NOW IMAGINE WHAT THE USE VOTE BY MAIL HAS OPENED ITSELF TO:  Spain is in shock. The opposition stunned. Spain, 2023, General Elections. The head of PSOE Argentina created a voting circuit with fake mail-in votes to rig the CERA vote. Audio leaks have surfaced. It’s extremely serious, pay attention. It calls into question Pedro Sánchez’s legitimacy for the past 3 years.

(And because X cancel is still not working, here’s the rest of the tweet:

WHO WAS SHE? Lorena Suárez, general secretary of PSOE in Argentina. The country with the most Spaniards abroad on the planet. She devised something criminal and immoral. Her audio has leaked. She talks about how she would have set up “a whole circuit of comrades who go out to collect votes.” A fake voting circuit. With other people’s passports. In Argentina… For Spain’s Elections. Total chaos. WHY WAS IT POSSIBLE? Because a year earlier, in 2022, PSOE eliminated the “requested vote.” Remember that. Since then, the ballot arrives automatically for Spaniards abroad, without them asking for it. And in 2021, PSOE had written in an official document that removing that control allowed them to “recover the lost political space.” They wrote it. They removed it. And in the next elections, the audio exposing them appeared and is going viral today. No known investigation into how many votes went through that circuit. Ten, a thousand, ten thousand, maybe more? No one knows, and no one will. Lorena has already been expelled. AND TODAY, IT ALL GETS WORSE The State Attorney’s Office has told the Supreme Court that it’s impossible to review the 170,000 files of new voters under the Grandchildren’s Law before the 2027 elections. You know. The Grandchildren’s Law. The ace up sanchismo’s sleeve to win by foul means. And they could rise to 2 million just in Argentina. Add in the Cuban dictatorship, Venezuela, Colombia… the chaos would be absolute. The question is… how many more circuits were there. How many will there be in 2027? And who’s going to check? If the State itself says it can’t keep up, no one can. And the fraud is served up on a platter. Everything is coming to light. But no one reacts. Spain is in a deep coma. We’re already 8,500 dissidents. YOU’RE MISSING: https://capitanbitcoin.net/comunidad The dissident manual arrives in your first email. Nothing else to do.)

IDEALLY BOTH THESE COMPANIES WOULD LOSE:  Texas jury hits Bambu Lab with $27.6M verdict in Stratasys patent fight — X1, P1, and A1 printers found to infringe prime tower and bed-leveling tech.

If we are forced to choose one or the other then Stratys delenda est. They are the very definition of everything that is wrong with the patent system. Invent something, use your government granted privileges to minimize the spread of the technology and dedicate your entire business model to ensuring it has as little impact as possible. Advancements in 3d printing technology are measured directly in stratys patent expirations. For example a few years ago when their heated chamber patent expired. In comparison the evil behavior of Bambu Labs is a rounding error.

THE OUTRAGE IS DESERVED:  Outrage is erupting after a 22-year-old who runs into BURNING BUILDINGS as a volunteer firefighter was told he isn’t qualified to be a paid firefighter… …because he was HOMESCHOOLED. Then the city changed the job posting to cover it up. His name is Andrew Coates. He’s 22 years old, in Nebraska. Right now, today, he runs into burning buildings as a volunteer firefighter for Cedar Bluffs Fire. He is a state-licensed EMT. He is doing the job. For free. All he wanted was to get PAID to do it. In his words: “Make a career out of it would be the goal. To get paid to do what you love.”

AND I FOUND AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT, SINCE X-CANCEL IS STILL DOWN:  Neb. volunteer firefighter’s homeschool diploma rejected when applying for career firefighter position. Volunteer Firefighter/EMT Andrew Coates is challenging Fremont’s decision to reject his firefighter application because his homeschool diploma did not come from an accredited high school.

HATTIP TO THE INIMITABLE KIM DU TOIT, FOR THE LINK:  Tough Love For Blue Cities?

Should we let the blue cities experience the total collapse their filthy love for communism has earned them?

I HATE TO REVISIT  THE CLANCY THING AGAIN, BUT OTHER WOMEN ARE DRIVING THEMSELVES TRULY CRAZY IN ANOTHER WAY:  The Tree of Knowledge.

Or, if you prefer: the mommy blogs and books can be and often are a blight upon the land.

WORSE THAN MERE BIRTH TOURISM:  Meet the US Army vet running a California baby factory for Chinese nationals to have American kids. 

GREAT MOMENTS IN SCHADENFREUDE: CNN Mood ‘Like a Funeral’ as Paramount’s Warner Bros. Win Casts New Haze on Next Steps.

A new corporate parent, Paramount Skydance is set to take the reins of CNN in October, and with that change of control could come entirely new goals — and means of executing them.

Even Mark Thompson, chairman and CEO of CNN, seemed to not know much about next steps. “Over the coming days you’ll hear much more about what this means for CNN, including the date of the close,” he told staffers Monday.

The mood at CNN is “like a funeral,” says one person familiar with the operation.

CNN personnel have reason to worry. Paramount’s management of CBS News has been controversial, and has not been good for the business of the news unit. Changes made under Bari Weiss, installed last year as editor in chief, have brought unnecessary scrutiny to news reports, and anchors have made public entreaties on Instagram when people post notes suggesting that Weiss’ background as a digital entrepreneur and provocative opinion writer have muddied the newsgathering at the network. Tweaks made at “CBS Mornings” and “CBS Evening News” are still too nascent to make final judgement, but both shows continue to lag their rivals in the ratings, with the morning show suffering significant erosion. Weiss’ decision to overhaul “60 Minutes,” widely considered the jewel of CBS and of TV-news overall, has left the venerable newsmagazine open to criticism and backlash.

Gentlemen, this is the newsroom— how dare you expose us to scrutiny, criticism, and backlash! And note that this report is in Variety, the Hollywood trade paper, which has its own axes to grind.

And while CNN and Variety are melting down over this news, a big portion of the country is thinking:

UPDATE:

It’s the end of CNN as we know it. https://t.co/0uAscN0dGW pic.twitter.com/ntygUtcg9r

— Ajit Pai (@AjitPai) September 22, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy — and so are you.

GOOD: Samsung to invest up to $100 million in Oak Ridge nuclear plant. “Kairos broke ground on the Hermes 2 plant in April. It is the first power-producing Generation IV reactor to get a United States construction permit. In August, Kairos announced a deal with Google and the Tennessee Valley Authority as well as plans to train East Tennesseans to join the nuclear workforce.”

Faster, please.

I’M A BIG FAN OF ROCKET LAB, BUT THEY’RE NOWHERE NEAR BEING ABLE TO SCALE TO SPACEX’S DIMENSIONS: Rocket Lab Poised to Become “Only Viable Alternative” to SpaceX, Says Cantor Fitzgerald. Here, though, they’re talking about stock value.

HMM: The Non-Physical Trait Most Desired in a Romantic Partner.

SCIENCE UNSETTLED: A Long-Held Idea About Alzheimer’s Tau May Be Wrong.

JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM:

BREAKING: DHS releases a bullet-point list of what they say are false claims about the shooting of a Venezuelan illegal alien in Austin, TX. They say claims that he was legal and had a valid work permit are false.

Per DHS:

“CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) September 22, 2026

Read the whole thing, if only to marvel at the BS the left is happy to spew.

It’s the kind of inflammatory rhetoric almost certain to get even more people wounded or killed.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is your job giving you erectile dysfunction?

NOTE THIS IS A HEADLINE FROM TODAY. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2026: A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.

The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond. “It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.

Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.

The new policy was not received with love.

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

Well, now we know where perma-masked Taylor Lorenz hangs out these days. As for the rest of us:

Everything starts making a bit more sense when you realize that there’s a sizable contingent of the political Left that functionally lives on an entirely different planet from the rest of us https://t.co/CmHHPmQfnp

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) September 22, 2026

Speaking of which:

The Boston Globe has just published a shockingly sober article about the nonexistent genocide supposedly targeting the transgender community.

In it, they cite a report I coauthored showing that the murder rate is actually lower for trans-identifying people than the general… pic.twitter.com/MocnjrwDVh

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) September 22, 2026

IMPRESSIVE: 23 Weeks at No. 1: Ella Langley Just Made Music History.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Your Coffee Habit Could Actually Help Slow Aging.

NEWS I HOPE YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE: Lockdown or Active Shooter Drill? The Difference Matters.

GOOD LUCK, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU: Film Directors Are the New IP.

This is awesome for Hollywood. It’s a beckoning call to get viewers to engage with movies theatrically and the people who make them. There has never been a better time to be an auteur with an idea; people are coming to see them.

Imagine how much money the next Curry Barker movie is going to make.

Want more proof than just a feeling?

Look no further than the recent box office receipts.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey took over the cultural landscape and became the event film of the summer. Everyone went to see it, many of them in 70MM IMAX.

The trend isn’t isolated to Nolan. Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi event Disclosure Day was sold almost entirely on his name, legacy, and direct return to original sci-fi.

As I said above, Ryan Coogler’s original supernatural thriller Sinners proved that when a filmmaker builds an original vision, audiences will follow them anywhere.

We’re seeing trailers for a Shyamalan movie, and we know what that brings.

With name recognition like this and movies being sold on actors, it kind of feelsl like the ’90s again.

As Lynda Obst wrote in her 2013 book, Sleepless in Hollywood, in the 21 century, the industry replaced stars with franchises, to the point where there aren’t that many bankable stars left, and those who remain today are in their 60s or older. While stars are unreliable (see also: Gibson, Mel, Rourke, Mickey, and Sheen, Charlie), franchises such as James Bond, Star Wars, Star Trek, Batman, and the Marvel Universe seemed bulletproof. But then Hollywood went woke and began to hector its audiences rather than entertain them. Then came 2020, and Hollywood decided to close movie theaters and concentrate on streaming. Thus endless streaming series based on the aforementioned IP, culminating in slop such as She-Hulk, The Acolyte, and Starfleet Academy. And then superhero fatigue began to set in among audiences, at least until Spider-Man: Brand New Day made bank this year.

Roger L. Simon once wrote that Woody Allen was the only true auteur among American directors — the only filmmaker who both writes and directs his movies. Every other director needs writers to draft the blueprints of their projects.

But those directors considered “auteurs” in Hollywood’s past (such as Hitchcock, Kubrick, Coppola, and Welles) usually had the final cut on their movies. Unlike Spielberg and Nolan, which modern-day “auteurs” will be granted final cut by nervous studios?

HEH:

Most European security analysts can pick another job since they were totally wrong on how the Greenland crisis was solved. Gardening for example. https://t.co/3LtunL8Fk1

— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) September 22, 2026

ICYMI: Xi and You and a Guy Named Zhang.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, KIDS:

This Halloween scare the hell outta them little beggars pic.twitter.com/bXalVJ13SH

— The Waco Kid (@TheWacoKid8) September 22, 2026

DON’T DO THAT: Japan’s most trusted automakers are dealing with a surprising cluster of reliability issues right now, and nearly every one traces back to the same root cause: newer, more complex technology replacing simpler systems that used to just work.

YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY: Fishing charter catches Air Force attack drone off Florida coast.

Daniel Arsenault, the charter boat captain, told Task & Purpose that the four customers aboard were military search-and-rescue helicopter pilots. Arsenault said their first instinct was to check for anyone who might need help.

The charter captain said they radioed the Coast Guard from about 20 miles southeast of Pensacola Pass but were told the service was already occupied with an active search. That’s when they decided to bring the drone back with them.

Of course, that wasn’t the first thing they did.

Arsenault said they cast around the waterlogged drone, which had attracted smaller fish seeking cover in the open water, and caught mahi-mahi and tripletail before hauling it aboard.

The roughly 10-foot-long drone was partially submerged and filled with water, Arsenault said. Six men aboard the charter held it alongside the boat until the water drained before wrestling it aboard.

Arsenault said the military members aboard opened accessible panels looking for a phone number or other identifying information but found no markings indicating which service owned it. Once they returned to shore, the local sheriff’s department took possession of it. Later that day, Arsenault said someone from the military called him and asked for “their drone back.”

Exit quote: “Arsenault ranked the drone among the five most unusual things he’s recovered from the Gulf.”

Now I really want to know the other four.

THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE THE LIGHTBRINGER MEANT WELL:

Supercut of Obama's War on Whistleblowers:

James Risen: "I plan to spend the rest of my life fighting to undo damage done to press freedom in the United States by Barack Obama"

Brian Stelter: "The Obama also engaged in a war on whistleblowers. Prosecuting far more government… pic.twitter.com/uLRgpF3ZUs

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) September 21, 2026

“Yes, Obama attacked so many journalists that his scope included a ‘James Rosen’ and a ‘James Risen.'”