OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Blue city ‘breaking point’: San Francisco wants Trump’s help on crime.

RECAP: SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video).

KURT VONNEGUT, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment.

THIS:

pic.twitter.com/tDpyqXbXnx

— The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal) October 14, 2025

Courtesy of Bigfire in last night’s open thread.

I learned COBOL in high school, after Fortran and Basic. Hated it.

UPDATE: Damn, I opened up a can of geeks in the comments with this post. Fun reading!

INDIA IS HAVING A BAD YEAR: WHO warns of contaminated India cough syrups.

I GOT A NON-HYBRID LEXUS TX AS A LOANER AND WAS UNIMPRESSED: I Drove The 2025 Lexus TX 500h, Here’s My Honest Review.

To me, it felt like a minivan with (semi)plausible deniability.

SHUT IT DOWN, IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL: ASA, NRA, SAF, FPC File Lawsuit Challenging the Constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.

I DON’T WANT MY CAR BRICKED BY AN UPDATE: Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Surge in cannabis use seen among individuals with psychosis after legalization.

STAY AWAY FROM COLLEGE: Experts offer tips for college students to avoid getting sick.

WHERE SEDUCTIVE AI MEETS 21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM AND HATE: Memorial for Israeli hostages vandalized, Jewish students threatened at Lewis & Clark College.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Rutgers professor known as ‘Dr. Antifa’ flees to Europe after petition to remove him.

WHAT PETE HEGSETH HAS TO DEAL WITH:

Wow.

Just…wow. pic.twitter.com/lfY0zr6Kf8

— Undercover Brother (@RealUCBfosho) October 13, 2025

WHEN CRIMINALS RUN YOUR STATE GOVERNMENT: Letitia James’ ‘Tenant’ in Mortgage Fraud Home Is a Niece Who Is a Fugitive From North Carolina.

WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS, LLOYD AUSTIN? NJ Gov disappears as state of emergency declared.

WHAT WOULD HENRY THINK? ‘Black Radical’ Group Funded by Ford Foundation To Hold Teach-In Honoring Cop Killer Assata Shakur: Attendees will ‘learn how to continue the work of Assata,’ who was on the FBI’s ‘most wanted terrorist’ list.

I REMEMBER WHEN DEMOCRATS WERE ACCUSING REPUBLICANS OF “EPISTEMIC CLOSURE.”

I checked in on BlueSky to see how people there are reacting to the release of the Israeli hostages, and it’s the eeriest thing. It’s not trending. There’s no mention of it on the “Explore” tab. I started scrolling the feed and went through hundreds of posts without seeing a…

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) October 14, 2025

TO REPEAT, WHEN HAS THE WOKE LEFT TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING?

Woke Left: ‘He’s the new Hitler.’ https://t.co/Od8ixpysII

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 13, 2025

WELL, YES:

Awards that have lost their credibility due to woke:

The Oscars
The Pulitzer
The Emmys
And now the Nobel Peace Prize

These are nothing but Leftist awards given to Leftist activists by Leftist elites who want to celebrate Leftism https://t.co/7NLPxWHyAz

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 13, 2025

HAHA:

I will be voting for JD Vance when he runs.

Period, end of story. pic.twitter.com/f0cHDilCT8

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) October 13, 2025

Brother, he’s signing Middle East deals while your state worries about letting dudes into girls’ bathrooms.

Maybe consider sitting this one out. https://t.co/glTzVrYAJI

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 13, 2025

WORST HITLER EVER: Netanyahu Nominates Trump to Become the First Non-Israeli to Win the Nation’s Highest Award.

JOHN LUCAS: What is the true story behind why the NJ gubernatorial candidate was prohibited from participating in the graduation ceremony for her Naval Academy class? “Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat congresswoman and candidate for the New Jersey governorship, is under fire for serious ethical lapses. One of those is her still unexplained but suspicious involvement in a widespread cheating scandal at the Naval Academy. She still refuses to provide a full public accounting, by stonewalling any release of USNA’s disciplinary records that would show the nature and extent of both her and her husband’s involvement in the cheating scandal.”

IF YOU WANT PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR: Donald Trump Gave War a Chance—and It Worked.

Related:

Former hostage Omer Shem Tov says Hamas was "very scared of" Trump: "They wanted Kamala to be elected."

"As soon as Donald Trump was elected, they understood that he wanted to bring us back home," he added. "So immediately, the way they treated me changed" pic.twitter.com/Mazc9shpfU

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 13, 2025