OH, CANADA! What If Carney Were Maduro-ed? “Trump is shrewd, but he is also unpredictable. He will do whatever he regards as essential to safeguard America’s prosperity, autonomy, security, and overall health in a drug-infested and perilous world. Do not put anything past him, not even the presumably inconceivable. He could just as easily pluck Carney like a weed in his North American garden as allow Canada to subsist of its own accord into terminal decay. Which, in any event, seems to be its current policy under a prime minister hellbent on economic devastation.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
February 26, 2026
NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT:
Quote: "From this day forward you will never see a headline in the political press referring to Graham Platner, the candidate in question, as a communist, though that’s how he described himself as recently as 2020. " https://t.co/IoDIguv8bz
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 26, 2026
“Definitely not a communist with a Nazi tattoo who thinks political violence is cool.”
IS IT REALLY AS HIGH AS 10%?
Yes. pic.twitter.com/AfdlnyJzmw
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 25, 2026
CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Oregon Dems vote against notifying ICE when illegal immigrant felons are released from jail. “Under Oregon’s sanctuary state statute, known as the ‘Sanctuary Promise,’ local and state law enforcement are forbidden from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, including ICE detainers. The state has repeatedly released illegal immigrants charged with serious felony crimes, including murder, kidnapping, child rape, and illicit drug distribution, into the public after refusing to notify federal authorities. Many of them have reoffended.”
THE CORROSIVE EFFECTS OF LEFTISM IN ONE CHART:
They’re being taught to hate America https://t.co/S8w4WOQTkp
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: I Blame Obama for the Churlish Behavior of Today’s Dems. “Obama himself put poison in the well whenever he could, referring to us as ‘enemies’ and throwing law enforcement under the bus every chance he got. It’s a simple game of connect-the-dots to get from there to Dem behavior in Minneapolis. Let’s not forget that people who didn’t vote for him were bitter and clinging to our guns and religion.”
CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Over a quarter million federal jobs reduced in 2025 from nearly two dozen agencies.
As a result of a concerted effort by the second Trump administration to reduce the size of the civilian federal workforce, the total staff of 23 of the largest executive-branch agencies shrunk by roughly 3% in the first half of 2025, with 144,000 additional jobs cut by year’s end.
The numbers come from a newly released report from the Government Accountability Office, which was tasked with tracking staffing changes across 24 federal agencies in the first half of last year. One agency did not provide the requested data, so data from 23 agencies is included in the report.
The president issued several executive orders in the first few months of 2025 directing much of the executive branch to trim its workforce, as well as a memorandum that put a hiring freeze on federal civilian employees. (The memorandum did include exemptions for the military, immigration enforcement, national security and public safety positions.)
Despite several ongoing lawsuits challenging the reduction in force, altogether, the 23 agencies shrunk by a total of more than 134,000 employees, or about 6% of their total workforce from January through June 2025. However, during that same time period, those agencies brought on nearly 66,000 new hires, or roughly 3%, for a total reduction of about 3%. As of June, according to the office, the federal government still employed more than 2.2 million people.
That’s still too many. Keep cutting until NoVa is practically emptied out and Virginia is red again.
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Will the Real Tom Cruise Please Star in This Picture?
MAYBE THE WONDER IS THAT THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN MORE OFTEN: American Airlines 737 plane found with apparent bullet hole after flight from Miami to Colombia.
FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: FBI Raids Los Angeles Schools Superintendent, Reported Illegal Alien.
February 25, 2026
“THERE’S NOTHING MORE PATHETIC THAN AN AGING HIPSTER,” AS DR. EVIL ONCE SAID: Here’s Why U2, Springsteen Joined Anti-ICE ‘Resistance.’ “One look at recent Legacy Media outlets should reveal part of the answer. The rockers are generating endless headlines across the digital landscape.”
ALMOST HUMAN: Boozy chimps fail urine test, confirm hotly debated theory.
As previously reported, in 2014, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that the human attraction to alcohol goes back about 18 million years, to the origin of the great apes, and that social communication and sharing food evolved to better identify the presence of fruit from a distance. At the time, skeptical scientists insisted that this was unlikely because chimpanzees and other primates just don’t eat fermented fruit or nectar.
But reports of primates doing just that have grown over the ensuing two decades. Earlier this year, we reported that researchers had caught wild chimpanzees on camera engaging in what appears to be sharing fermented African breadfruit with measurable alcoholic content. That observational data was the first evidence of the sharing of alcoholic foods among nonhuman great apes in the wild. The authors measured the alcohol content of the fruit with a handy portable breathalyzer and found almost all of the fallen fruit (90 percent) contained some ethanol, with the ripest containing the highest levels—the equivalent of 0.61 percent ABV (alcohol by volume).
And last September, Dudley co-authored a paper reporting the first measurements of the ethanol content of fruits favored by chimps in the Ivory Coast and Uganda, finding that chimps consume 14 grams of alcohol per day, the equivalent of a standard alcoholic drink in the US. After adjusting for the chimps’ lower body mass, the authors concluded the chimps are consuming nearly two drinks per day.
Drink up! It’s an evolutionary necessity or something.
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is There Such a Thing As Nazi Milk?
VDH: The Graveyard of Destructive Ideas.
There is usually a multi-step process on the road to these self-destructive fits of society-wide insanity.
The suicidal impulse so often begins with left-leaning researchers in elite universities (i.e., the tenured in search of a novel, grant-getting theory). They begin insisting that a new existential threat requires immediate government intervention, novel legislation, ample funding, and public awareness of the impending danger.
So out of nowhere, the public is warned that the scorching planet will be inundated by rising seas in a mere decade. Or that millions of transgender youth are our next civil rights frontier, given that they suffer in silence without political advocacy, new laws, programs, and the chance for “life-saving,” powerful hormonal treatments and radical sex-reassignment surgeries. Indeed, the travel time from an outlandish idea by the faculty lounge to liberal status quo is a mere few years.
Next, the media, hand-in-glove with academia, springs into action to persuade the skeptical public to “follow the science” and “trust the experts.” It castigates any doubters as cranks or “conspiracy theorists” who spread “disinformation” and “misinformation”; or as racists, nativists, sexists, homophobes, and transphobes who must be silenced.
Hollywood and sports celebrities often piggyback on the frenzy, hijacking awards ceremonies and pre-game national anthems to out-virtue-signal each other, warning the public that they must adapt and change—or else!
Read the whole thing — and it sure is nice to see VDH having recovered so well.
LEFTIES AREN’T JUST MISERABLE; THEY INSIST ON INFLICTING IT ON OTHERS: Team USA Won Gold. The Athletic Found a Way to Complain.
SKYNET SMILES: Lockheed test-flies F-35 with artificial intelligence to quickly ID unknown contacts.
“The successful demonstration … marks the first time a tactical AI model has been used in flight to generate an independent Combat ID on the pilot’s display,” the company said in its release.
The Lockheed release was sparse on details of how the AI works, but it said that during a test at Nellis Air Force base in Nevada, “a Lockheed Martin-built and trained AI/machine learning model resolved ID ambiguities among emitters, improving situational awareness and reducing pilot decision making latency.” In a military context, “emitters” typically refers to radio-frequency emissions from communications systems and radars, as opposed to infrared or optical sensing.
The AI identification algorithm was compact enough to run on the F-35’s onboard computers. Then, back on the ground, Lockheed said engineers “used an automated tool to label new emitters, retrain the AI model to learn the new emitter class within minutes, and reload the updated model for the next flight, all in the same mission planning cycle.”
Just keep the human pilot in the loop, OK?
BREAKING: Thune Says He’ll Force a SAVE Act Vote.
Somebody must have looked at the post-SOTU polls.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: LA Careens From Cruelty to ‘Environy’ Against Palisades Fire Victims With This Latest Move.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Anti-Gunners’ Latest PLCAA Workaround: Blue States Enacting Onerous ‘Firearm Industry Responsibility’ Laws.
Anti-gun activists think they have figured out a way around the Second Amendment, democratic accountability, and the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to impose a limitless raft of gun control on the American people.
The strategy is to enact what civilian disarmament advocates term “firearm industry responsibility” laws in anti-gun states. These laws impose a duty on members of the firearms industry to institute “reasonable controls” over the sale and distribution of their products, on top of the mountains of explicit state and federal statutes and regulations they are tasked to comply with, lest they face ruinous civil liability.
The term “reasonable controls” is vague and ill-defined, resulting in the decidedly unreasonable circumstance where gun industry members can’t know how to comply with the law. These statutes empower anti-gun government officials to abuse the vague language in a manner that imposes ever-expanding restrictions on the industry and its customers, limited only by the officials’ imagination.
Moreover, this legislation impacts not just firearms dealers, manufacturers, and distributors as they would be understood under federal law, but includes any business involved in the stream of commerce for ammunition or any other firearm-related products.
The goal is to use the threat of devastating civil liability to force the firearms industry to restrict their rights and those of their customers by instituting gun controls that were not enacted (and often rejected) through the democratic process and may be found unconstitutional if imposed directly by government. The entire enterprise is a grotesque and cynical evasion of democratic accountability and constitutional review.
So far, 10 states have enacted versions of this legislation, with extremist gun control advocates in Virginia also seeking to enact a variant (HB21) at present.
Read the whole thing.
CHANGE? Freaking out about AI destroying jobs? Look here to see what’s really happening.
This job posting stood out to me. Anthropic is hiring an iOS developer to build mobile apps. I thought you could just vibe-code apps these days? Apparently not.
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, was asked about this recently. If this AI tool is writing most or all of Anthropic’s code these days, why is the company still hiring so many software developers?
“Someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, coordinate with other teams, decide what to build next,” Cherny replied on X. “Engineering is changing and great engineers are more important than ever.”
Let that sink in. Software development is probably the job that is most disrupted by AI. Models have gotten good at coding because it’s relatively easy to evaluate good versus bad outputs. That’s because the code either works, or it doesn’t, when deployed. This creates clear yes/no signals that are really valuable for training and fine-tuning new AI models.
So if Anthropic is still hiring more than 100 software engineers, then other types of jobs that are less impacted by AI should probably endure as well.
Who knows?