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:
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,