimate need of both soon became the driving force behind all that is wrong in this country with political power and personal responsibility.”

WELL DONE: German startup makes European space history with first successful orbital launch.

A German startup successfully sent a rocket into orbit, marking a major milestone for Europe’s push to develop its own commercial space-launch industry.

The 28-meter rocket lifted off from Isar Aerospace’s launch complex in Norway on Saturday night, carrying a payload of five small satellites, in the first successful commercial orbital launch from continental European soil.

“We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe,” the company said on X.

More lift is good.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:

This is false. LOL. No one tried to attack her. He was trying to take a picture. He has a concealed carry permit, which is why the gun stayed in the holster. Stop inventing a story that isn’t there. https://t.co/YrVJYIRl0N

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) September 7, 2026

Here’s a Community Note that could use a little push to reach Helpful status: “While Patrick Havas forced his way through the crowd while carrying weapons, police state he did not brandish them or lunge at Acton. He approached holding a cellphone to record.”

WELL, GOOD: Trump Is Looking to Make Sanctuary Cities Pay the Price for Protecting Violent Immigrants.

UM…: US troops can still be tracked by purchased location data, and Congress wants to know why.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-NC) on Friday asked for an investigation by the Defense Department Inspector General into policies that have only partially stanched the flow of location data that allows military personnel to be tracked and targeted.

In May, Wyden, Harrigan, and a bipartisan group of 12 other members of Congress released details about how commercially purchased location data – often captured by mobile apps and advertising SDKs – can be used to identify where US military personnel gather and to target those locations. They noted that the DoD has been aware of this threat since at least 2016.

The lawmakers urged Defense Department CIO Kirsten A. Davies to take steps to mitigate this risk, including turning off advertising identifiers on DoD smartphones and issuing a policy requiring the disabling of advertising identifiers on all personal devices brought into DoD facilities or overseas.

This seems like no-brainer stuff, and the DOD has sat on it for a decade?

NOW THAT WOULD BE SOME CHANGE:

🚨HOLY SMOKES! 🇩🇪 GERMANY's “AfD”ALICE WEIDEL ANNOUNCES THE ABOLITION OF THE EU ONCE THEY WIN THE UPCOMING ELECTION:

"We will LEAVE the European Union. We don’t need the EU. We will send back ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, and increase BORDER SECURITY." pic.twitter.com/81ELnscEq6

— JackTheRippler ©️ (@RippleXrpie) September 6, 2026

TIM O’BRIEN: When Nike Embraced Victimhood.

MEANWHILE, IN BRITAIN…:

Yesterday they shut down Dover.

Right now they're preventing invaders being brought in.

LIVE Right now;https://t.co/R1gKS0n7kY

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 6, 2026

“SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING:”

Mamdani hands symbolic 9/11 pen to former lawyer of al-Qaeda terrorist: 'tone deaf' https://t.co/UH4ZWlZmTi pic.twitter.com/MBN9O6bDGf

— New York Post (@nypost) September 5, 2026

JUST ABOUT THE MOST UN-AMERICA THING ANYBODY EVER SAID:

Man. We really let the universities just cook our entire country. https://t.co/DwYglrfLS9

— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 4, 2026

THE LONG COUNTER-MARCH:

The Counter-March – What You Actually Do on Monday

Gramsci’s side won because ordinary people made ordinary career decisions with a fifty-year horizon. Not heroes. Teachers, editors, functionaries, each one making a choice that looked small. That is the whole secret, and it is… https://t.co/OL0y9fZ1Kb

— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) September 5, 2026

Read the whole thing, but this last point stands out: “Play the fifty-year game. The march took from 1968 to roughly 2015 to complete. Anyone expecting a decisive victory in one electoral cycle will quit in disappointment, which is itself part of why the other side won. Choose things that compound: skills, institutions, children, reputations.”

I’d also add that conservatives largely checked out (or were forced out) of the arts — and that was every bit as damaging as any political or economic losses.

HEY, BIG SPENDER:

Epstein-associated billionaire @reidhoffman gave more than ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS for @jamestalarico campaign PAC “Lone Star Rising”! https://t.co/IFunQfbQqi

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 5, 2026

Something, something, billionaires buying our elections.

GUN CONTROL LAWS ARE MEANT TO INCONVENIENCE OR EVEN DISARM THE LAW-ABIDING. NEXT QUESTION? Why Bother Having Gun Control Laws When Federal Judges Give Passes to Criminals Who Violate Them?

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Mayor Mamdani Up All Night Practicing Sad Face For Upcoming 9/11 Observance https://t.co/gp7FHTYtUs

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 4, 2026

LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: CNN botches Gloria Steinem tribute days after embarrassing Dolly Parton impersonator mix-up.

LIVING HISTORY: Inside The ‘Top Secret’ Plan That Led To Biggest Pro-Second Amendment Ruling In 90 Years.

With a change in presidential administrations came a change in attitude toward the devices. In 2021, the Biden administration began pushing to classify the items as “short-barreled rifles” under the NFA, and issued a final regulation to that effect in January 2023, giving those who owned firearms with those devices 120 days to register them with ATF in an “amnesty” before they would face a potential ten-year prison sentence.

Pro-Second Amendment groups challenged the regulation in court almost immediately, eventually securing court orders blocking it. However, they also began to eye a legislative fix to the issue once President Donald Trump won a second term.

“One thing we could do is we could work with the [second Trump] administration to undo that regulation,” Johnston said. “The other thing we could do is just nullify that statute, try to repeal that statute.”

Despite the straightforward nature of the plan, GOA didn’t want to broadcast their intentions and risk pushback from anti-Second Amendment organizations. Therefore, it didn’t openly discuss any moves pertaining to federal legislation regarding suppressors or other items covered by the National Firearms Act in its national alerts at the start of the 119th Congress.

Well played — and do read the whole thing.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Fought the Law and the Law Won Real Good. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to take a totally deserved beating, why to keep it in your pants at the park, and that for some people, holstering your pistol might not be as easy as it looks.”

SPACE IS HARD: Is Russia’s rival to Starlink failing? Here’s what we know.

THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE DISMISSED THE ACCORDS AS “TACTICS OF THE PRIOR ADMINISTRATION”:

The Lebanese MP and Sunni leader @fmakhzoumi has told @MiddleEast_24 that Lebanon could join the Abraham Accords after Hezbollah is disarmed.

He makes it clear that peace with Israel would be nothing but good for the country. pic.twitter.com/S2gntxGZAk

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 4, 2026

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Portland Cops FAFO After Appeasing Antifa Terrorists.

SPACE: ‘A new mission starting today’: 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival.

Today’s maneuver doesn’t place BepiColombo in orbit around Mercury quite yet. MPO and Mio will spend the next several weeks navigating toward the planet ahead of orbital insertion on Nov. 21. “Arriving to Mercury is not as simple as other missions that do a big maneuver and they are there,” said Elsa Montagnon, BepiColombo’s operations manager. “In our case, it’s going to be six months of continuous activities.”

The Nov. 21 arrival will begin a sequence of 16 maneuvers to progressively lower and reshape BepiColombo’s orbit. Mio is scheduled to separate from MPO around Dec. 9 and settle into a highly elliptical polar orbit. MPO will jettison Mio’s MOSIF sunshield (Magnetospheric Orbiter Sunshield and Interface Structure) on Dec. 16, then continue lowering its own altitude before reaching its own polar orbit on March 10, 2027.

BepiColombo is scheduled to begin science operations on April 6, 2027, with MPO and Mio studying Mercury simultaneously from complementary orbits. MPO will focus on Mercury’s surface composition, geology and planetary interior, while Mio will investigate the planet’s magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind.

Here’s to hoping everything goes as planned — and the images ought to be outstanding.

BREAKING: The Lindsay Clancy Child Killing Legal Circus Collapses. “The goat rodeo known as the Lindsay Clancy trial is staggering to the finish line, and it looks like mom could be retried for strangling to death her two toddlers and her baby. A state supreme court justice ruled in a last-minute emergency appeal that the judge in the case was right to declare a mistrial. Under a mistrial, double jeopardy would not apply and she could be retried.”