OPEN THREAD: You oughta know how all the pros play the game.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches Shenzhou 21 astronauts to Tiangong space station for a 6-month stay.

PERHAPS WE CAN GET IT THERAPY: Deep Beneath The Pacific Ocean, Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Itself Apart.

HMM: Amazon Scorpion Venom Shows Promise as Next-Generation Breast Cancer Drug.

A WAVE OF THESE IS COMING, AND OBESITY WILL SOON BE A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: Eli Lilly says weight-loss pill a candidate for speedy approval under new US program.

THAT’S WHAT SUBARUS DO: Our 2025 Subaru Forester Was Reliably Mundane Through 10K Miles.

WE NEED A FEDERAL OPEN CARRY LAW THAT PREEMPTS STATE LEGISLATION: New York City’s Byzantine, Post-Bruen Carry Permit ‘Compliance’ Regime is as Intentionally Unconstitutional As You’d Expect.

OPPORTUNITY FOR RICHES: Restoring youthful microvascular function to aging skin.

#WINNING: SpaceX launches 100th successful Starlink mission of 2025.

HMM: Study recommends against prescription sleep drugs for older insomniacs.

CHANGE: FDA announces plans to relax rules about copycat drugs.

“OUR DEMOCRACY.”

You know how our government backs coups in other countries to replace one party with another?

Well, the same groups, intelligence agencies, nonprofits, foundations, have long ago turned those tactics inward, backing Democrats to overthrow Republicans.

That’s the whole…

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 31, 2025

WHY ARE CAMPUS LEFTISTS SO VIOLENT? Charges pending in Oklahoma State U. incident trashing YAF display ‘Marriage = 1 man + 1 woman.’

Fired Illinois State U. TA that flipped TPUSA table arrested for threats against Trump.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Professors denounce Trump’s Compact, want taxpayer money with no strings attached.

GENOCIDE: Trump Designates Nigeria A ‘Country Of Particular Concern,’ After Untold Slaughter Of Christians.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Fundraises for Self-Described ‘Jew Hater’ Who Assaulted Jewish Counter-Protesters.

ANDREW SULLIVAN: “Read A Book:” The circular, impregnable resilience of Higher Miseducation.

One of the more maddening aspects of the rise of wokeness in the last decade was how some of the younger advocates for “social justice” responded to criticism. “Read a book,” they’d tell me, and roll their eyes. I was twice their age, had relevant degrees from Oxford and Harvard, but I could obviously only believe what I believed because I had never “read a book.” No discussion was possible until I had “educated” myself — a task they refused to expend any “emotional labor” on. A few exasperated huffs, a slight panic in their angry eyes, and they were gone. . . . It wasn’t the differing opinion that upset me. One of my queerest character traits is that I love differing opinions. It was the assumption that none of this was opinion at all, but merely established empirical fact — of which I was blissfully unaware, probably because I was a bad-faith bigot, or had never picked up a book. This absolute certainty was also generally correlated with higher levels of education — just as “liberals” and “very liberals” were far more likely to have a college degree than those to their right. Over time, my friends began to wither among the educated classes, especially the newly minted and humorless “queers”, as I gravitated to normies, who had some strong views, were open to some others, and enjoyed a good chat and smoke sesh.

Higher education doesn’t produce value as advertised. It’s quite possibly a value-destroying phenomenon overall.

SAY ANYTHING: It’s Bizarre, but Democrats Are Arguing That Trump Is Senile.

ALEX BERENSON: Why a seven-story glass building in North Miami forced the government to shut down. “It seems possible the center, which is 336,000 square feet over seven floors, cost as much as a half-billion dollars — well over $1,000 per square foot, as much as or more than a high-end Manhattan skyscraper. This is nuts. The building is a bunch of office and surgery suites. It closes at 5 p.m. and isn’t open on weekends. It may need some backup power so the lights won’t go out in the middle of a facelift, but it does not require a hospital’s infrastructure. . . . It’s all fun and games, especially for hospital executives, except that American healthcare is now so expensive that it can only survive with massive government subsidies, as I wrote last month. Bloated does not begin to describe the system.”

CHANGE: Big Day in Bolivia. “No longer will Bolivia be another sad, failing, socialist hermit kingdom.”

OPEN THREAD: Sometimes the clothes don’t make the man.

ALIENS: You won’t see interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom closest to the sun on Oct. 30 — but these spacecraft will. I hope they get good pictures of the plasma cannon.

FIND MORE OF THESE, PLEASE: Powerful New Antibiotic Was ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ For Decades.

PREDICTION IS OKAY BUT WHAT ABOUT TREATMENT? This Hidden Brain Pulse Could Predict Dementia. My mother, who is beginning to experience dementia, listened to her neurologist telling her diagnostic results and said “well, now that you have a diagnosis, is there anything you can do to fix me?” To which the neurologist replied, with slight embarrassment, “uh, no, not really.”

WELL, GOOD. BUT THIS KEEPS HAPPENING.

As predicted by moi — from the Seventh Circuit just moments ago:

"While this litigation presents very challenging circumstances, the district court’s order has two principal failings. First, it puts the court in the position of an inquisitor rather than that of aneutral… https://t.co/Lsbkadehl2 pic.twitter.com/GFVsEcnPkj

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) October 31, 2025