Another roundup
(1) I recommend this article by Data Republican on the state of the Iran operation. Very comprehensive.
(2) This sort-of answers a question I was wondering about earlier today, when I wrote about the fact that Israel was destroying some of Iran’s IRGC and Basij agents by using drones, after Iranians informed them where the agents were. My question was: how does Israel verify the identifications? I still don’t know how, but apparently they do verify the information:
The [Israeli] official said Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. According to the report, the information is first verified and vetted by Israeli authorities, and action is taken only after it is found to be accurate.
(3) There’s a lot of chatter online today about this judicial opinion:
Well, this is what happens when the Emperor Has No Clothes. pic.twitter.com/dWGhzlZKTF
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 13, 2026
Note that that was a dissent. The majority said it was perfectly okay to allow nude biological men into nude women-only spaces. In the intersectional hierarchy, declaring oneself trans trumps being a biological woman.
(4) DHS re-opening still hasn’t passed despite all the recent terrorist attacks:
A motion to proceed to a House-passed bill to reopen DHS failed Thursday when 46 Democrats voted against it. The lone person in favor of funding the department was Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA).
A few Democrats are starting to relent, however. Perhaps they’ve been hearing from irate constituents?
(5) Hegseth’s remarks on Khamenei Junior:
We know the new so called, not so Supreme Leader is wounded and likely disfigured. He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one, actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement. He called for unity. Apparently killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity.
Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why.
His father dead. He’s scared, he’s injured, he’s on the run, and he lacks legitimacy. It’s a mess for them.
Who’s in charge? Iran may not even know.
But since Iran’s system of repression and missile launching is somewhat decentralized, it can go on for a while without a Supreme Leader in sight.
Another area of major government failures recently? Tornado warnings!
Please see: https://www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com/2026/03/inadequate-warning-of-kankakee-tornado.html from Tuesday night.
and, https://balancedweather.substack.com/p/balancedwx-special-a-further-deep regarding unforecast and unwarned tornadoes a week ago today (Friday).
Our nation desperately needs a National Disaster Review Board modeled after the hugely successful NTSB. https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-us-disaster-review
Have a good weekend!
My question is where are these Drones coming from> To far to fly from Israel.
Drones in Iran?
Where did the drones come from that damaged quite a few Russian strategic bombers about a year ago? Ukraine brought them into Russia in modified trailers towed by trucks. A well planned penetration of Russian internal security.
Israel has demonstrated its skills outfoxing the mullah’s internal security. Drones nowadays are small and concealable. Iran has no or limited control of its airspace so getting drones into the Tehran region may not be that difficult. (Speculating.)
I have no sources unlike, IrishOtter49. 🙂
I am less interesting in what Iranians are communicating, and more interested in how, especially with the jammers apparently still operating. And then there are the reports of voice broadcasting of numbers … I have my suspicions. I wonder what band the broadcasts are on? Possibly laser communications? By wire? Some day we will know.
About drones, my guess is that they are carried and controlled by loitering aircraft.
Chuck; SHIREHOME:
See this:
Astounding, if true.
Sims in the sauna is a liberal state of equivocation as society transitions to be political congruent and inane.
there is certainly a degree of dark humour to this strange tale some cross of Python’s Black Knight, ‘its just a flesh wound’ and the Princess Bride Vizzinis ‘inconceivable’ (of course as Inigo montoya might have pointed out this might fall under ‘failure of imagination’ as the usual suspects practice the notions of insanity’ ‘doing the same things over and over again expecting a different result’
the young Ayatollah, who apparently was not well regarded by his father, despite his service in the IRGC and the Basij,
which still tinges this story with darkness,
in this capacity he was somewhat responsible in the grisley fate of Neda Sultan along with countless others,
which makes him more like Chris Sarandon’s Prince Grint,
as to the means, it has been bandied about that Elon lent some of his starlinks to the project at hand,
@Chuck,
The article below takes a stab at explaining what we can surmise about the numbers station in question. Opinions are varied about who’s operating it and why but it does seem to originate in Western or Central Europe, adapts to jamming (likely Iranian) and mimics Cold War intel services tradecraft. Without the appropriate matching pad the message is un-crackable, Chances are we’re unlikely to know until long after operations are done and books are written.
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/the-signal-you-cant-decode-irans
@neo
I think I saw a photo of an aircraft that carried drones, two pods under the wings, one with drones, the other a controller. I expect the controller has most of the intelligence, and can download what is needed to the drones. But I am just guessing here. We will see.
Thanks Neo and Chuck.
So our US Mr. Magoos, aka voters, in their millions hate the idea of “boots on the ground” in Iran. Which is another sign of America’s decline.
(6) When are schools — and parents — going to get serious about security?
Spring is an “exurb” of Houston. I’ve been there often in the past.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/breaking-armed-muslim-wearing-military-gear-arrested-after/
Neo wrote: “In the intersectional hierarchy, declaring oneself trans trumps being a biological woman.”
That is the most stunning betrayal of the women’s movement I have ever seen. It takes a very high level of politically correct thinking to give men in women’s clothes a more important place in the social hierarchy than women. Demented.
Re: getting drones that deep into Iran, and I’m sure this isn’t exactly correct and maybe not even mostly correct, but….
Last June I recall reading something along the lines of Israeli forces smuggling in pieces, and then assembling, a drone launching platform that they activated remotely. It’s primary purpose was to find and knock out Iranian anti-aircraft missile batteries. Which is in part why they faced so little resistance.
DataRepublican is a national treasure. If anyone can save us from the hordes of liberal maniacs and terrorists, it’s people like her that call out the fraud and abuse and bring irrefutable documentation.
An important distinction is left out of most reports of the Olympus Spa court case. The spa will allow transgender women who have had gender confirming surgery (that is, have had their male genitalia surgically removed).
Hence, the decision is not really transgender women over biological women in some post-modern intersectional stack. Rather, it is bare misogyny by the judges. (And is why the dissent uses the phrase “swinging dicks” to distinguish transgender women who have made the great effort to appear as a female from those who have not.)
Yukon:
I was very careful to write, “In the intersectional hierarchy, declaring oneself trans trumps being a biological woman.” Note the word declaring. The physically intact biological men who declare themselves to be trans women (or simply women when they are no such thing), are the ones we’re talking about.
#6.
Everything is going to plan:
“Moody’s shifts NYC economic outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’”—
https://www.jns.org/moodys-shifts-nyc-economic-outlook-from-stable-to-negative/
(Losing Venezuela and Cuba—and possibly Iran—but gaining NYC, Chicago, LA, Portland, Austin and Seattle, etc., should probably be seen as a net POSITIVE by the usual suspects…)
Related:
“Extreme Mamdani estate tax proposal goes right after New York’s middle class families”—
https://nypost.com/2026/03/13/us-news/extreme-mamdani-estate-tax-proposal-goes-right-after-new-yorks-middle-class-families/
+ Bonus…
“Zohran Mamdani and radical mayors of five other embattled Dem cities plot lefty super group”—
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/zohran-mamdani-and-radical-mayors-of-five-other-embattled-dem-cities-plot-lefty-super-group/
Barry Meislin:
Funny thing – I literally had just finished a post discussing those last two articles, before I ever saw your comment. Here’s the post.
Imagine that…
Guess Madmani has a talent for bringing people together…
(BTW, kinky link, I think…)
@ Neo > ” I literally had just finished a post discussing those last two articles, before I ever saw your comment. Here’s the post.”
Broken link, but I found the post anyway today.
Israel has fantastic on the ground real-time information in Lebanon and Iran. What makes me wonder is why they failed so miserably on October 7, 2023 with Hamas/Gaza. The answerer to my own question is that they were wedded to “the concept” that being that Hamas was more interested in making money rather than destroying Israel and did not want a wart at that time.
‘failure of imagination’ is what can chalk it up to, that was the excuse for september 11th, but as with the latter, there were indication, (from lieberman, the Moldavian import, who had been foreign minister, much of the training had been conducted in a relatively denied area, which was lebanon, which for obvious reasons the Israelis have been unwilling to encroach on until now, on balance we have as well cooperating only against mugniyeh, in 2008,
the story of how we failed to stop the plots, suggests some degree of bureacratic interference,
it does look like a pincer movement from the high chair, just look at norfolk, a navy town with a soros da, (mark steyn darkly mused on that point, particularly the ethnicity of the da,)https://www.steynonline.com/16079/the-ground-we-surrendered
nashville we know, from their disastrous handling of the snow storm,
after the whole bogus incident with the Koran, in 2005, Lileks darkly muttered ‘who won the war’ some 20 years later, I can’t say for certain it was us
Otherwise known as the “Biden” “administration”.
(IOW, it wouldn’t have happened had Trump been in the Oval Office.)
data republican dinged some jack wagon, Ryan Evans,* who doxxed Cynical Publius, on blue scream, as I like to call it, because he didn’t like the criticism of the War College, that was the pretext anyways,
*he is the one behind War on the Rocks,
I was referring to the failure to support the Northern Alliance against UBl in the lead up tot he embassy bombings,
the failure to target him at the falconry camp, etc,
not to mention the deal with the two hijackers who were living in San Diegeo under their own name, seekingcounsel from Awlaki,
who had been in contact with home as far back as 2000
but yes with the likes of Malley and his confrere Blinken, the ones that Brennan seeded in the near east divison, like the one who flew the Fatah flag (McFadden)
Yes; but more concretely, “Biden”’s decision to totally reverse Trump’s M.E. policies, viz.:
– Resuming total financial, diplomatic—and moral—support to/for the PA.
– Resuming huge financial payments to the Mullahs—and the diplomatic and moral support that such payments entail/imply.
– Resuming pressure on Israel’s government to provide/restore “incentives” (e.g., job opportunities within Israel) to Palestinians so as to “resuscitate” the “Peace Process” that was completely “squelched” by Trump and Bibi, and thus give the Palestinians “hope” for the future.
…All of the above ESSENTIALLY meaning the very public withholding of support for Israel, since any doctrine—or claim—of “win-win” cannot exist where one party clearly insists on ultimately destroying the other…and plans, and acts, accordingly.
– Etc.