ILYA SHAPIRO: The Constitutional Commentary We Need. A review of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: Fully Revised Third Edition by Josh Blackman, John Malcolm, et al.

YEP.

The NAACP will back the whitest woman to have ever lived if it means not supporting a black Republican woman.

Like the ADL, it is a completely useless organization that will counter its own supposed mission to maintain power for one party. https://t.co/6y3FnTrI1I

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 26, 2025

AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENT. WELL, AT LEAST IN THE TOP THREE BAD ONES. Flashback: Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Rot Inside Higher Education Is Too Deep to Self-Correct.

In virtually every college and university in America, there reigns today an ideological monoculture skewed to the left. At Central Connecticut State University [CCSU], where I have taught history for the last 35 years, there are just five or six self-proclaimed conservatives on a faculty of nearly 500. Moreover, many faculty abuse their power over students by reserving class time otherwise spent on the subject they are contractually required to teach by articulating and imposing a left-wing orthodoxy on students who have neither the autonomy nor the intellectual wherewithal to challenge. Over the years, but more so since the death of George Floyd and the riots and destruction it triggered, CCSU students have told me in confidence and in whispered tones how much they resent their professors selfishly shoving their politics down their throats such as issues of illegal immigration, President Trump, non-existent Israeli genocide in Gaza, “systemic racism,” and so on.

A sociology professor at CCSU even informed her students that “listening to country music means you have a white hood [like those worn by the Ku Klux Klan] hanging in your closet.”

All of this is a perversion of why universities exist: to provide students with the knowledge, drawn from exposure to a wide range of opinions on multiple subjects, they will need to prosper vocationally and in every other aspect of their lives. But while CCSU and nearly every other university in America loudly proclaim their commitment to diversity based on race, gender, and class, intellectual diversity, which is the only kind that truly matters in higher education, is virtually absent.

Yes, it is.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

OOPS: Surgeons remove dozens of magnets from teen’s stomach.

MICROBIOME NEWS: These Fungi Live Inside You, And They May Affect Your Health.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s Glowing at the Center of Our Galaxy? New Study Points to Dark Matter.

ZZZZ: New research uncovers how the brain’s activity, energy use, and blood flow change as people fall asleep.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Just How Annoying Is Driving the 2025 Chevrolet Blazer EV Without Apple CarPlay?

PROGRESS: New Hampshire Bill Strengthening Second Amendment Rights on Public Property Advances.

LAWMAKERS AND KARENS: You’re actually not allowed to keep bird feathers you find on hikes—and it’s all thanks to two women who got really mad about hats.

HISTORY: DNA from Napoleon’s 1812 army identifies pathogens likely responsible for the army’s demise during retreat from Russia.

HMM: Psoriasis in kids linked to parents’ divorce, separation.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Duke U. professors not happy about overwhelmingly popular ‘Iryna’s Law.’

Out of touch as usual.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Harvard to host ‘BDSM and Kinks’ workshop as part of 13th annual ‘Sex Week,’ offers free sex toys.

TERRORISTS: Journalists Uncover Antifa ‘Hit List’ on the Streets of Portland.

MAKE THEM PAY: The Left Has Never Been Held Accountable For Political Violence — And That Must Change.

HAHA: Rachel Maddow is at a loss for words. When she sees her employer on the donor list for the Trump ballroom.

WAGES OF LEFTIST GOVERNMENT:

Germany blew up the cooling towers of another nuclear power plant today. There was no reason to shut them down, just leftist ideology.

Now electricity prices are 3x higher than the USA and manufacturers are closing.

Lousy policy has consequences.

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— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) October 25, 2025

SALENA ZITO: The Unconscionable Loss of Conscience for Virginia Democrats. “Virginia Democrats come across looking as though murder and gaming the system are not issues that deserve consequences. They aren’t going to stick their necks out to make Jones leave the race.”

Now do Maine.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Saturday.

THANKS, JUPITER! Without Jupiter, Earth may have spiraled into the sun long ago.

AMAZING:

As is pointed out below, the SpaceX Falcon rocket will do more launches and carry more payload to orbit this year than the Space Shuttle did in its entire history https://t.co/a0GzXBMRcL

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 24, 2025

MICROBIOME NEWS: New research from the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute suggests that a capsule containing healthy gut bacteria could potentially change the future of obesity treatment.