SCHEDULED FOR NOON, EASTERN TIME: SpaceX Crew 5 mission set to lift off for International Space Station.

WHAT WE WERE PROMISED: Flying Cars, Routine Passenger Trips to Space Stations and Moon Bases.

What we got: Exploding Electric Bicycles.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU ATTEMPT TO RECHARGE A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY PACK THAT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY OR TOTALLY SUBMERGED IN WATER.

ATTEMPTING TO CHARGE A COMPROMISED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY PACK CAN RESULT IN A VERY DANGEROUS FIRE THAT GENERATES SIGNIFICANT HEAT, TOXIC GASSES AND IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

Please consult with your insurance company to see whether the eBike was covered by your homeowner’s policy.

Do not taunt happy fun bike.

MARK JUDGE: How the Hollywood Stasi Hypes Conservative ‘Violence’ and Downplays the Left’s ‘Days of Rage.’

TRANSMADNESS: A New York Father Is Fighting for His Daughter’s Body and Soul. “So the father is now facing the mother, the courts, and the state in trying to gain full custody and ensure that his daughter, now 11, grows up normally, without introducing chemicals into her body. He wants the girl to be able to express herself but to do so without drugs or surgery that will change her forever.”

DO TELL: Fed Economists: Inflation Eroding Most Americans’ Wage Gains: ‘The current time period is unparalleled in terms of the challenge employed workers face,’ says Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Related: Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

OKAY, THIS HAS OFFICIALLY BECOME A THING: 12 Federal Judges Join Boycott, Refuse To Hire Yale Students As Law Clerks.

The judges joining the boycott, all of whom requested anonymity in order to speak freely, cited a series of incidents where they say free speech has come under attack at Yale Law …

The law school’s ideological monoculture also poses a problem for vetting clerkship applicants, some judges said, because there are simply no professors whom they trust to recommend conservative clerks.

The feeder judge told the Free Beacon that he had long relied on Amy Chua, a left-leaning but heterodox Yale Law professor, for recommendations, but that the law school has made it a “speech and thought crime” for students to associate with her.

This could start to actually have an effect, potentially pushing Yale Law out of its #1 slot in the rankings. Dean Heather Gerken has to be worried about how that will affect her deanship.

GERMAPHOBE HOWARD STERN LEAVES HIS ‘APOCALYPSE BUNKER’ FOR FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS FOR A-LIST DINNER WITH JENNIFER ANISTON, JIMMY KIMMEL AND JON HAMM; admits he’s ‘been afraid of catching COVID:’

Stern left his house for the first time in two years to dine with other A-listers, including Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, despite admitting it was ‘too much’ for the germaphobe.

Stern, 68, finally left his $20million ‘apocalypse bunker’ in Southampton to enjoy an Israeli meal at Laser Wolf in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday night after he and his wife Beth were invited out by late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, 54.

‘I really had an exhausting weekend, emotionally, physically,’ Stern said on his radio show on Monday. ‘For the first time in two years I ventured out of the house. It was too much for me. It was too much. I haven’t been out in two years.’

Despite being in great company – rubbing elbows with the likes of Justin Theroux and Jon Hamm – the radio host said he was ‘in a panic’ the whole time.

‘I said to my wife: “I don’t want to go, I’m in a panic, I don’t want to get COVID.”

‘I know our president has told us the pandemic is over and everyone is walking around without masks…I still just don’t want to get COVID.’

Flashback: What Happened to Howard Stern?

Listening to this balderdash, you’d have thought that Clinton had led a saintly life, that she had been constantly set upon by jealous, corrupt inferiors, and that her career had been a spotless series of legislative and diplomatic triumphs. Buying into the notion of Hillary as a lifelong victim of the patriarchy, Stern seemed to be out to make up, in one interview, for every time he’d ever gotten a stripper to remove her top. One illuminating moment came when Stern praised Howard Zinn, the Communist author of A People’s History of the United States, a shoddy work of propaganda that has, alas, become a perennial best-seller and college text. Every Stern fan knows that Howard’s not big on books, so if he’s actually read Zinn’s opus, it’s likely his chief source of information on American history—a scary thought.

It was a stunning listening experience. When Hillary blamed James Comey (along with “the Russians and Wikileaks”) for her election loss, Stern went along with her, even though Comey had done Hillary a service by choosing not to prosecute her for clear violations of the Espionage Act. When she mentioned her emails, Stern didn’t bring up her private server or her destruction of the emails with BleachBit but instead agreed readily with her baffling claim that the emails had been “misinterpret[ed]”; when she criticized Trump’s “trade battles” and tax breaks, said that Trump was in Putin’s “camp,” and accused Trump fans (and not Antifa) of committing acts of violence around the country—and when she even knocked the booming Trump economy—Stern nodded along. He made no mention of Fusion GPS, the Clinton Foundation, her contorted version of the Benghazi episode, her dubious story about coming under fire in Bosnia, or anything else remotely scandalous in her (or her husband’s) past. Both Hillary and Stern took Joe Biden’s side in the Ukraine controversy and agreed that Trump’s famous phone call with the Ukrainian president had amounted to an “abuse of power.”

The entire interview was a case of kowtowing on an epic scale. Howard Stern, who rose to fame, in considerable part, by zapping fraudulent politicians, had now given one of the most sycophantic interviews of all time to a woman regarded by many as the most duplicitous pol of our era. It was a terrible comedown for a guy who’d earned a reputation for fearless honesty.

As Stephen Kruiser wrote at the start of year: Howard Stern Is Now Your Grandmother. “I wasn’t a radio guy but there was a time in the early ’90s when I set my alarm to listen to Howard Stern. He was that good. He was crass. He was insightful. Most importantly — for me — he was funny. He was also beyond edgy. Now he’s a bitchy, housecoat-wearing granny.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Russia’s frontline in Ukraine ‘collapses’ as Kyiv hammers Putin’s forces into humiliating retreat: Zelensky’s troops sweep ’10 miles in four hours’ and liberate dozens of occupied towns – as NATO warns Kremlin ‘will test NUKES on the border to save face.’ “Pro-Russian military bloggers said their forces had retreated around 10 miles down the Dnipro River.”

DEAL OF THE DAY: Skechers Men’s Hoodless Hoodie. #CommissionEarned

FBI WHISTLEBLOWER EXPLAINS MOTIVE BEHIND LAS VEGAS SHOOTINGS: In the interview, Guandolo said, “when you look at what actually transpired and put it together from a counter-espionage attack and counter-espionage look, the probability that was an ISIS attack is well over 90%.”

But: “He said the Special Agent in Charge of the Las Vegas FBI field office ‘got angry and dismissed it, and when presented with the information, FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. dismissed it out of hand.'”

They wanted it to be white supremacists or Tea Partiers or something.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Former Northeastern University Staffer Is Charged With Staging Campus Explosion.

Jason Duhaime, 45 years old…was director of the Immersive Media Lab at Northeastern, but a university spokeswoman said Tuesday that he was no longer employed there.

Mr. Duhaime said Sept. 13 that he was injured when sharp objects blew out of a hard-sided plastic case as he opened it, but the next day officials said they were investigating whether he staged the incident and questioned whether there was any explosion at all.

The package had been accompanied by a rambling printed note that railed against virtual reality, the metaverse and Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a photograph included in a court filing, the typed letter warned that Northeastern’s virtual-reality lab had two months to take down its operations “or else!!!!!” It ended with the warning, “WE ARE WATCHING YOU.”

Forensic experts found a draft of that same letter on a computer in Mr. Duhaime’s Northeastern office, created just hours before the alleged explosion, according to an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent’s affidavit included in a court filing unsealed Tuesday.

More details at Boston’s CBS affiliate: Northeastern University employee staged bomb incident, faces federal charges, FBI says.

In an interview described in the affidavit, Duhaime allegedly told investigators, “As soon as I opened it up, all this energy and, like, these things come flying out. And I had a long sleeve shirt, and they flew up underneath, basically, and hit my arm. The case went up and then it came down.”

The evidence refuted Duhaime’s claims. According to the affidavit, investigators found the case in question was empty and did not show any signs it had been exposed to an “explosive discharge of any time or magnitude.”

“The Subject Case was empty. The inside and outside of the case did not bear any marks, dents, cracks, holes, or other signs that it had been exposed to a forceful or explosive discharge of any type or magnitude. Likewise, aside from several fold marks, the Letter was pristine. It bore no tears, holes, burn marks, or any other indication that it had been near any sort of forceful or explosive discharge,” the agent wrote in the affidavit.

The affidavit continued, “Duhaime raised his sleeves for the Northeastern officer, revealing several small, superficial marks or bruises on his lower forearms. Duhaime’s shirt, however, did not appear damaged.”

A school-owned laptop in Duhaime’s Northeastern office contained a file of the bomb threat letter, written hours before the incident, investigators said.

“Forensic analysis of one of the computers seized during a search of the office at Northeastern University revealed the word-for-word electronic copy of the letter stored in a backup folder. Metadata associated with this file reflected a created date and time of Sept. 13 at 2:57, roughly four hours prior to when he called 911 to report the explosion,” U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said.

“Throughout the course of our investigation, we believe he repeatedly lied to us about what happened inside the lab, he faked his injuries, and wrote a rambling letter directed at the lab threatening more violence,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta said.

Bonavolonta said Duhaime “wanted to be the victim,” but would not comment on a possible motive or ideology.

“In this case, we believe Mr. Duhaime wanted to be the victim, but instead victimized his entire community by instilling fear at college campuses in Massachusetts and beyond,” he said.

The FBI probably enjoyed the old school nature of a suspect allegedly lying to them after the past few years: Bombshell LA Times Report: FBI Misled Judge Who OK’d Warrant for Beverly Hills Seizure of $86 million.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR FAKE HATE CRIMES, HOW MANY HATE CRIMES WOULD WE HAVE? Ex employee charged with staging fake explosion at Boston’s Northeastern University.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: 91% of American CEOs preparing for a recession — a long one.

UNHEALTHY IN SO MANY WAYS: Diverse Fat Activist Gets Paid to Lie to Children About Nutrition for Corporate Profit.

FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY:  His Terrible Stall: A Science Fiction Lost Colony Adventure.

#CommissionEarned

JONATHAN ADLER: The Sackett Oral Argument and the Problem of Defining “Waters of the United States: The justices wrestled with the problem of identifying a clear, coherent, and administrable definition to constrain federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.”

If you can’t clearly define a federal power, then it should not exist until you can. One of the bedrock principles of our constitution is supposed to be that federal powers are limited and defined. If you can’t limit it and define it, it’s not a federal power. (Note: My opinion not necessarily that of the Supreme Court.)

THOSE CARBS TURN TO BLOOD GLUCOSE NEARLY AS FAST AS YOU EAT THEM:  White rice is as bad as candy when it comes to heart health: study.

PRICES ARE UP NEARLY 25% IN AUGUST:  Here’s why the US is facing a butter shortage ahead of holidays.

I’VE BEEN WONDERING WHETHER THESE PROJECTS ARE WRITTEN BY AI:  Amazon analyst said he ‘fell asleep’ watching the company’s LOTR ‘Rings of Power’ TV show, making him even more worried the $1 billion project may be a bust.

ANY EFFORT AT TOTAL CONTROL OF INFORMATION IS AN EFFORT AT TOTALITARIANISM:  When few control the flow of information, we all suffer.

SOME BITS OF HOPE:  Where Artificial Intelligence Can Expose Leftist Vote Fraud.