Monthly Archives: September 2026

Los Angeles: Dead Last In Housing Affordability

Posted on September 20, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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. Given all that spending, how does Los Angeles rank nationwide in housing affordability? Dead last. … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Democrats, Regulation, Texas, Welfare State | Tagged Austin, Boston, California, Clownfish TV, Democrats, Des Moines, Gavin Newsom, Hollywood, housing, Karen Bass, Los Angeles, Regulation, Texas, Welfare State, Zero Hedge | 5 Comments

F-15EX IIs: Not Your Father’s F-15

Posted on September 19, 2026 by Lawrence Person

The F-15 has been around so long that I built plastic models of it in my youth. But with the F-15EX IIs, Boeing (which merged with original manufacturer McDonnell Douglas in 1997) has updated the old dog to teach it … Continue reading →

Posted in Military, video | Tagged Air Force, aircraft, Boeing, F-15, McDonnell Douglas, Military, Rob Novotny, Sandboxx, technology, video | 7 Comments

LinkSwarm For September 18, 2026

Posted on September 18, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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 police get slapped down in two different … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Guns, Jihad, Media Watch, Military, Social Justice Warriors, Technology, Texas, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State | Tagged 2026 Texas Senate Race, A-50, Abdulrahman Ayman Alawad, ActBlue, Adam Cahn, AI, AI Policy Institute, Alex Saab, Alexander Berger, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Anthropic, Anton Grunis, Austin, Bryan Steil, California, California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA), California Partners Project, California State Protocol Foundation, campaign finance fraud, Cari Tuna, Caspian Sea, Center for AI Safety, Charles Gregory, China, Clayton E. Cramer, Coefficient Giving, Colin M. McDonald, Communism, Covington & Burling, Crime, CVS, Dachau, Daniel Lurie, Daniela Amodei, Danielle Pilar Clealand, Dario Amodei, data centers, Democrats, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, DHS, Director Blue, dogs, Donald Trump, Donetsk, drones, Dustin Moskovitz, Elon Musk, EmailGate, euthanasia, FBI, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, fraud, Fulshear, fundraising, Future of Life Institute, Gavin Newsom, Georgia, Golden Retrievers, Guns, Holden Karnofsky, Holly Hansen, Hong Kong, Horizon Fellowship, Horlivka, Iran, IRS, Jaan Tallinn, James Talarico, Jarod Koopman, Jason Elliott, Jayden Williams, Jeff Brown, Jennifer Combs, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jihad, Jim DeBoo, John Kennedy (LA), Kash Patel, Ken Paxton, Kenny Seymour, Kevin Gounaud, King of the Hill, Leslie H. Southwick, Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, LinkSwarm, Lisa Stone Pritzker, Louis Rossmann, Lyman, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), math, Max Tegmark, Medicare, Michael D. Anderson, Michael Krol, Michael Ramirez, Military, Minnesota, murder, National Fraud Detection Center (NFDC), National Review, naval drone, Netherlands, NFL, Nicolas Maduro, Not The Bee, Offices of Inspector General, Open Philanthropy, OpenAI, Peter Zeihan, police, QR Codes, Rebecca Prowda, Regina Wallace-Jones, restaurants, Robb R. Breeden, Roblox, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, San Diego, sanctions, Serednie, Seventh Amendment, Shelly Headen, Sky McAdams, Small Business Administration, Smith & Wesson, Social Justice Warriors, Steve Kawa, Suchomimus, Susie Tompkins Buell, Syzran, Taganrog, Taylor, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas City, Texas Majority PAC, Texas Scorecard, The Texan News, Tim Walz, Tolyatti, Tom Willis, Travis Kelce, Trinidad (Texas town), Ukraine, University of Texas, Venezuela, voting fraud, Welfare State, William Inboden, Winston Noles, Zach Goodlander, Zohran Mamdani, Zoox | 1 Comment

Murder Charges Dropped Because Travis County Missed Deadlines

Posted on September 17, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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. AUSTIN … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Crime, Democrats, Social Justice Warriors | Tagged Austin, Crime, Democrats, George Soros, Jose Garza, murder, Natalie Renee Pearce, Peter Perius, Social Justice Warriors, Travis County | 8 Comments

Soros-Backed DA Larry Krasner Going Down?

Posted on September 16, 2026 by Lawrence Person

The love of Soros-backed DAs for repeat offenders and other criminal scum is well-documented. Evidently Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s love of setting murderers free is so deep that he’s facing federal prosecution over lying about it. Robert Stacy McCain: On … Continue reading →

Posted in Crime, Democrats, Social Justice Warriors | Tagged Ace of Spades, Democrats, George Soros, Innocence Project, Larry Krasner, Matthew Stiegler, murder, Paul George, Paul S. Diamond, Robert Stacy McCain, Social Justice Warriors | 3 Comments

RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party

Posted on September 15, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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. But overall I think he’s done a good job, and he just dropped a banger of … Continue reading →

Posted in Democrats, Elections, Republicans, video | Tagged 2024 Presidential Race, 2026 Election, Cornel West, coronavirus, corruption, Dean Phillips, Democratic Party, Democrats, Department of Health and Human Services, Donald Trump, Elections, Fifth Amendment, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, fraud, Israel, Jihad, lockdown, Marianne Williamson, Republican National Convention, Republicans, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Seventh Amendment, Title IX, transexual, Trump Assassination Attempt, Trump Derangement Syndrome, video | 7 Comments

A Visa Restriction Too Far

Posted on September 14, 2026 by Lawrence Person

Regular BattleSwarm readers know I’ve become quite the immigration hawk. All illegal aliens should be deported, NGOs that helped carry out the illegal alien invasion should be investigated, disbanded and their members prosecuted, the cost of applying for a H-1B … Continue reading →

Posted in Border Control, Regulation | Tagged Border Controls, H-1B visa, immigration, Markwayne Mullin, Regulation | 18 Comments

Remembering Andrew Wimsatt: “The Coolest Dude Ever”

Posted on September 13, 2026 by Lawrence Person

When I originally posted about the random senseless murder of my friend Andrew Wimsatt, I did so out of a sense of obligation. He was a close friend, and I’m a writer with a blog, so if I wasn’t going … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Crime, Republicans, Texas | Tagged AI, Andrew Wimsatt, Austin, Crime, Dustin Burrows, Fox News, Greg Abbott, Howard Waldrop, humor, Iowahawk, Iryna Zarutska, Kat Timpf, Matt Walsh, music, Nancy Rommelmann, New York Post, Not The Bee, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Obituary, Reason, Slowdive, Texas Department of Transportation, The Simpsons, WOMAD | 5 Comments

Updates On The Murder Of Andrew Wimsatt

Posted on September 12, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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. Here’s the high level summary of corrections: In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Crime, Media Watch, Texas | Tagged Andrew Wimsatt, Austin, Benedict Ogbodiegwu, Crime, Media Watch, murder, Round Rock, Williamson County | 6 Comments

LinkSwarm For September 11, 2026

Posted on September 11, 2026 by Lawrence Person

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! More information about … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Border Control, Communism, Crime, Democrats, Elections, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Military, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Technology, Texas, Waste and Fraud, Welfare State | Tagged 2026 Election, 2026 Texas Senate Race, 37th Congressional District, 9/11 Attacks, Ace of Spades, AI, Alice Weidel, Alla Nowowiejski, Alternative for Germany, Anapa Airport, Applied Materials, Arizona, Babylon Bee, Brandon Waltens, Brian Krebs, Christianity, Cuba, Dagestan, Dallas, data security, Democratic Socialists of America, Department of Health and Human Services, dogs, Donald Trump, drones, Emiliano Martinez Perez, Encinal, feminism, feminists, Football, fraud, Friedrich Merz, fundraising, Gavin Newsom, gay, Germany, Gloria Steinem, Greg Abbott, hacking, Hakeem Jeffries, Hamtramck, Holly Hansen, Hollywood, Houthi, Illegal Aliens, immigration, J. D. Vance, James Talarico, Jamiel Altaheri, Janie Lopez, Jihad, John Cornyn, John Thune, Jovin Bayingana, Ken Paxton, Kronstadt, Kursk, La Salle County, Laredo, LinkSwarm, Maine, Medicaid, Mediterranean, Michigan, Military, movies, murder, music, Muslim, natural gas, Neptune missile, Not The Bee, Novorossiysk, Oziel Ochoa, Ozon, PAC, Preston Stewart, Republican National Convention, Republicans, Rick Beato, Rio Grande Valley, Rula Jebreal, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian War, Saratov, Saxony-Anhalt, Senate Leadership Fund, Sochi, Social Justice Warriors, South Korea, St. Petersburg (Russia), Su-24, Su-33, Su-35, Suchomimus, Super-PAC, technology, Texas, Texas Scorecard, transexual, Welfare State, Windows, Yamalo-Nenets, Yemen, YouTube, Zohran Mamdani | 3 Comments

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