Posted on 09/09/2026 2:28:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah
TODAY'S NEWS, September 8-9, 2026
HEADLINES: Courts juggle election issues; Ds tell Talarico to shut up; Trump will strip tax-free status from schools practicing DEI
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IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) Kegger Kavanaugh rejected MO’s appeal to use its new redistricting map favoring Rs, saying it must be put to a public referendum.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/us/politics/supreme-court-missouri-congressional-map.html
That forces me to revise downward my House precition to R 220. This seat still isn’t gone, but it’s no longer a lock. If I understand the legal rationale, this is pretty much what the courts said to VA as well. Then, just minutes after Kegger gave his decision, another fed judge in a different case said, “Nope, the first 7:1 map was ok.”
https://x.com/scotus_wire/status/2097445750913245264
I don’t know that anyone knows what’s going on here. Zen Master explains that Kegger struck down a state decision, while the federal judge for now has the final ruling until or unless he is specifically overruled by the Supes.
2) Faux News has five good reasons the DemoKKKrat Fascist Socialists will continue to move the party to the far, far, far, far left.https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-reasons-democrat-party-keep-making-hard-left-turn
3) WY looks like a great place to live, with Rs crushing it in voter registrations, since 2020 Rs +69,000 net.
https://x.com/Grassroots20244/status/2096735198029267145
4) Ruy Teixeira and his common-sense DemoKKKrat colleagues are back, pointing out that the new fascist DSA left is a cult-type religion. https://www.welcomestack.org/p/the-secular-religion-thats-eating
We also have word that the DemoKKKrat Terror Party’s national org is telling Talcumpowder Talarico to SHUT. UP.
https://x.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/2097504456866693386
Apparently the internals are terrible and Paxton now is favored. OF course, if you listen to this webcast, you’d know Paxton was always favored. I don’t do polls, but for those of you who do, the R has pulled ahead in the OR governor’s race
https://conservativebrief.com/republican-poll-democrat-104277/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=ProTrumpNews
and Michelle Tafoya is within 2 in her U.S. Senate race in MN. That margin means this race is a tie right now, as pollsters always overweight Ds in MN.https://wltreport.com/2026/09/08/minnesota-senate-poll-michele-tafoya-peggy-flanagan-two-points/
5) Yertle’s wife, Elaine Chao, held four different positions in the Communist Party in Chy-na while he was a senator.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/elaine-chao-held-chinese-communist-party-positions-during-her-time-in-cabinet-report-claims
Nahhh. No security issues there.
6) A crazed American Airlines passenger had to be duct-taped to his seat and the flight diverted after he caused such a ruckus. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/unhinged-passenger-duct-taped-flight-identified-fired-job
His seat mate, and the one he directed his anger at, was Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn who definitely is worth listening to.https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/seatmate-of-duct-taped-plane-passenger-reveals-what-sparked-meltdown/
7) The Supes sided with Republicans in a fight over their ads.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/supreme-court-republican-emergency-appeal-tv-ad-rates-midterms/73618639
8) The Trump administratino is moving to strip tax-exempt status from all schools teaching DEI racism. That went out with Reconstruction, there, ya little dicknipples.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-proposes-stripping-tax-exempt-status-schools-using-race-based-programs
9) The NM DemoKKKrat state legislator who ran around naked banging on hotel doors has resigned.
https://conservativebrief.com/embattled-democrat-104262/
IN AI NEWS
10) WV, which has been extremely friendly to data centers, just put out a paper showing how the dcs are making WV rich.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2097151704571515314
11) OpenAI’s ChatGPT-6 aced an extremely difficult 8-hour Korean college entrance test.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20260907/gpt-6-astra-aces-korean-college-entrance-exam
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
12) A senior immigration services guy was arrested in a green card pay-for-play scandal. He apparently got away with this for six years.https://www.newsweek.com/uscis-senior-official-arrested-selling-green-card-crackdown-12410881
13) The administration has fired 137 far left immigration judges.
https://x.com/MorseReport/status/2097373832780870086
14) You don’t get much more karma than this: an illegal fleeing ICE crashed into a car carrying the wife of a NJ DemoKKKrat mayor.https://heritagereview.com/new-jersey-republicans-target-sherrills-sanctuary-law-after-fleeing-illegal-immigrant-crashes-into-democratic-mayors-wife/
15) Marshals rescued 79 missing children.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/79-missing-children-recovered-in-ohio-based-operation-us-marshals-say-6084670
IN CULTURAL NEWS
16) The head of the Smithsonian will resign. Good. He was DEI through and through, as many of the exhibits show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/arts/design/smithsonian-secretary-lonnie-bunch-resigns.html
17) Also good. The TX Board of Education approved textbook changes that tie “radical Islam” to the 9/11 attacks. As it should be. Except they might want to mention that all Islam is radical.https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-education-board-approves-controversial-curriculum-changes-tying-radical-islam-9-11-attacks
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
18) “Trumponomics” triumphs in latest jobs report. Even the New York Slimes has to call the numbers “zesty.”https://x.com/UPTOWNGIRL2008/status/2097432666006020256
10) The Trump administration facilitated a loan that will restart an IA nuke plant.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy-and-environment/4716460/trump-closes-loan-restart-nuclear-power-plant-iowa/
20) The Department of Labor has suspended all of India-based Cognizant’s visa filings.
https://insiderwire.com/news/dol-suspends-nearly-all-of-india-based-cognizants-visa-filings
21) A Johns Hopkins team found a way to drastically reduce fabrication time for carbon-carbon composites.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/us-breakthrough-could-build-hypersonic-shields-rocket-parts-fraction-time
Here’s my little carbon-carbon story. Sometime around 1989-1990 I was doing contract work for the USAF on a then secret program called the “X-30/National Aerospace Plane” to create a single-stage-to-orbit jet that would takeoff and land like a regular jet. It would use hypersonic engines to reach Mach 25 in the atmosphere before tilting up. To do so required fantastic materials breakthroughs, esp. in carbon-carbon composites. I went to General Dynamics, one of the airframe makers, in Dallas and the guy I was interviewing said “hold out your hand.” He put about a 3” piece of Shuttle leading wing edge in my hand. It felt like an anvil. He then said, “Now try this.” Same exactly dimensions, same look but it was carbon-carbon. Light as a feather. So if we can get these kinds of materials happening fast and cheap? Who knows what’s possible?
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
22) Chy-na dumped $56 billion into its credit markets to prevent credit from drying up and to prevent the largest credit contraction in history.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/2097029662211788993
23) The Huns are learning you can’t keep the AfD Party down.
https://firstthings.com/why-the-afd-wins/
Gee, maybe because it’s really about the issues? The Party is just three seats short of an actual majority. German AfD leader Alice Weidel says Germany is broke, and can’t hide it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/afds-historic-win-shocks-german-political-establishment-merz-faces-two-more-election
24) There is a gigantic, sweeping anti-corruption effort going on in India right now with 8,000 investigations under way and the the arrest of over 1,100 people. It’s cybercurrency, human trafficking, drugs, and terror networks.https://x.com/TheDebriefing17/status/2097321357679706566
[Not mediocre, Tyranny!]
25) Mediocre Britain’s Home Office intends to resettle 3,500 migrants in small towns where locals will be outnumbered 10:1.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2246352/home-office-migrants-plans-piddington-village
Nah, they can’t keep aliens out. But they can sure arrest people for online speech they don’t like: 62,000 (!!!) in just five years.https://thelibertydaily.com/u-k-police-arrested-62199-people-online-speech/
26) Oops. The Antarctic ice sheet is growing. Once again, “Climate Change” hoaxsters hardest hit.
https://x.com/wattsupwiththat/status/2097490400894189878
[Leftist tyranny]
27) It’s bad enough they can’t stop an invasion of unarmed Moroccans, but the Spanish gubment wants to raise taxes on gas and oil even as they swelter. Morons isn’t a strong enough word.https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/the-cow-that-lays-golden-eggs
[Euroglobohomopedomuzzielovingtyrants!]
28) Inevitable: the Euros are coming for private bank deposits.https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/europes-von-der-leyen-wants-put-private-bank-deposits-under-state-directio
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
29) College football’s South Eastern Conference (SEC), a powerhouse, wants to kick out Louisiana State U for bringing back former pro players to play on its football team.
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-sec-asks-court-authority-kick-lsu-conference/
And here I thought in the SEC all the players got paid.
30) A third person has died at the Burning Man festival.
https://wltreport.com/2026/09/08/third-death-burning-man-attendee-hospital-transport/
31) After pleading guilty in the “Varsity Blues” FBI sting over fraudulent college emissions, actress Lori Laughlin and her husband are splitsville.
https://heritagereview.com/lori-loughlin-ends-nearly-30-year-marriage-to-mossimo-giannulli-with-divorce-filing/
32) Tampa Bay Bucanners’ QB Baker Mayfield signed a $165 million three year deal making him the third highest paid QB in the NFL.
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/nfl/article-16115787/baker-mayfield-tampa-bay-contract-extension.html
AND FINALLY . . .
33) A little bit of yardwork in Denmark has uncovered the largest trove of silver ever discovered there.
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/yard-work-reveals-largest-trove-of-viking-silver-ever-discovered-in-denmark/
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"Yertle’s wife, Elaine Chao, held four different positions in the Communist Party in Chy-na while he was a senator."
The DOJ should give her a choice. She can go to China and stay there, or face prison for being an unregistered lobbyist/agent for China.
You sure went to a lot of trouble aggregating news. Reading those was a trip! Lots of insanity going on. At least a lot of the perpetrators are getting caught now.
I was glad to see that a bunch of leftist immigration judges were fired. I didn’t do the aggregating, Larry Schweikart did, I get in my email, and I copied here and got the links.
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