THE WNBA THESE DAYS LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PURPOSELY DESIGNED TO SERVE AS RIGHT-WING AGITPROP:

She bulldozed over Sophie Cunningham like a Mack truck, the refs gifted her with a foul on Sophie, the fan pointed at her and say "that was on you," and then she ran into the stands screaming at him like a toddler having a tantrum. Hope that helps https://t.co/wBKDV4YvIX

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 30, 2026

HMM: Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model. “While Gemini 4 has performed well on benchmarks the industry uses to gauge model efficacy, it does less well when employees actually put it to work, according to people with direct access to the effort. The model struggles to handle certain coding tasks, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss an internal matter.”

If true, I can’t say I’m surprised. I’m happy to use Grok, GPT, and Claude for their various strengths, but could never find a reason to use Gemini.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: 47 Democrats Refuse to Vote to Ban Insider Trading.

I DON’T KNOW WHY THIS IS SO HARD. PEOPLE OD ON FENTANYL ALL THE TIME AND JUST SLIP AWAY. BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD GO BACK TO HANGINGS OR THE FIRING SQUAD. ‘We have not been informed as to her condition.’ Christa Pike’s attorneys said her execution failed. Here’s what witnesses described seeing.

FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen."

Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them.

"The… pic.twitter.com/IUQxlzFNSr

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 30, 2026

More:

“The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch.”

“So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It’s all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year.”

“We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars.”

Bravo.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Three Brilliant Movie Adaptations Their Authors HATED.

SUBMISSION: Sen Kirsten Gillibrand Dons a Hijab at Bronx Mosque, Alongside Cleric Who Praises Hamas and Osama Bin Laden’s Mentor, in Under-the–Radar Visit: The mosque in ‘Little Yemen’ has multiple ties to Muslim extremists and Hamas supporters.

NBC-DFW BURIES THE LEDE: Man released on bond, accused in plot to attack Texas Capitol building, DPS says.

Unless they made it to seven paragraphs into the article, readers wouldn’t have spotted this detail:

Arrest documents further state that [40-year-old Benny Caldera] told his friend that he was angry at AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) and that “these people have to be exterminated.”

Via:

Second foiled antisemitic terrorist attack in one day https://t.co/Aa57EqaB9N

— Sunny (@sunnyright) October 1, 2026

Related:

I don’t know how anyone can keep seeing these stories and not realize how the current environment, including a lot of the conspiratorial rhetoric from the far-left and alt-right, is encouraging political violence. https://t.co/CjvuaB2WjT

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 1, 2026

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HEY, BIG SPENDER: South Korea to invest up to $200B in Alaska LNG pipeline, US power plants, Trump announces.

The investment also includes a natural gas plant in Texas and eight new nuclear power plants across the country, Trump said during remarks in the Oval Office.

Trump said the deal came as part of a trade agreement between South Korea and the U.S. in which the U.S. would lower the Asian country’s tariff rate to 15 percent in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.

Trump particularly touted the Alaska pipeline investment, known as Alaska LNG because it would transport liquefied natural gas, as allowing the U.S. to export more gas.

“The United States is already the largest natural gas producer and exporter in the world, and this pipeline will help us expand those exports even further,” he said.

Energy dominance, indeed.

HEROES IN THE SKY: ‘I Ran Toward the Cockpit’: An Exclusive Interview with the Israeli Dad Who Stopped a Hijacking.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX is ‘go’ to launch NASA’s Crew-13 astronaut mission to the ISS on Oct. 1: Launch is scheduled for 11:10 a.m. ET on Thursday.

GIRL CAN’T HELP IT:

they cannot pic.twitter.com/uuICcbU502

— crunchyrugger (@crunchyrugger) September 30, 2026

DANA LOESCH: Christa Pike Deserves Her Death Penalty: Slemmer’s family was transformed by this heinous crime but nothing in Pike’s behavior indicates that her time served has transformed her in any way.

WOW: Israeli Who Helped Take Down Hijacker Describes Harrowing Scene.

FROM SUMMER GRAYLING:  True Colours.

Jan Van Der Vaart is a legend. The focus of his magical Talent is pain, and he’s spent years in the military, then as a mercenary, making terrorists, cartels, and governments fear him. Finally, he carved out a safe haven for other Talents, and tried to retire… until one last job, cracking a black lab snatching Talents off the streets, went sideways. He’s left staggering down a rainy coastal highway, thumb out and hoping he’ll catch a lift before the kill team realizes they missed…

Aurelia Brinati is on the run. Having escaped five years of hell as an unwilling lab rat, she has a stolen car and a plan to hide from pursuers by taking passage on a cargo ship headed anywhere else in the world. When she picks up a stray sailor headed the same way, she rapidly discovers she’s out of her depths… and safe in the heart of the storm.

The entire world fears him… except her. Powers are gathering to recapture Aurelia, but they’d best beware. Jan and his friends will do whatever it takes to keep her safe… whether it’s murder, mayhem, or last-minute shopping runs to find something called cream of tartar for her snickerdoodle cookies.

SUPER PLAUSIBLE: Britain Apologizes For Disrupting Whatever It Was Nice Muslim Men Were Doing.

EH. SO I SHOULD BLAME HIS CHILDHOOD? (NOT A FAN):  Dickens: His childhood made him.

SOMEONE GET THIS MAN SOME THORAZINE:  Attorney Claims There Is Zero Evidence Lindsay Clancy Murdered Her Children.

READING THIS IT’S IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO CONCLUDE A MINOR MIRACLE OCCURRED:  Breaking: attempted hijacking of FlyDubai flight to TLV thwarted.

LIKE ALL LEFTISTS, THEY DECIDED TO ELECT THEMSELVES A NEW PEOPLE:  Problem: Labour Is Deeply Unpopular For Importing Unassimilated Muslims. Solution: Import More Unassimilated Muslims.

TEN YEARS AGO:  “More And More Severe Storms”: When Can We Declare This Hypothesis To Be Definitively Falsified?

YES, IRELAND IS INCREASINGLY INSANE:  The Shame of Ireland.

STEALING PEOPLE’S WORK IS UNACCEPTABLE, WHETHER YOU USE AI TO ALTER IT, OR YOU ALTER IT YOURSELF:  Untouchable but real.

No, not all uses of AI are theft, anymore than your learning from published works, then writing your own is theft. BUT this case clearly is, and yes, it’s wrong. I have problems with the copyright law in the US because frankly my kids can make their own money and my grandkids, if and when, ditto. But knowing how long it takes for a career in the arts to pay at all I have to endorse some copyright so the creator (and his/her long suffering spouse) get some compensation for the years of nothing in the dark. Stealing people’s IP outright is wrong. Just wrong. Even when you don’t falsify that person’s pov.

YEAH. NO PAUSES:  Now let’s talk about “the pause” Trust me bro we don’t want to squelch AI forever bro it would just be a couple years bro while we get alignment right bro. Wait, where have I heard this song before? Oh yeah. “Two weeks to flatten the curve.” The “pause” rhetoric is meant to create the institutional machinery for permanent suppression and shift the Overton window towards public acceptance of same. It’s a dishonest move from people pretending they’re willing to accept a future return to pre-“pause” liberty when that is exactly the opposite of what they intend. When s camel tries to get its nose into your tent, the right thing to do is kick it In the snoot. Hard.