HMM: Diverticulitis among people younger than 50 surges in U.S., study says.

HIGHER EDUCATION, CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND RACISM: “A civil rights complaint has been filed against Colorado State University alleging that certain ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ social work teaching methods constitute illegal race- and sex-based discrimination.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Students caught using wrong pronouns at Harvard may violate harassment policies.

JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘We’re coming after you’ — how the left found peace through hate. “The key to hate is to decouple it entirely from reason and reality. Only then can you hate completely without restraint or regret. It seems that the left has learned how to hate. Hateful speech is in vogue as Democratic leaders ramp up violent rhetoric and political violence rises. The key is to get voters to hate your opponent so much that they forget how much they dislike you. The irony is crushing. For years, liberals have sought to criminalize hate speech while expanding the range of viewpoints considered to fall within this category. Democratic leaders, from senators to former presidential candidates, have falsely claimed that hate speech is not protected under the First Amendment.”

NATE SILVER: Is New Jersey the next swing state? Probably not. But a Republican win on Tuesday would make the state worth watching in 2028.

ROGER KIMBALL: New York Reruns: What Mamdani Means for New York.

The thing to remember is, a poor, crime-ridden New York that drives out the well-off and middle class isn’t an accident. It’s the goal. It’s easier for leftist politicians to rule and rape an unhealthy polity than a healthy one. See, e.g., Detroit, Memphis, etc.

NAILED IT:

If you watch one thing today, let it be this…

Elon Musk goes on Joe Rogan and tears the mask off, exposing exactly why Democrats are prolonging the government shutdown and fighting to keep the money flowing to criminal aliens:

“The Democratic Party wants to destroy democracy… pic.twitter.com/YJSgfi3Egv

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 31, 2025

REMINDER:

We haven't forgotten about you, Iryna 💔 pic.twitter.com/ATXfjeBaUj

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) October 30, 2025

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.