Author Archive: Stephen Green

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Beto Talarico Was Outraged That Texas ‘Ignored God’s Messengers’ and Refused to Limit Gun Rights.

They rejected former U.S. Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke at the ballot box in 2018 when he ran against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on a platform that included strict gun control. National Democrat voters rejected him again in 2020 when he tried his hand at a White House bid. That campaign went so badly for him that he was forced to drop out before any primary election ballots were cast. Then he was crushed in the 2022 gubernatorial race against incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, with Texas voters again rejecting him by more than 10 points.

It turns out that yelling, “Hell yeah, we’re going to take your AR-15s,” from the debate stage isn’t a particularly effective way of winning over Texas voters.

Now, in 2026, Texas Democrats are once again running a candidate who proudly spouts the “ban modern sporting rifles” gun control mantra, hoping that maybe this time Texas gun owners will somehow vote differently.

Yeah, I have a hard time believing polls showing Beta-But-Weirder neck-and-neck with Paxton.

WHEN BEING “CONVENTIONALLY SEXY” MAKES SOMEONE NEARLY UNIQUE…:

…they’ll get rich, too.

But can America truly be great again without Old Milwaukee bringing back the Swedish Bikini Team?

TWANLOC:

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?

This is how you get more manufacturing.

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:

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:

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

I BELIEVE THE WORD FOR THAT IS SOCIOPATH:

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

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…:

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