Wednesday Link Roundup - 30 September

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts us off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Bustednuckles has voting.
Don Surber has highlights of the week.

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.28.26

Da Tech Guy: The Question Nobody is Asking About the War in Ukraine
Don Surber: Midterms diplomacy

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 29 September 2026: Blockdrain Edition

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all its rogue AI activity. (Tech Crunch)
Because they are idiots.

EBL - The Get Out

An Albanian night club owner in LA wants a buy out...
Teresa Palmer as Sunny

Political Hat - News of the Week (September 27th, 2026)

Conservative talk-show host Steve Deace wrote earlier this week, “Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error

The Glibertarians - Tuesday Morning Links

Let them open their mouths. And they’ll tell you who they are every single time.
Thank God they’re doing this. Nobody would have ever known otherwise.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Weekend Cleanup

Misty Severi at JTN reports Hegseth announces Army National Guard has achieved its 2026 recruiting goal, "The Army reached its own recruiting goal for the current fiscal year in May, months before the Sept. 30 deadline.

Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 09.29.26

Victory Girls: Ellen “Elliot” Page Goes Topless for New York Magazine’s Men’s Style Issue
Watts Up With That: Repealing Power Plant Limits Is a Good Start

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America: The Lindsay Clancy case. A lesbian bar.
Conman Carney’s Canada: A U.S. invasion. The EU blunder. A pronunciation guide.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Full force of the law. The border.

Vlad Tepes - I guess just journaling the one sided war to destroy Western nations in every possible way at this point? Links 1 for Sept. 26, 2026

1. I wish Trump and Netanyahu would have spoken to the UN the way Javier Milei did
2. Personally, I have always wanted to know more about the Byzantine Empire.

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEWS

ITEM 6: Shooting News Weekly reported, “Illinois Wants Gun Makers to Pay the Costs of the Crime Its Dysfunctional Criminal Justice System Enables.”
But they get a discount if the woman is acquitted for post-partum depression.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 9/26/2026

Polish President Uncomfortable With Putin at G20 But Will Attend
Polish President Karol Nawrocki will attend the G20 summit in Miami despite disapproving of Russia’s invitation

Bacon Time!!!! - Sunday Linkange

Pirates Cove Oh Noes: Trump Threatens Entire US Healthcare System
Freedom Is Just Another Word.. .Saturday Memes…

Maggie's Farm - Monday morning links

Columbia professor wins award for book on ‘white paint’ being racist
Un-Gifted and Talented
More fake news

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 9/ 29 /26

“In March, explosives were detonated outside a Liège synagogue.”
Belgium’s Intelligence Agency: Iran Behind Synagogue Bombing, Arson Campaign

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America

80 Years a Hostage to the Anti-Progressives Doug Ross
EU tells countries to curb energy demand as gas prices face winter squeeze EuroNews

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 09-26-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Sunday Meme Drop 9-27-26 from Midwest Chick's Place, Fall funnies from bluebird of bitterness, and Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #4228 from 90 Miles from Tyranny.

He Suffered a Failure of the Victim-Selection Process

Missouri is not a good place for bad guys. St. Joseph man shot in groin after allegedly attempting to burglarize home - KQ2 | St. Joseph, Missouri News, Weather & Sports

A St. Joseph, Missouri, man is behind bars after he was shot in the groin for allegedly attempting to burglarize a home early Sunday morning.

He fled, but cops found him nearby and had him taken to a hospital for treatment before being sent to lockup.

St. Joseph, Missouri, is about a 50 mile drive north of Kansas City, Missouri. It is bordered on the west by the Missouri River.

So how would you respond to an intruder at 2:45 AM? (Hat tip to USA Carry)

School Admits Violating 4th Amendment Rights

From AmmoLand: School Officials Admit Search of Gun-Owning Student’s Truck Was Unconstitutional

A student legally owned a gun. He did not have that gun on school property. He did talk about the gun on school property. The school illegally searched his vehicle.

New Hampshire school officials have formally admitted that they violated former student Jack Harrington’s Fourth Amendment rights when they searched his pickup truck after learning that he lawfully owned a handgun.

The admission resolves Harrington v. Crawford, a federal lawsuit supported by the Second Amendment Foundation. In a stipulated declaratory judgment, Hillsboro-Deering School District Superintendent Jennifer Crawford and Hillsboro-Deering High School Principal James O’Rourke agreed that the April 24, 2025, search of Harrington’s truck and glove box was unconstitutional.

Click thru for the details, the admissions, why they thought it was a good idea to violate the 4th amendment, etc. (Hat tip to Jews Can Shoot)

Kentucky State Trooper Hayden Phillips

End of Watch. Fallen Kentucky State Police trooper arrives in Glasgow following procession from Louisville

According to KSP Commissioner Phillip Burnett, Phillips stopped a vehicle around 2 p.m. on I-65 in Warren County. He was assigned to KSP Post 3 in Bowling Green.

Officials said Emonnie Branch, 51, of Portland, Tennessee, was inside the vehicle. Police said Branch shot Phillips and fled the scene, triggering a statewide manhunt. Branch was taken into custody in Louisville. He was charged with murder of a first responder in connection with Phillips’ death.

Click thru for the details.

The man charged with killing KSP Trooper Hayden Phillips was on probation in Tennessee and had an active warrant out for violating it.

Emonnie Branch, 51, was supposed to be supervised.

He was supposed to be picked up.

Instead he was on I-65 with a gun, and a husband and… pic.twitter.com/Nwo4lzeswe

— Kentucky Girl (@Kentuckygirl1) September 29, 2026

Gypsy Nights

Craig Chaquico gets some grief over his association with Jefferson Starship, and Starship. Which I guess is fair, because a lot of that music from the end of that run isn't good. But he joined Jefferson Starship in the first year after Jefferson Airplane ended, when he was 21; it was probably financially rewarding. (Look up their gold and platinum records.) And he is an excellent guitar player.

Do I like all of his work? Of course not.

This song is "Gypsy Nights" by Craig Chaquico from his 1993 album Acoustic Highway. It was also included on the "best of album," Panorama: The Best Of Craig Chaquico from 2000.

The Chicago Tylenol Murders

A history lesson from 90 Miles From Tyranny. September 29, 1982: The Chicago Tylenol Murders Begin

A 12-year-old girl named Mary Kellerman dies in the suburbs of Chicago after taking an Extra-Strength Tylenol, becoming the first of six people in the area to soon turn up dead after taking that same medication. Investigators later found cyanide in the capsules.

No one was ever convicted of these crimes.

I have seen this reenacted on at least one procedural, cop show. Except Hollywood, in the times before MeToo and COVID, loved a happy ending, which meant the bad guy being brought to justice of some kind.

Click thru for more history.

Tuesday Links - 29 September

William Teach at Pirate's Cove is first with A Bunch Of Left Wacko Groups Launch “Day Of Action” To Keep Haitians In US

Hey, maybe if they spent their money on making Haiti a nice place (didn’t they say Haiti was a nice place?) Haitians could return home, right?

Campus Reform - Universities hire legions of H-1B workers, lawmakers advance legislation to rein in ‘visa scam’

As universities across the country continue to pursue hiring foreign labor via the H-1B program, Republican congressmen have advanced legislation seeking to crack down on the “H-1B visa scam.”

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 25 September 2026: Bleh Edition

People training OpenAI's AI have been fired for using AI. (404 Media)

Well, yes. Exactly.

Training AI on AI output rapidly leads to something called model collapse. It's the computer equivalent of drinking your own urine.

The Other McCain - Deranged Stalker Deborah Frisch Is Out of Prison, But for How Much Longer?

More than two decades have elapsed since Deborah Frisch, Ph.D., lost her position as a psychology instructor at the University of Arizona because of her harassment of “Protein Wisdom” blogger Jeff Goldstein.

Again from William Teach - State Which Can’t Even Build A Train Crows Over “Climate Week” Participation

Say, what’s the carbon footprint of all those Warmists flying across the country?

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: An Awful Road Trip

Meanwhile, for those of you more interested in college football, here’s the marble game standings.

My Kickstarter for The Hawk, the Fox, and the Princess is at 33% with two weeks to go!

Even in Austin, Texas, Homeowners Are Armed

Austin is often described as San Francisco, Texas, but it is still Texas. South Austin homicide: Man shot by homeowner during burglary | FOX 7 Austin

Austin police responded to a report of a burglary at a home in the 200 block of Virtus Bend just before 4 a.m.

When officers arrived, they found 24-year-old Dmario Antonie Jones with gunshot wounds. EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Jones was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 a.m.

How would you respond to an uninvited guest at 4 o'clock in the morning?

A preliminary investigation determined that Jones entered the home and went into the bedroom. Jones was then shot by the homeowner while burglarizing the home.

The investigation is just beginning, and while I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that every homicide in Texas gets referred to a grand jury.

Still, self-defense is a human right.

Another Cop Caught Abusing Flock Cameras

And it looks like this might be the first of many in one department. NC police officer allegedly used Flock license plate cameras to track boyfriend's ex-wife - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham

The Mooresville Police Department was conducting an audit of its Flock license plate reader system when it discovered officer Elizabeth Snowman allegedly accessed the system 31 times for personal use, Mooresville Police Chief Ron Campurciani said.

"She accessed the computers, the LPR [license plate reader] cameras, to find information and track her boyfriend's ex-wife," Campurciani said at a news conference Wednesday.

The lack of security is amazing. The officer in question didn't need to be on duty to access the data. Still think you are in favor of Flock? People always say, "If you have nothing to hide..." What did the ex-wife have to hide? Just her constitutionally protected privacy. You have to be doing anything bad to have a stalker.

Mooresville, North Carolina, is roughly a 25 mile drive north of Charlotte.

Snowman, 36, was arrested and charged Wednesday with accessing computers, police said.

Welcome to the Panoptican.

Majority Supports Arming Teachers

When there is a mass shooting, the first thing people do is call for people with guns to come and deal with the situation. But the police are not there to start with, and will not arrive for some time. New Survey: Voters by a 51.4% to 35.7% Margin Support Armed Teachers, Parents with Children in K-12 Support by an Even Larger 57.3% to 30.2% Margin - Crime Prevention Research Center

The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on August 25th, 2026 (cross tabs available here) regarding general election voters’ views on allowing teachers to carry concealed handguns at schools. While voters overwhelmingly approve of the idea by a 51.4% to 35.7% margin, voters with children in K-12 schools are significantly more supportive by a 57.3% to 30.2% margin.

When seconds count, police are only minutes away. And that assumes that they won't hide outside, the way the geniuses did in Uvalde, Texas.

Only three demographic or political groups oppose armed teachers: Democrats (51.3% opposed to 35.7% supportive), liberals (48.9% to 35.1%), and those classified as “other race” (47.8% to 39.2%). Regionally, respondents in the East are essentially evenly divided, with opposition narrowly exceeding support, 42.8% to 42.3%.

Why Does ATF Want to Limit Legal Triggers?

From Shooting Weekly: SAF Wants to Know Why ATF Thinks Rare Breed’s Patent Litigation Is Any Of Its Business

Forced Rest Triggers (FRT) have been declared to be legal. The ATF hates that. The ATF told the court dealing with patent issues that they want to restrict FRT sales and development.

In a September 23 letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche, [The Second Amendment Foundation] asked DOJ to explain the factual and legal basis for ATF’s position, including why the agency claims an interest in limiting FRT distribution and why the federal government is inserting itself into private patent litigation in a way that could favor one marketplace participant over others.

Those questions matter because DOJ has already established the basic premise. ATF sees Rare Breed’s private patent litigation as useful to its own policy objectives. What SAF wants to know is why that should be ATF’s business in the first place.

Click thru for the rest of the details. (Hat tip to Instapundit.)

Mayday

I have to say that Tidal does a much better job of serving up music I like than Spotify ever did. YMMV, but Spotify had problems with my musical tastes, which, granted, are a bit bizarre. And to be fair, I'm not sure about this song. I don't hate it, but I'm not sure if it will be added to any of my playlists.

This song is "Mayday" by Three Days Grace from their 2025 album Λ𝖫𝖨𝖤𝖭Λ𝖳𝖨Ø𝖭.

Armed Self-Defense — South Africa Edition

You could also title this, "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." Pretoria homeowner shoots intruder after being stabbed in bedroom | Rekord

A 66-year-old Pretoria homeowner allegedly shot and wounded an intruder after being stabbed during an attempted house robbery in Garsfontein.

Garsfontein is a suburb of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.

When the homeowner questioned the suspect about what he was doing in the house, the intruder allegedly produced a knife and stabbed him in his upper left arm.

The homeowner managed to retrieve his firearm and fired five shots at the suspect.

Police had both taken to a local hospital. The would-be, bad guy remains in under guard.

The investigation is in early days.

Black Man Attacked Over Fender Bender

Attacked by a bunch of black people. I have little to say. Watch the video below. ‘None of That Was Justified’: Suspects Go on Apology Tour After Video Shows Them Brutally Attacking Black Elderly Man, But Sorry Isn’t Enough

Lance Jeffries, a retired truck driver, rear-ended another vehicle Saturday in Jennings, according to St. Louis County police. Jeffries reportedly got out of his vehicle to check on the people involved in the crash when several people from the other vehicle confronted him.

No they did not "confront" him. They attacked him. Even the few media outlets that are covering this, are sugarcoating the incident.

The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Davion Alfred, 30; Martinez Logan, 25; Tamara Logan, 48; and Mary Moore, 26, with third-degree assault, second-degree robbery and second-degree burglary charges on Thursday.

According to probable cause statements, Alfred first punched the victim, causing him to fall. Alfred and the three others then “repeatedly punched, kicked, stomped, and dragged” Jeffries.

This is The Officer Tatum video Black Community IS SILENT After Black Elderly Man ATTACKED By THUGS

Cops or Bad Guys? It Can Be Hard to Tell Them Apart

I'm no longer shocked by how bad the bad cops can be. Two [Phoenix] officers under criminal investigation after victims describe violent traffic stop that wasn’t reported

Two Phoenix police officers are under criminal investigation after two people reported being beaten, tased, and held at gunpoint during a traffic stop that victims say was never documented — and that police records show no agency reported conducting.

This incident was from August, but I only just became aware of it. The article above only describes the incident, it does not name the officers in question. That information became available at the beginning of September. Phoenix police officers plead not guilty after violent 'off the books' stop

Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez Jr. are the two former cops. Apparently the officers were put on administrative leave, but then the news broke of who they were, and they were arrested, and the chief of police fired them.

They are facing a long list of felony charges including aggravated assault, kidnapping, and tampering with evidence.

The hat tip goes to Liberty Doll and her video Cops Kidnapped, Beat Victims During Unreported Traffic Stop

So, here we are with another episode of Bad Cop Bad Cop. What you going to do when they handcuff you?

The video is about 18 and a half minutes long.

Journalist Who Said Trump Would Increase Crime Baffled

A liberal journalist (but I repeat myself) who said Trump's anti-crime initiative was all propaganda, and that it would probably make things worse, is unable to understand how things got so much better. Liberal journalist SHOCKED that DC crime has plummeted for some strange reason 🤔

Matthew Yglesias, a New York Times opinion writer, is shocked to discover the CVS near is home in DC has stopped locking the cabinets they installed during the Biden years. He can't understand how this came about, but it is a great improvement in his standard of living.

Over the past two years, D.C. has been thoroughly cleaned, with multiple restoration projects and law enforcement on the streets. The liberal media spent months wailing about this, even arguing that the deployment of the National Guard was akin to Hitler deploying S.S. troops to take over the capital.

Because they don't care about truth. They really don't care about crime, unless it impacts them, by making their trip to the drug store that much more inconvenient. They only care about Orange Man Bad.

pic.twitter.com/OPafiXT6ND

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 27, 2026

Click thru for the post on X that started this, though I expect it will be deleted, which is (I'm guessing) why Andy Ngo took that screenshot. Also several of the more spicy reactions to his complete lack of understanding of cause and effect.

Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas"

The Left hates County Music. Not just the music, but the fact that it is mostly wholesome in its message. From The Baltimore Sun: How Ella Langley’s ‘Choosin’ Texas’ became the longest-running No. 1 hit of all time.

Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” a simmering, midtempo, country-and-then-some heartbreak song released last October, is indisputably 2026’s biggest hit.

“Choosin’ Texas” is also the longest-running No. 1 hit in the U.S., having spent 23 weeks at the top spot on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, it was announced Tuesday.

That means the track has surpassed various records set by Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and most impressively, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Her holiday classic held the previous record, with 22 weeks at No. 1.

The article linked above does a pretty good job of analyzing the musicality, and the lyrics of the song. They do try to throw some shade at Langley for not being as well known as either Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey when their songs topped the charts, but Langley's career started in 2023, this is her first big hit, and most people don't know the names of bands, aside for a few monster groups like The Rolling Stones, and the Zoomers don't even know them.

The hat tip, indirectly, goes to Benny Johnson and his video PROOF Rap Is DEAD…Homeschool Christian Country Superstar Breaks ALL-TIME Chart Record at Number 1🔥🎸

In years 2020 through 2023 Rap was 34% of songs reaching the Billboard Top 10, while Country Music was 7%. In 2025 through 2026 Country Music is 27% of charting songs, and Rap is 17%. That is a cultural shift.

Johnson's video is 10 minutes long.

I featured "Choosin' Texas" a while back, when it first started pissing off the Left. You can find it at this link if you want to listen again.

Legal Self-Defense During May 2026

Crime Prevention Research Center's ongoing roundup of cases of justified self-defense. Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 28 Cases During May 2026

Cleveland, Ohio, on May 2nd, through Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on May 31st, CPRC has a roundup of the cases they could find.

Click thru for the list.

The Mystery of the Disappearing EV Grants

I can't even pretend to be shocked. From the New York Post: Exclusive | Less than 40% of EV school buses purchased with Biden-era EPA grants have been delivered

Less than 40% of electric school buses purchased under a multibillion-dollar Biden-era program have been delivered, new statistics released by the EPA Thursday reveal.

The slow pace of deliveries, coupled with concerns over the reliability of the EV buses, have prompted many school districts to pull out of the $5 billion “Clean School Bus Program,” for which some $2.7 billion in taxpayer funds has already been doled out — and almost exclusively on electric buses versus other alternative fuel vehicles.

It doesn't help, that a major manufacturer, Lion Electric, went bankrupt in early 2025, canceling the warranties of any bus not sold to an entity in Quebec. Seems that they had more problems, more warranty claims, than they could afford. This left school districts with buses that they couldn't afford to repair, and couldn't get spare parts for anyway.

“Instead of following Congress’ directives to effectively provide safe and reliable transportation for American school kids, the Biden-Harris administration rushed money out the door without enough thought or oversight,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement.

“This carelessness resulted in 90% of the money going to ‘buy’ electric school buses; yet over 5 years later, there are very few tangible buses to show for it,” Zeldin continued. “In essence, American taxpayer dollars vanished into thin air, and our children were left without school buses.”

Hat tip to William Teach at Pirates Cove, and Surprise: Tons Of Biden Era Money For EV Buses Disappeared

This is government in a nutshell: rush the money out, it disappears into graft, waste, overspending, people’s pockets. It can pass through multiple NGOs, who all take their cut to pass it on, before finally being spent.

Here are a few stories on electric school buses that I've highlighted in the past.

• Electric Buses Versus Winter Weather
• EV Buses - A Safety Hazard
• Liberal, Wealthy Enclave Wastes Close to $200 Million on Electric Buses
• Canada Is Having Problems with Electric Buses