When Britain tried to protect the Israeli ships, this is what happened to its vessels.

☕️ALPHA WOLF ☙ Thursday, September 18, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

What magical formula let Trump spring from most-hated to most-feted leader in less than seven months in office? Behold, a Royal reception like none in history. And much more.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/alpha-wolf-thursday-september-18

How to recognize silver from steel.

A silver object will effectively "stick" to an ice cube because silver's exceptional thermal conductivity allows it to rapidly transfer heat from its surroundings to the ice.

Did you know? 🎓

I saw this when I was writing The Wise of Heart (https://amzn.to/4poWVcF), my courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism. There is no public case for transgenderism that can withstand even mild criticism. I had to steelman my own, just to make the conflict in my novel appear credible.

"There is no leftist individual willing to enter the intellectual or philosophical gauntlet of debate and challenge a conservative audience to “come to the front of the line” and convince the audience their viewpoint.

"There is no person of leftist ideology capable of advocating their man-made construct against the natural laws that underpin the conservative worldview of a Charlie Kirk audience.  Because the only place their ideology can survive is in an arena without challenge."

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/09/18/panic-afoot-professional-marxists-panic-over-the-rise-of-decency-and-morality-following-charlie-kirk-murder/

Topographic Map of Ukraine
https://redd.it/1ne5bpo
@r_mapporn

American pilots of the Flying Tigers, Burma, WWII, c. 1942

"Poland refuses to reopen its border with Belarus, cutting China off from a €25B/year trade artery. Some 90% of China-EU rail freight moves through Poland, now frozen amid Zapad-2025 drills and a Russian drone incursion. Beijing asked Warsaw to restore the route (vital for platforms like Temu & Shein) but after 3 hours of talks, FM Sikorski said no. With sea routes slower and air transport up to 30% more expensive, Europe’s e-commerce supply chains risk serious disruption. #ChinaEconomy #EUEconomy

Photo: ResearchGate"

🔗 Kyrylo Shevchenko

If any of my kind-hearted subscribers feel bad about a few vocal libtards losing their jobs, here’s a reminder of what it looked like when the roles were reversed (you don’t have to imagine!)

Even a whiff of proximity to racism was enough to make someone a target

#BREAKING | The Pentagon finished the blueprint for Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense network but isn’t sharing details or costs yet.

Source: Bloomberg

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"Why, then, did the field cling so tightly to these labels?

"Enter Damon Knight and his fellow gatekeepers.

"As sci-fi grandmaster John C. Wright has pointed out, Knight waged open war against A.E. Van Vogt, the true father of Golden Age science fiction. When The World of Null-A hit, readers were electrified. Here was a writer who could marry breathless pulp storytelling with genuinely novel speculative frameworks. Van Vogt’s nonlinear plotting and dream logic enthralled fans … and threatened critics. Knight dismissed Van Vogt as incoherent. And through repetition, that smear stuck.

"By the time Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein were joking about being the “Big Three” in the 1970s, the fan consensus had ossified. Van Vogt was memory-holed. The Pulp Archivist has shown that the earliest “Big Three” actually did include Van Vogt alongside Heinlein and sometimes Asimov or Bradbury. But the critics decided that Serious™ science fiction required hard scientific rigor, and Van Vogt’s dreamlike plotting didn’t fit their mold.

"The hard/soft distinction became one more tool for the mandarins to elevate some authors while discarding others.

"But reality doesn’t go away just because some people try to ignore it.

"The deeper error is mistaking science fiction for a genre at all. It isn’t."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-173420061#:~:text=Why%2C%20then%2C%20did,all.%20It%20isn%E2%80%99t.

"Another passage displayed Masaryk’s stark reflections on society and education:

“If people are uneducated and foolish, there is not much that can be done. People are glad to be foolish — do not make it easy for them, and argue with them.”"
https://english.radio.cz/masaryks-last-words-envelope-opened-insights-a-nations-founding-president-8863213#:~:text=Another%20passage%20displayed,argue%20with%20them.%E2%80%9D

Alternatively, why aren't you playing lawn darts for wild boars?

This mysterious sealed envelope from 1937, contains the last words of founding father of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

Nobody knows what is inside, and the seal is set to expire on September 19, 2025.

Did you know? 🎓

"And what does all this tell an American of today? Quite a bit. First, that the revolutionary Left will never stop voluntarily. They cannot; to do so contradicts the basic premises of their world view, today as in 1789, and all the years in between, most of all that human perfectibility is achievable and that any price, especially a price paid by those who would deny others heaven on earth, is worth paying. Second, for the Left, whenever power is not handed to them, those who do hold power are held to be necessarily illegitimate, and any action to strip them of power justified. Third, they can be stopped, because in their nature their reach exceeds their grasp, but stopping them cannot be done with words, since to the Left, words are meaningless. It will always and ever, until their hold on the human imagination is broken forever, be only possible to stop them by force. This is our future, whether we like it or not. We can hope it will be through the current institutions of order, if those are not yet wholly subverted by the Left. If not, it will be by some other mechanism, as the Finns found to their sorrow. The time is not yet—it probably would have been, had Donald Trump beaten the margin of fraud, since our Left would have been certain to, and was preparing to, react in the same way as their ideological predecessors and comrades, the Finnish Left, did in 1918. Maybe we get a break for a while. Or maybe not."
https://theworthyhouse.com/2020/11/30/on-the-finnish-civil-war/#:~:text=And%20what%20does,Or%20maybe%20not.

"If all of this sounds suspect to you, then it is. We do not need to invoke outlandish conspiracy theories to question the official FBI narrative. There are all kinds of plausible explanations, but I can think of two:

"The FBI is just incompetent, and cannot get their story straight. This is plausible, given how ineffective Kash Patel and Don Bongino have proven to be.

"There is a conspiracy, involving rogue elements of the FBI, the Trump administration itself, or outside forces ."
https://redpillhistory.substack.com/p/are-they-lying-about-the-charlie#:~:text=If%20all%20of,or%20outside%20forces%20.

The Hatred for Competence

Competence and self-regard are triggers for low-status men

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-hatred-for-competence

☕️GONE FISHING ☙ Friday, September 19, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Trump's somehow done it again. He's roped the Democrats into advancing key conservative issues. That, and lots more, in the roundup.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/gone-fishing-friday-september-19

"The United States has allies and it has friends, but Israel is its only real partner." US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tells Zvika Klein at the JP Diplomatic Conference.