I’M NOT PREPARED, BUT I’M RESIGNED:

No one is prepared for how stupid things are about to get. https://t.co/sV843FM1pA

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) July 17, 2026

MURDER WILL OUT: Ancient DNA Finally Solves a 16th-Century Murder Mystery.

WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? Parasites Are Surging in The US. Here’s Exactly How to Wash Your Produce.

OH, PLEASE: Plane passenger invoked Sharia law to avoid sitting next to a woman —then attacked female flight attendant: cops.

LET THE SUNSHINE IN: Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in a Hidden Fifth Dimension?

THIS IS AN AGE OF MIRACLES AND WONDERS: Implant Helps Paralyzed Man to Feed Himself and Drink From a Cup.

I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING: Hypercar Electric Motor Tech Teams Up With a Quad-Turbo Diesel V-12 to Boost eVTOL Range.

WHY NOT BOTH? Personnel is Policy: Talarico Hires UT ‘Cocks Not Glocks’ Organizer to Craft His Anti-Gun Platform.

YEAH, HOW ABOUT THAT:

It’s wild how hard Schumer is trying to stop our elections from being secured. lol https://t.co/Umpi3uiMM6

— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) July 17, 2026

AI NEWS: Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle.

WE WILL LAUNCH NO ROCKET BEFORE ITS TIME: SpaceX abruptly scrubs Starship test flight.

COVID WAS A HUGE PUBLIC HEALTH FAILURE: Syphilis cases in expectant mothers have dramatically risen since the pandemic. A core complaint here, though, is . . . wait for it . . . “lack of funding.”

BURGERS AND FRIES — THE BEST THING FOR YOU: How to stay safe during the cyclosporiasis outbreak.

FREE SPEECH UPDATE: Court sides with U. Pittsburgh professor demoted for criticizing affirmative action: Third Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated medical professor’s case after judge threw out defamation claims.

GOOD: DHS to begin placing stricter time limits on student visas. “The change is meant to combat the rising number of visa holders, a trend that the department says ‘poses a challenge to DHS’s ability to monitor ​and oversee ⁠these nonimmigrants while they are in the United States.’”

I INTERVIEWED MARCO RUBIO WHEN HE WAS FIRST RUNNING FOR SENATE. HE’S COME A LONG WAY.

Cannot be overstated how good this is. https://t.co/88ioa9Jw2p

— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) July 17, 2026

HAHA: ‘The Doctor … Thinks of You as a Half Citizen’: Abdul El-Sayed Said Doctors Who Don’t Accept Medicaid ‘Discriminate’ Against Black People. His Psychiatrist Wife Doesn’t Participate in the Program.

RICHLY DESERVED: Former AG John Ashcroft Schools Adam Schiff in the Most Brutal Way.

SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: A Letter to The New Republic on Epistemic Closure.

THIS:

https://t.co/6LtQJn5DKG pic.twitter.com/efjWROKI04

— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) July 16, 2026

ICYMI:

Sen. Ruben Gallego had sexual relationships with two House staffers, sources reveal to The Post https://t.co/4TtGiZAnOR pic.twitter.com/Cdj7LEdXBx

— New York Post (@nypost) July 16, 2026

MATT VESPA: President Trump Reveals What We All Suspected About the 2020 Election in Primetime Address.

WELL, TRUMP DIDN’T INVOKE THE GUARANTEE CLAUSE. Yet.

OPEN THREAD: Cry a jag for me.

SPACE: Meteorite that crashed through New Jersey house could hold the clues to life’s origins: “Thanks to the homeowner’s quick reaction, these are the most pristine CM1/2 meteorites we know of.”