ASHLEY MCCULLY: ‘Breast Is Best’ and Other Lies.

You would be hard-pressed to find a mother today who has not been bombarded with the phrase Breast is Best! From the moment a healthcare provider gets involved in her pregnancy, the assumption is a mother will breastfeed her baby. Formula is a choice — if she doesn’t want to bond with her baby or give her child their best chance at optimal development or shed those pesky postpartum pounds.

Formula shaming is real, but so is breastfeeding derision. Mothers who are able to nurse their children will be cooed and fawned over — as long as they do so invisibly. Breast is Best! until someone sees it, and then it’s disgusting and offensive.

Women have silently battled these contradicting expectations, along with all of the other mayhem that accompanies having a newborn — postpartum depression, hair loss, tidal waves of hormones, exhaustion, and all kinds of fluids. But here comes a transgender person being praised for unnaturally doing what women are naturally expected to do.

Understanding this hypocritical cycle brings us back to the why: why is the CDC in the business of “chestfeeding” guidance in the first place?

Read the whole thing.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Alderman, residents upset over plan to house migrants in Chicago park field house.

As CBS 2’s Shardaa Gray reported, Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) held a meeting Tuesday night to address the news he says he himself only recently learned about.

The alderman is upset, and some Galewood residents are livid, about the plan to use the fieldhouse at Amundsen Park, 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave., as a migrant shelter.

Taliaferro said the Mayor’s office told him four days ago this was happening, whether he and his constituents liked it or not.

“I told them right away that I objected to it, because there had been no community engagement,” Taliaferro said, “and the response given to me was, ‘You’re getting it.'”

The Chicago Park District building was used for senior programs and sports events. He said the Mayor’s office said all park programs would be canceled.

“They said this is happening whether you object to it or not, and this is happening whether your community objects to it or not,” said Ald. Taliaferro.

So a lot like life in Texas or Arizona then.

THERE’S A LOT OF KOOKY STUFF GOING ON AROUND MICHIGAN STATE: MSU College of Law concerned Spartan helmet may trigger assault victims. If you can’t stand a helmet, you aren’t suitable to practice law. If you think your students are that troubled, then you shouldn’t be preying on them for tuition money.

WE’VE GOT TO PROTECT OUR PHONY-BALONEY JOBS! Amtrak Hides Hefty Salaries Of Thousands Of Employees While It Hemorrhages Millions.

MOBS OF “TEENS” LOOT A WASHINGTON, DC CVS, LITERALLY PICKING ITS SHELVES CLEAN:

“Youngsters.” Whatever euphemisms we can think of to make hardened thieves appear to be innocent scamps.

“When you walk into this CVS, you’d think the store is closing because there’s barely anything on the shelves,” WTTG reporter Sierra Fox said.

Spoiler:is closing. CVS will close 900 locations by the end of 2024.

What are the odds that the Columbia Heights, DC store will remain open?

Or that any stores in DC will remain open?

How long do these idiots think that people are going to continue spending good money so that human-shaped locusts can steal them blind?

There will be no shops left in Washington DC, and then they’ll start whining about “food deserts” and “CVS deserts.”

No need to worry though, because DC’s attorney general is completely on top of the issue: “Amid a surge in youth-driven violent crime in the nation’s capital, newly elected attorney general for the District of Columbia Brian Schwalb is laser-focused—on his political enemies. Reports suggest that Schwalb is investigating, of all people, Leonard Leo, the longtime chairman of the Federalist Society.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: White House In FULL PANIC MODE Over Border Crisis (And You Won’t Believe What Happens Next).

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: RealClearInvestigations: DC’s Revolving Door Is Swinging Briskly for the Eco-Green Eyeshade People.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Berkeley boasts of lowered admissions standards in attempt to recruit grad students.

SPACE: SpaceX requests special approval to take a huge step forward.

Faced with ongoing barriers to the second, much-anticipated test flight of SpaceX’s Starship project, the world’s leading private space company is looking to make good on a slightly different experiment. SpaceX, according to documentation, has requested a “Special Temporary Authority” from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its Gen2 satellites.

The goal, according to the filing, is to “launch and test its non-geostationary orbit NGSO second generation Gen2 satellites with direct-to-cellular communications payloads to connect unmodified cellular phones directly to SpaceX Gen2 satellites.”

The effort, made in conjunction with telecommunications giant T-Mobile (TMUS) – Get Free Report, is meant eventually to entirely eliminate cellular “dead zones,” ensuring 100% cellular connectivity through Starlink, all the time.

Nifty, but…: Biden’s war on everything Elon Musk.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Check In On Joe Biden’s Rogue Goon Squad FBI. “It’s been some time since we discussed the FBI here at the Briefing. I occasionally wonder if I’m too eager when calling them out. One never knows what might set off Biden’s Bureau these days.”

DON SURBER: Popcorn or toasted marshmallows? Watching the American news media collapse is entertaining.

My own ad revenues are plummeting, but it’s worth it.

AT THIS POINT, BIDEN WILL SOON BE ANNOUNCING THAT MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT: Mayorkas announces border wall construction.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: All you need to know about NASA’s Psyche mission, launching next week.

NASA’s Psyche mission is due to launch at 10:16 a.m. EDT on Thursday 12 October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
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The Psyche mission (named after the asteroid, not the other way around!) will reveal the strange object’s nature, composition and evolution, and shed further light on the origin of the Solar System.

“It is our hope that Psyche teaches us about new and unexpected aspects of planet formation processes that have yet to be explored,” says co-investigator Bill Bottke of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

As for the asteroid itself, “we know it’s metal-rich, but beyond that, its origin is an enigma.”

After the Earth, Sun, and Moon, Psyche might prove to be the most valuable object in the solar system. Whoever controls it will have access to a treasure trove of metals that don’t sit at the bottom of a deep gravity well.

Godspeed…

Update: NASA Delays Psyche Launch 1 Week to Fix Engine Glitch.

AN EPIDEMIC OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS. When there are substantial rewards for making accusations, and few real consequences for making false ones, what else would you expect?

We need fewer rewards, and more consequences.

FBI NOW INVESTIGATING HALF THE COUNTRY: Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears.

I’m pretty sure that The Lives of Others was not intended to be a how-to guide for government:

BOB GRABOYES: The Historian Enters History.

IT USUALLY DOES: KJP Blames GOP for Rep. Cuellar Getting Carjacked, and It Gets Dumber.

HERE’S MY AGENDA FOR CONGRESS:  Last week, the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing entitled, “How SCOTUS’s Decision on Race-Based Admissions is Shaping University Policies,” with the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Alison Somin testifying (among others).

My experience with GOP Members of Congress is that they tend to get the deer-in-the-headlights whenever issues of race and sex are brought to their attention.  They much prefer the courts to solve the problems (while the courts prefer Congress to do so).

Is the fact they were willing to hold this hearing a sign that’s changing?  Well … I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC: Satanists Turn On Leader Over Transgenderism After He Takes Photo With ‘Ex-Woke’ Atheist.

THE FIX IS IN: Biden Taps Former Hunter Biden Colleague To Lead Office of the Special Counsel.

President Joe Biden has nominated Hunter Biden’s former law firm colleague to lead the Office of the Special Counsel, which has faced congressional pressure to investigate the Biden administration’s handling of an investigation into the troubled first son.

Biden on Wednesday tapped Hampton Dellinger to lead the office, which investigates corruption in the executive branch and provides protections to federal whistleblowers. Dellinger currently serves as head of the Justice Department’s office of legal policy.

If confirmed, Dellinger could create a conflict of interest given his links to Hunter Biden. Dellinger and the younger Biden worked together at the white shoe law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, the Washington Free Beacon reported. In 2014, Hunter Biden tapped Boies Schiller Flexner to represent Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy firm where he served as a board member.

This White House doesn’t even bother trying to maintain a facade of propriety — and why would they, when the press won’t hold them to account?

I LIKED IT WHEN WE COULD BUILD SHIPS THAT WORKED: LCS’s Long, Sad, and Early Goodbye. “It is a busy world and well-meaning people assumed that the Navy that won the Cold War had enough institutional knowledge and inertia of excellence to properly develop the fleet of the future. Oops.”

DEMOCRAT PARTY OPERATIVE HAS A SAD: Andrea Mitchell Gets Triggered When Guest Defends GOP Booting Pelosi From Her Office.

After repeating that Boehner and Ryan did not stay long after their tenures, [Brendan] Buck got to the larger point, “I will confess a, maybe, unpopular opinion. I don’t have any problem with Patrick McHenry taking away an office space from Nancy Pelosi. They booted—they just basically worked with Matt Gaetz to construct a coup of the Republican leadership.”

Mitchell did not like that response as she huffed, “Well, the fact is they changed the locks while she was in San Francisco and couldn’t –”

Undeterred, Buck doubled down, “I don’t think that when you participate in a coup of the Republican leadership that you should expect any professional courtesy at this point. I don’t think any—I think any collegiality goes out the door at that point. So, I know that may be unpopular, but I have absolutely no problem with that.”

Buck is correct. For years, Democrats and their media friends demanded Republicans put the country before party and McCarthy even claimed that Pelosi declared that if a motion to vacate came up, Democrats would do just that. Naturally this did not matter to Mitchell and when given that choice on Tuesday, Democrats put their partisan self-interest first because McCarthy allegedly hurt their feelings and they think Republican dysfunction benefits them at the ballot box.

Earlier: The Whole ‘McHenry Kicks Pelosi Out of Her Hideaway Office’ Story Gets Even More Amusing.

WELL, THEY ARE THE CITY: Mark Simon: Hong Kongers Are Leaving And Taking The City With Them. “Common financial practices, an understanding of the rule of law, even community and family ties are key productivity drivers. If that combination departs Hong Kong, it just can’t be filled overnight, and possibly ever. The world is not going to wait while Hong Kong retools its labor market. If you were a foreign business, why put up with instability? It’s easier move to Singapore or some other location.”

CHANGE: Pennsylvania School District Takes Common Sense Approach to Bathrooms.

THOUGHTS ON TRANSLATING HOMER. I love this: “Fagles opts for midriff, which once meant ‘diaphragm’ in English but today makes it sound like Sarpedon was speared somewhere between his low-rise jean shorts and his crop top.”