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Microsoft is in the news again, and if you’re familiar at all with that company, you know that means bad news.

Democrats deride “Great Replacement Theory” as a fantasy, but there’s an NGO that literally wants to replace native population decline with foreigners.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Throughout this year, Ukraine has successfully launched several small counterattacks that retook small amounts of Ukrainian territory from the Russian invaders, usually on the order of thirty or forty kilometers.

The Supreme Court green-lights verifying American citizenship for voting, fraud, fraud, and more fraud, Trump gets Greenland without having to buy it, Cruz looks at EPIC City terrorism ties, the Clancy holdout juror speaks, some horrifying child abuse cas…

We’ve been covering China’s “Ghost Cities” for over a decade here, vast, newly-built cities with sparse populations amidst empty condos and malls.

Don’t look now, but Germany’s “ruling” Christian Democratic Union party has not only lost another state election, but lost it so badly they didn’t even win a single seat.

One of the more difficult (and underappreciated) tasks in politics is recruiting candidates, especially in down-ballot races.

You would think Mexico would have enough crime problems of it’s own to deal with without meddling in American politics, but for some reason the Mexican government is funding a U.S. gun-grabbing group.

Los Angeles spends a lot of taxpayer money on affordable housing, $399,228,000 in state funding and $1,919,897,000 in federal money for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

The F-15 has been around so long that I built plastic models of it in my youth.

Lots of Democrat/Blue State fraud of varying types (campaign financing, voting, welfare state), hot marine-drone-on-marine-drone action, one of Maduro’s scumbags pleads guilty, the feds investigate Governor Hairgel and his henchmen, corrupt or power-hungry

In Travis County, the land of bonded-out murder suspects, a case recently resurfaced that had previously evaded my eye, one where a suspect managed to avoid murder charges through sheer sloth and incompetence from the Travis County DA’s office.

The love of Soros-backed DAs for repeat offenders and other criminal scum is well-documented.

I’ve mentioned before that I wasn’t a big RFK, Jr. fan when he endorsed Trump, and I was moderately skeptical of him running HHS.

Regular BattleSwarm readers know I’ve become quite the immigration hawk.

When I originally posted about the random senseless murder of my friend Andrew Wimsatt, I did so out of a sense of obligation.

In my original post on my friend Andrew Wimsatt’s murder, I was relying on early accounts of the crime, and thus said a few things that turned out to be wrong.

The 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, GOP midterm convention, Iran and Yemen both get spicy again, AfD shocks Germany, Ukraine’s longest drone strike yet, more welfare state fraud, more money for Paxton, It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!

Andrew Wimsatt, a friend for over thirty-five years, a regular member of the Saturday Dining Conspiracy (and the movie night afterwards) and an all-around standup guy, was murdered on Labor Day.

One of the most basic, fundamental differences between normal Americans and the left is that normies believe that welfare benefits should be strictly limited to American citizens.

Yesterday’s story featured a foreign scammer ripping off American taxpayers.

Another day, another story of someone using the welfare state to massively defraud the federal government.

ShoeOnHead grapples with the inexplicable Lindsay Clancy TikTok Cult, and comes to the same conclusion the rest of us have: They’re insane.

More specifically, what happens when you stand next to an atomic bomb when it goes off?

New York Times seems very upset we might win in Iran, the economy adds more jobs (or, as I call it in my house, Passover), ActBlue employees keep invoking the Fifth, the left still wants to trans your kids, a mistrial for Murder Mom, and the unwritten rul…

2026 is turning out to be a pretty strange year politically.

In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Texas Democrat senate candidate James Talarico is the socialist weasel we always thought he was.

One of those Texas stories that keep bubbling along, and which I have trouble mapping out the dimensions of, is the high voltage line to the Permian Basin story.