THE NEW SPACE RACE: As the U.S. and China race to the moon, America’s hopes rest on SpaceX — and it’s behind.

SPLIT CIRCUITS: Shot: 7th Circuit Appeals Court Dodges Key Issues On Using National Guard To Assist ICE Operations In Chicago: It lets a truly horrendous District Court TRO remain in place mostly because it’s only good for 14 days and further facts will be developed in hearings concerning a possible Injunction.

Chaser: Ninth Circuit Panel (by 2-1 Vote): President Trump Likely Lawfully Ordered National Guard to Portland.

TRUST THE EXPERTS, THEY SAID: Ex-director of nuclear programs at Oak Ridge National Lab arrested on child sex charges. “Worrall, who is English, was given the Award for Outstanding Alumni by Lancaster University, UK, for “an outstanding national and international reputation”. He was awarded the Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award in 2021.”

To be fair, these women were in their mid/late teens, underage (it’s 18 in Tennessee) but not really “children.” But even if this were somehow something legal, which it’s not, someone with nuclear responsibilities shouldn’t be making shady contacts on the Internet. And from his official phone? Really? How dumb are the people in charge of our institutions these days? This dumb, I guess.

WHERE SCIENCE MEETS PORN: ‘Megathrust’ Earthquake Could Trigger San Andreas Fault, Scientists Warn.

FASTER, PLEASE: Breakthrough Vitamin K Compounds May Reverse Alzheimer’s Damage.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Fecal microbiota transplant may help patients with IBS and depressive symptoms.

FUTURE EVs: Future Electric Vehicles: The EVs You’ll Soon Be Able to Buy.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: A Concealed Carry Primer: Build a system that actually works for you.

HOWARD WOLOWITZ, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Robot hands are becoming more human.

BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA: Something from “space” may have just struck a United Airlines flight over Utah. “Assuming this was not a Shohei Ohtani home run ball, the only other potential cause of the damage is an object from space. That was the initial conclusion of the pilot, but a meteor is more likely than space debris. Estimates vary, but a recent study in the journal Geology found that about 17,000 meteorites strike Earth in a given year. That is at least an order of magnitude greater than the amount of human-made space debris that survives reentry through Earth’s atmosphere.”

GOOD THAT WE’RE CONTROLLING THE BORDERS: Border agents find dangerous insect species seen in U.S. for first time.

FUN, DANGEROUS FUN. Nighttime Halloween fun presents heightened risk for kids.

I’M A FAN OF SALLY MANN, AND I THINK IT’S SILLY THAT NAKED CANDID PICTURES OF HER KIDS ARE TREATED AS PORNOGRAPHY. Kids used to be thought of as nonsexual, and naked pictures of kids in normal life were common. Now people get in trouble for bathtub pics. I swear, I’m surprised they haven’t banned the Coppertone girl yet. But if right-wing censorship is so bad, why doesn’t this NPR article on how bad it is include any of the photos that people objected to?

CHANGE: Harvard med school puts kibosh on students’ ‘pro-Palestine vigil.’

“DEADLY REVENGE” ON OUR CAMPUSES. Students for Justice in Palestine calls for deadly revenge after activist is killed in Gaza infighting. But it gets funny: “The leading anti-Israel campus coalition called for violent retaliation after a Palestinian influencer was killed in a firefight between Hamas and a rival militia—calling the local faction a ‘Zionist proxy.'”

KURT SCHLICHTER: J.D. Vance Comes Home to the Marine Corps. “Watching the Vice-President work the crowd, including off-script banter and signing a bunch of the Devil Dogs’ covers thrown on stage, is watching a future master learning his art. Republicans, we’ve got somebody special in J.D. Vance. Now, I’ve known that for a long time. I’ve had the chance to talk to him and his wife, and, importantly, my wife had a chance to talk to him and his wife. My wife approves of them, and so do I. We both meet a lot of politicians; a lot of them are nice but unexceptional. Some are stiffs. Not the Vances.”

I agree. I hung out with J.D. a couple of times before he went into politics, and had lunch with him and Usha and their firstborn (then a baby) when they were passing through Knoxville. They’re good people, and super smart. And not fake at all.

OF COURSE IT’S IDIOCY, IT COMES FROM THE LEFT:

In fact, the sentiments expressed by the Founders were based solidly on English common law principles. Their basic argument was that they had not abandoned their inherited rights *as Englishmen* merely by emigrating to America.@minordissent

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 20, 2025

CDR SALAMANDER: Anduril and the Promise of Autonomous Systems – with Chris Brose.

YEAH, IT’S THE RAGE OF A PARASITE CLASS FOR THE MOST PART:

The protests today are a great barometer to show just how wonderfully effective President Trump and this administration have been in deconstructing the government leviathan and its liberal pet projects.

The folks who turn out for this have one thing in common: That they want…

— RedPillTruth2024 (@RedPillTruth20) October 18, 2025

I’ve looked at about 100 pictures of the protesters from today’s march.

Old white liberal women, beta males, gays, lesbians, and misinformed and misguided college kids.

A real freak fest of hateful and stupid people.

That’s all I have to say about that.

— RedPillTruth2024 (@RedPillTruth20) October 19, 2025

“THE GREAT FEMINIZATION:” A compelling theory of woke. “Andrews’ thesis is simple: ‘woke’ has become so powerful because our institutions have become feminized, and women have different values than men.”

APPARENTLY THE “KING’S” POLICIES ARE POPULAR WITH THE CITIZENRY: Morning Greatness: Americans Support Antifa Terror Designation.

WHY GEN Z IS LEANING HARD RIGHT:

No Country for Young Grads.

They studied. They borrowed. They believed in the dream and got ghosted by the job market.

AI took the entry-level spots.
Foreign visa pipelines filled the rest.
Now half of America’s new grads are in jobs that don’t even need a degree.

We didn’t… pic.twitter.com/USqsLdFZjF

— Hany Girgis (@SanDiegoKnight) October 18, 2025

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: New Poll Finds Soaring Approval for Trump’s Handling of Israel-Hamas War.

YEP:

No kings but we’ll shoot you for not believing what we believe.

— Magellan (@MagellanVa) October 19, 2025

FLASHBACK: Make DC A Swamp Again.