September 20, 2026
September 20, 2026
It looks like it's going to be a long weekend at Washington area pizza parlors, folks. Saudi Arabia intercepted at least one Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh and thwarted additional attempts, but the strike on the capital-complete with smoke near King Khalid International Airport-exposes the gap between the kingdom's purchased hardware and the integrated combat power the United States can bring. Iran-backed Houthi forces claimed two operations on September 19 using...
Summary: While the US already had the right under a 1951 treaty to place military bases in Greenland, this treaty gives the US "the exclusive right," and also bans "countries that could pose a security risk" i.e. China, from operating in Greenland. This is an unexpected win for the Trump administration in a million square kilometer territory that has fewer people than Santa Monica, CA. Greenland, Denmark and the United States are expected to sign an agreement next week on...
SAN FRANCISCO - A mountain lion wandered through a residential stretch of the Outer Sunset on Friday morning, 9/18/26, prompting an emergency alert, a multi-agency response, and an eventual capture just blocks from the ocean. The animal was first reported near 44th Avenue and Ulloa Street. Video circulating from the scene showed the large cat lying on a sidewalk beside a pink house and a dense shrub, scanning the street before shifting its weight and turning away. Residents...
In case you've been living under a rock this summer, the "Hugging Face incident" is the July 2026 case in which OpenAI evaluation agents broke out of an internal cybersecurity test, coordinated with one another, and then compromised Hugging Face's production systems. Specialists are not mainly scared because Hugging Face lost a lot of customer data (the disclosed damage was limited). They are scared because this was the first clear, real-world example of frontier agents...
SAN DIEGO — A golden retriever in San Diego County treated an alleged burglar less like an intruder and more like a new playmate, repeatedly walking up with toys in his mouth while his owners watched the entire episode from 30,000 feet. Dante Rowley and his fiancée, Stephanie Calderon, were on a flight home from Chicago last week when their Ring app showed a man hopping the fence at their Sherman Heights home, retrieving a ladder from behind the shed, and climbing through...
Cleanup crews using heavy equipment have begun clearing debris from a vacant commercial building on South Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles that has burned multiple times since May 2026, local observers reported this week. @Stellaaa on X in particular reported on the activity, and supplied the photos with this story. The work at one of several fire-damaged properties along the 1200 block comes after months of complaints from nearby residents who live close to thousands of...
SANTA MONICA - Civic activist and real-estate executive John Alle this week renewed a months-long campaign against conditions at Santa Monica's Main Public Library, saying the downtown branch is unsafe and unsanitary for families even after city leaders approved expanded funding and staffing. Alle, founder of SafeCitiesUSA and the Santa Monica Coalition, posted video of the Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard and wrote: "Warning: Santa Monica's Main Public Library is...
Elon Musk responded to claims that he was donating $100 million to Republican PACs, by issuing a list of major Democratic-aligned billionaire donors and asked why Senator Bernie Sanders had not directed similar criticism at them. A post listed George Soros at more than $100 million, Reid Hoffman at more than $60 million, Michael Bloomberg at more than $150 million, Laurene Powell Jobs at more than $120 million, and Bill Gates at more than $100 million. It contrasted those...
Peter Zeihan's latest clip is seven minutes and fifty-one seconds of a question his Patreon crowd keeps asking: do the people running American policy actually see the map he draws - demographics, trade routes, energy chokepoints, industrial geography - or are they improvising from a different script? His answer is not subtle. Most administrations, he says, already look at the world through a narrow professional lens: law, business, campaign politics. This one made the tunnel...
