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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 14, 2025
WHAT’S EXCITING IS THAT THIS HAS BECOME SO ROUTINE IT’S BORING: SpaceX launches 300th Starlink satellite-internet mission (video).
JOSHUA TREVIÑO: Charlie Kirk, Martyr. “Millions of Kirk’s disciples may conclude that no politics is possible with an antagonist that reserves murder as its redoubt when argument fails.”
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Muscle Cramps Have a Surprise Cause We Never Realized, Study Suggests.
STEPHEN SACHS: My Remarks at the Harvard Vigil: On Charlie Kirk, violence, and speech.
Related: More Than 100 Students, Faculty Hold Vigil To Mourn Killing of Charlie Kirk.
Plus: Adrian Vermeule: Reflections from a Vigil for Charlie Kirk. “He was in some way a remnant of an older America, which of course means a younger America. An America filled with faith, buoyant with energy and confidence and optimism. An America in which everyone trusted in the goodwill and good sense of their fellow citizens and believed that talking it out in a town square or a town meeting was just the way we do things here. Now I personally don’t necessarily share that trust, or maybe I think that our time is a darker time. But I’m glad that there was someone like Charlie who walked in the light of that America, the America that once was and might be again.”
UPDATE:
Absolutely stunning. I've never seen anything like it https://t.co/RpjVdAberc
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 14, 2025
VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D May Help Slow Aging, Study Finds.
YES.
"Do you support the killing of Charlie Kirk?" should be a question asked of every Democrat politician running for office from 2025 to 2028.
When they say "No" the next question should be
"Will you renounce and say you don't want the vote of any American who approved of or…
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) September 14, 2025
A LOOK AT THE 2026 Nissan Leaf.
By way of comparison, here’s my 2011 Nissan Leaf review.
LIGHT VS. DARKNESS:
New York residents chant “Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!” at the ‘Light Up the Sky for Charlie Kirk’ event in Long Island
The event wrote: “A solemn vigil for Charlie Kirk and his family”
LOVE THIS 🇺🇸
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 14, 2025
THAT’S GOOD BECAUSE GUNS AREN’T A HEALTH ISSUE: Kennedy’s health commission leaves guns out of its 20-page report.
WE HAD BETTER SUCCEED: The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance.”
BEAUTY SLEEP ISN’T A MYTH. “A growing body of research confirms that sleep directly shapes how our skin looks, how youthful it appears and even how attractive others perceive us to be.”
MICROBIOME NEWS: A pathological partnership between Salmonella and yeast in the gut.
IF YOU LIVE IN THIS WORLD, YOU’RE FEELING THE CHANGE OF THE GUARD:
Martyrdom is an amazing force to behold. In my lifetime, I've never seen it, until now. I've read about it, but I've never seen it in action. Truly, an eye-opening event. Millions of hearts changed in a short amount of time. Evil exposed that has lurked in the shadows for…
— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 14, 2025
A CRMININAL LAWYER FRIEND WRITES:
There are very “normal” defense lawyers talking shit about Kirk. I simply unfriended this lawyer in Nashville who thinks people give two fucks what he has to say about the world. Lefties are not only glad Kirk is dead but they’re apoplectic that so many on our side are deeply saddened by his death and moved by the tributes. Fuck that. Fuck then. Wanna vote in your stupid shit? You get to keep trying. But were you can suck a fuck if you are so small you want to tell me who I can mourn.
They’re pushing the middle right farther to the right and they think that by being ghouls and shouting at us, we’ll be like oh yeah Marxism is great and fuck that guy who bled out on live stream. Well fuck them and their small lives.
She’s right.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: No shortage of repulsive comments from K-12 educators following Charlie Kirk murder.
BECAUSE THEY’RE LOSING? Why the Left Wants the Right to ‘Lower the Temperature.’
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS:
Ukrainian drones strike a Russian top oil refinery, sparking massive fire https://t.co/3gN7lzxGvJ pic.twitter.com/5spXRtEMGD
— New York Post (@nypost) September 14, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.
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CHANGE:
The movement is now 100 times bigger. The demons have failed. https://t.co/ypcBvtDwbY
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 14, 2025
UNITING THE KINGDOM:
Maybe Starmer has actually done something useful. He has united the British public against him. https://t.co/hpTHoM2iTN
— Lord Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) September 13, 2025
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: On Reconciliation. “It is said that at the negotiations at Appomattox Courthouse Lee and Grant were both frank and civil during the course of discussing the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Afterwards, Grant sent food to Lee to feed his (and, then, their) nation’s former enemy soldiers. Celebrations for Grant’s soldiers came only later not while Lee’s soldiers remained present. Again, in ending active hostilities, the first step towards national reconciliation was frank and civil discourse. I do not think our present and future is or will be as difficult as was Grant and Lee’s. But we too have to think about national reconciliation.”