“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

A DELICIOUS TREATMENT: Cocoa, berries found to protect heart health during long sits.

ALSO JET AIRPLANES: Honda Builds Cars, Motorcycles, Lawnmowers … and Now Space Rockets.

LOL, EVERYTOWN. Printer Panic: Everytown 3D Gun Summit Targets Technological Advancement.

SPACE: An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit: “Size is not the limit anymore.”

HAPPY HALLOWEEN:

Christians observe All Hallows’ Eve as a chance to both acknowledge death and laugh at it, because we know that death is not an end; we learned that half-a-year ago during the Easter Triduum that preceded Christ’s victory over death. https://t.co/ajlQdq8aNH

— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) October 30, 2025

WELL, GOOD: Clinical trial shows promise for injectable drug to treat asthma.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX Updates for Faster and Simpler Plan to Return Astronauts to the Moon.

STONEWALL: ‘Deeply worrying’: Indiana U. refuses to release plagiarism investigation into president.

CANADA’S TOP GENERAL. CANADA’S. TOP. GENERAL.

She isn't crying from guilt or shame or sympathy. She is crying from religious ecstasy.

We are not dealing with a political philosophy here, but a faith, with gods, devils, saints, martyrs, doctrines, rituals, heaven, hell, and original sin.

Most people aren't capable of… https://t.co/UOdUlZzG8G

— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) October 31, 2025

LEFTISM IS HATE: University of Minnesota Duluth TPUSA chapter reports multiple death threats: The death threats, including one from the president of a leftist student organization, are under investigation by the university.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges Face a Financial Reckoning. The University of Chicago Is Exhibit A. Decades of big spending, new federal funding cuts and a changing view of higher education created a perfect storm; ‘Spending Your Tuition On Its Mistakes.’

The school that produced Milton Friedman and 34 other Nobel Prize-winning economists is struggling to manage its pocketbook.

The University of Chicago ran budget deficits for 14 years straight, spending big on new labs, dorms and technology to raise its profile and enrollment. Now it’s facing a financial reckoning.

Over the summer, university leaders said they needed to cut $100 million in expenses. They decided to slow tenure-track hiring, scale back new construction and pause admissions to nearly 20 Ph.D. programs for a year. They’ve been aggressively fundraising and soft launched a new capital campaign.
By the time freshmen arrived in September with their minifridges and extra-long sheets, disgruntled faculty and graduate students had printed up flyers. Families—many paying $71,000 a year—were handed a paper that read “UChicago: Spending Your Tuition On Its Mistakes.”

The university is an acute example of the financial woes plaguing higher education. . . . Ando thinks all research universities need to come to terms with what they’re selling and whether it still makes sense.

If only there had been some sort of warning.

UPDATE: A Few Friendly Suggestions for College Presidents.