THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Psyche metal asteroid mission launches this week: Here’s what you need to know.

OLYMPIC ICON MARY LOU RETTON ‘CONTINUES TO FIGHT’ IN ICU AS FUNDRAISER FOR HER MEDICAL EXPENSES SHATTERS GOAL.

WELL, UP TO NOW YOU MANAGED TO KEEP YOUR EYES CLOSED, AND NOT WITHOUT SOME EFFORT:

"When did you first begin to suspect?"

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 12, 2023

FORTUNATELY, THEY CAN BE KILLED: Hamas assault shows terrorists can’t be managed.

And so can their funders and backers.

HIGHER EDUCATION AS A TOXIC INDUSTRY: Cornell University official slammed for disturbing posts calling Hamas terror attacks a ‘resistance.’

PLAYBOY > HARVARD:

I’m so old, I can remember when it would have been shocking to suggest that Playboy Magazine has more moral sense than Harvard University. Nowadays, maybe that doesn’t come as a surprise. In any event, it’s true. When former porn performer Mia Khalifa tweeted her support for Hamas’s mass murderers and suggested that the killers should film their deeds horizontally so she could see them better, Playboy promptly cashiered her:

tfw Playboy issues a better statement than Harvard pic.twitter.com/0D5x1FaOSS

— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) October 10, 2023

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Glass Shards of Ancient Volcanic Eruption Found in Antarctic Ice 3,000 Miles Away.

HARVARD STUDENTS LEARNING SOMETHING? HEY, IT COULD HAPPEN! Harvard students having second thoughts about siding with Hamas. “Harvard is a place where microaggressions are very serious but siding with terrorist murderers, not so much.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “The lesson is that luxury beliefs vanish the instant the luxury is threatened. How much of our fake politics would turn in an instant if we didn’t have institutional enforcement and narrative policing, and everyone just had to stand on their own behind their own thoughts? What if radical chic consistently cost something? What if tenured communists had risk?”

Pushback works.

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “On every issue we need to find the equivalent of bussing/flying in illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities.”

CAN IT COME HERE?

The short answer to this is, “Yes. Next question.” For anyone who requires an explanation, rather that showing strength, Biden and Blinken are too cowardly to take a strong position against Iran. Rather than even criticize a terrorist outlaw regime, Biden hopes to consummate a nuclear treaty with mullahs who make no secret of their religious desire to destroy “the Great Satan,” and who support the beheading of infants and their mothers.

During Biden’s administration, there has been an increasing number of criminal “migrants” on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, who have been apprehended at our Southern border, including 160 through July 2023 alone in just this year. As of April 2023, the Border Patrol confirmed that 1.2 million illegal “migrants” “got away” from authorities while crossing the border under this administration. And these got-aways are just those who were spotted but not apprehended. If only 0.1 % of those among them are terrorists, that would be an additional 1,200 terrorists God-knows-where in the U.S. And, we have no idea how many terrorists have infiltrated into the Country, often with the aid of the Mexican drug cartels, without being caught. But it is a certainty that they are here.

Does anyone believe they will not attempt another attack here? Not a limited isolated attack on a single nightclub or a pipe bomb in Times Square, but a massive and complex attack intended to inflict maximum horror such as the murder of thousands, beheading of babies, recording the murder of grandmothers and sending the videos to their families, burning women and children alive, and more.

Do not think that cannot happen here. And, for our political leaders, you must do everything in your power to stop this appeasement.

If they do something, it will look like Day of Wrath, by William Forstchen.

OF COURSE THEY DON’T: They Don’t Mean It: BLM Chicago Backtracks, Deletes Hamas Tweet w/ No Apology.

BUILD MORE NUKES, OBVIOUSLY. With boom of generative AI, researcher warns of energy costs.

SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE: Israeli woman, 25, hailed as a hero for killing terrorists, leading team that saved kibbutz from Hamas.

Inbar Lieberman, the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am since December 2022, heard explosions early Saturday, when the terrorists launched their unprecedented attack on the Jewish state, according to Walla News.

She realized that the sounds were different than those heard during the usual rocket attacks on the kibbutz — located near Sderot and a stone’s throw from the Gaza Strip.

So Lieberman rushed to open the armory, distributed guns to the 12-member security team and coordinated their decisive response amid the unfolding attack.

She placed her squad of kibbutzniks in strategic positions across the settlement and set up ambushes that caught the gunmen off guard and turned the tables on them during their mission to inflict mass casualties.

This is great, though I’d recommend ensuring that the security team has personal weapons ready to hand at all times, without waiting for someone to open the armory. I know the Minuteman model isn’t an Israeli thing, but maybe it should be.

GLENN GREENWALD:

The fraudulent "disinformation industry" was invented after Brexit and Trump's 2016 win because Western elites concluded online free speech is too dangerous.

This EU study — designed to legally force X to censor more — is supremely fraudulent:https://t.co/dK2JG7VU8X pic.twitter.com/6jOu5PrOQi

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 10, 2023

Exit quote: “You should assume that everyone claiming to be a ‘disinformation expert’ is a fraud and censorship advocate.”

UNTIL THEY QUIT MAKING STUFF UP (“HALLUCINATING”) I DON’T THINK THEY SHOULD HAVE A ROLE IN ANYTHING IMPORTANT: How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: You Won’t Believe How Many Times Biden Lied About His Corrupt Family Business.

GIVE HIM CONSEQUENCES, THAT’S THE ONLY WAY THEY LEARN: Principal reinstates privileges for senior after punishment for dancing video; ‘too little, too late,’ mom says. “It’s too little, too late. I even told him on the phone conversation when he made it to us at noon today asking us to come into the office and he mentioned reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was done, and the damage that he’s done to her is done.”

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: Harvard Student Leaves Lecture On Microaggressions To Attend ‘Kill The Jews’ Rally.

PRIME BIG DEAL: Keurig K-Compact Single-Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned

BECAUSE OF COURSE: Biden Won’t Refreeze Iran’s $6 Billion.

As I guessed last night, the Biden Cabal won’t let anything derail their resurrection of Obama’s Iran Deal.