COULD ELON MAYBE RECONSIDER RETIRING FALCON 9 SO SOON?
Rocket Lab is raising the price of Neutron to $70 million per launch, up from $55 million; a sure sign of excessive demand from satellite operators right now. pic.twitter.com/RpuQ7QX3yU
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) November 9, 2026
Previously: How in the Actual Hell Can We Be Running Out of Space Rockets?
“THROUGHOUT HISTORY, POVERTY IS THE NORMAL CONDITION OF MAN. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as ‘bad luck.'” –ROBERT HEINLEIN.
The Left has begun to unleash a campaign of vengeance on @elonmusk. But did they even think this through?! Because it won’t end well for them.
Last Saturday, two chartered party buses, funded by a network of left-wing non-profits, rolled up right in front of Elon’s house. They… pic.twitter.com/zKfSd7g70t
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) November 9, 2026
NO WONDER THE LEFT HATES HEGSETH:
Just gonna leave this here to remind everyone of the mood of the force after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Anyone crying for impeachment now and didn’t back then is wildly hypocritical.
Wildly.👇 https://t.co/Wj0fiDiQYr
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) November 9, 2026
LIGHTNING DEAL: Bench1000 V2 Adjustable Weight Bench. #CommissionEarned
BOOK REVIEWS: Reviews of my new book “Why We Walk on Eggshells” are starting to come in. Here’s one of them. I will post others later.
DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE THE BEST STANDARDS BECAUSE YOU GET TWICE AS MANY: Cornell student paper blasted out names of alleged frat rapists — but scrubbed bylines of own writer accused of sex assaults.
Then-Ivy League student and Cornell Sun scribe Esat Braveboy was accused in a 2023 lawsuit of the alleged “drug-facilitated sexual assault” of multiple coeds.
Braveboy had already left the school by the time the suit was filed, failing to finish his undergrad degree amid the accusations.
But before he left, he had his byline on at least seven Sun stories, according to online archives and his own LinkedIn page.
Or at least he used to.
The bylines on the stories that used to bear Braveboy’s name now each read, “News Department.”
The stories written by Braveboy — who worked at the paper for more than a year, between September 2020 and December 2021, according to his LinkedIn — include a report covering a student assembly calling for Cornell campus cops to sever ties with the Ithaca Police Department.
Memory-holed.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Dave Chappelle joins the pack of lefty haters with a fetish for political violence.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
A reminder that if you're reading the NY Times for news, you're not reading a newspaper. You're reading an ideological, agenda-driven advocacy brief that doesn't give a damn about the facts. Sometimes its self-styled "reporters" let facts slip into articles, but the NY Times'… https://t.co/SxXpgLx3qu
— Adam Mossoff (@AdamMossoff) November 9, 2026
“Never forget that the paper fired the lead editor of its opinion section for publishing an op-ed by a U.S. Senator after its employees rose up in rebellion, but no one at the NY Times lost their job for publishing a manipulated propaganda photo on its frontpage in falsely telling its readers in a *news* article that Israel is causing a famine and genocide in Gaza.”
RACISM IS EVERYWHERE, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO LOOK: Using Its Own Voter ID Logic, California Democrats Have Made Smoothies the New ‘Jim Crow.’ “Starting in 2027, there will be a higher barrier to entry to buy protein powder, which my husband and I routinely have in our smoothies, than to vote in California. For the under-18 crowd, the items also may not include ‘creatine, green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia, or green coffee bean extract.’ ID must be shown.”
SHOCKING NEWS:
Wait… replacing all the masculine male characters with lgbtq people and “girlbosses” makes boys not want to read?
Who could’ve possibly seen this coming pic.twitter.com/a60S8bkFG8
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 9, 2026
LIES, DAMN LIES AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICS: IPPR’s £115bn: a cherry-picked number for a bad argument. IPPR claims skilled migrants will boost the public finances by £115bn. The figure has been built to show the biggest possible gain – and is then used to argue for settling everyone. Neither the number.
LACK OF LEADERSHIP IS AN IMPEDIMENT IN A LEADER: John Thune’s Push to Lead Senate Republicans Again Is Getting Bogged Down.
SO LONG AS DEMOCRAT-RUN SCHOOLS TEACH THE VIRTUES OF SOCIALISM REPUBLICANS WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN WHY SUCH POLICIES ARE ILL-CONCEIVED: Republicans Keep Screaming ‘Socialism.’ Ron DeSantis Says That’s Not Going to Cut It.
A DEM, LIE ABOUT MILITARY SERVICE? INCONCEIVABLE!! WES MOORE, RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, MARK KIRK, TOM HARKIN, AND TIM WALZ ARE EXCEPTIONS PROVING THE RULE: Maryland Dem. Governor Might Have Lied About His Military Service.
IF YOU THINK WE’VE GOT TROUBLES, CONSIDER: Any minute now, Europeans are going to go to the old barn and find grandad’s jackboots. Germany: Activists Replace Iconic Unity Flag at Reichstag With Palestinian Colors.
DRAWING THE WRONG CONCLUSIONS FROM A PROFOUNDLY FRAUDULENT ELECTION: Mullin Signals Openness to DACA Deal as Trump Faces GOP Backlash.
IT’S THE RUSSIAN WAY OF WAR: Granted, burying the enemy in a mountain of your own corpses worked better when Russia had a growing population. But cultural habits die hard. 450,000 Russians Dead In Ukraine?
JOURNALIST PROVES HERSELF IGNORANT. MUST BE TUESDAY: AG Blanche clashes with CNN anchor asking whether it’s his ‘job’ to defend the Trump admin.
THE LEFT DROPS ITS MASK AND REVEALS ITS HIDEOUS FACE: Evidence of Evil.
THEY’RE GOING TO BE A PROBLEM: China Finds its Back Yard Vibe. …keep your range rings on…
SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. GAMBLING? IN THIS HERE ESTABLISHMENT? 2020 History/Facts Sterling & Raffesperger provided false information to the J6 Committee when telling them there was no double scanned ballots and claiming that the hand count matched the machine count.
IT’S THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO, BUT I’M AFRAID IT MUST BE: Let’s Talk About Fraud.
OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.
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