TERRORISTIC THREATS: Chuck Todd Implies Air Traffic Controllers Might Crash Planes Unless Sec. Duffy Is Nicer to Them.

TRUE:

I was a huge skeptic of Kushner in 2017. I didn't think he belonged anywhere near government, especially foreign affairs. I was very wrong.

He's already the most accomplished & effective American diplomat of the 21st century by a long shot. https://t.co/hiX5gcTqNL

— Mike Coté (@ratlpolicy) October 9, 2025

MORONS CAN’T SEE: “Many Democrats still cannot see how their legal aggression against Trump during his four years out of power set the stage for the dangerous revenge tour on which he is now embarked.”

SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY:

Journalist Nick Shirley tells Donald Trump he has personally been on the ground for Antifa protests in America and overseas in the UK

– He’s seen the exact same protest signs used in America as overseas
– He has physically seen the exact same protesters getting off busses in… pic.twitter.com/SzEu7XQdQH

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 9, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Make it March.

ROADMAP TO ACCOUNTABILITY:

A month ago, @DataRepublican put together a profile of one of Antifa's most active international funding networks. All of this activity is now subject to potential felony charges. The feds need to start somewhere, and they might as well start here. https://t.co/W4pPmi9rNW

— Lomez (@L0m3z) October 9, 2025

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

They opened a door that will never be closed again. https://t.co/pGS7A9oAgw

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 9, 2025

I REMEMBER WHEN THEY WERE JUST SPECULATION: 6,000 and counting: The next 30 years in the search for exoplanets.

INSURRECTION! Chicago Mayor Calls for the Arrest of ICE Officers. “Ironically, Johnson has declared that President Donald Trump wants a “rematch of the Civil War.” However, it is Johnson who is pursuing antebellum policies. It was the South that claimed independence from the Union and fought to expel federal troops.”

WE ARE THE GREAT OLD ONES: Humans May Be Among The First Intelligent Beings in The Universe.

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE CENTURY OF ANTI-OBESITY DRUGS: Scientists Find Hidden Switch Controlling Hunger.

SCIENCE: Researchers identify link between rectal bleeding, colon cancer.

ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT WEED WAS HARMLESS: Over 40% of Fatal Crash Drivers Had THC in Their Blood – Far Above Legal Limits.

EV FUN: We Drove Telo’s Tiny 500-HP Electric Truck, and We Have Some Suggestions.

IT’S BECOME A DICTATORSHIP: Wrongthink: Australia Confiscating Guns of Those Who Don’t Recognize Government Authority.

EH, WHO HASN’T? These freaky fish use their forehead teeth to have better sex.

NOW OUT: From Jimmy Hawkins, who played Tommy Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life: The Heart of It’s a Wonderful Life: How the Most Inspirational Movie of All Time Still Inspires the Spirit.

EXERCISE: Physical exercise can ‘train’ the immune system.

LET’S FIND THEM SOONER IN THE FUTURE, EH? Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet.

SCIENCE: Study finds link between inflammation and fatigue in cancer patients.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Should I just lock in and save anal sex for marriage? Like, I’ve made it this far. There are few sexual firsts my husband will get to experience with me, so should I save him this?”

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS? New poll: Students say free speech matters until someone says something offensive.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northeastern to celebrate ‘sexual liberation’ with free Plan B, ‘anti-fascist’ dance party.

THEY’RE NOT AGAINST PEOPLE BEING SHOT, IF IT’S THE RIGHT PEOPLE GETTING SHOT:

Jay Jones is endorsed by… Giffords PAC. Yeah, it's the PAC you think it is. pic.twitter.com/VaPpknr59h

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 9, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL: Trump knows personnel is policy. Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes.

“Personnel is policy.” As far as I have been able to discover, that slogan gained currency in the Reagan administration. But it articulates a truth that political thinkers from Aristotle to Machiavelli to James Madison appreciated. The first line of Article II of the Constitution reads: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” That’s “a President.” Only one. Not “a President and a bunch of district court judges.” Not “a President and sundry federal agencies staffed by unaccountable bureaucrats.”

Over the course of many decades, the sublimely uncluttered principle articulated at the beginning of Article II has been undermined and stymied, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, by what we have come to call the administrative state. What is the administrative state? It is difficult to take precise measure of this amorphous, protean, self-engorging organism. But one salient characteristic is its habit of substituting judicial intervention for constitutional principle.

“Personnel is policy.” Does the President have the authority to hire and fire his agents and underlings? The Constitution says yes. The administrative state, supported by a battalion of liberal judges and scrambling litigants, says “not so fast.”

As I write, the Trump administration is contending with some 300 lawsuits. Many have to do with agencies he wishes to trim or abolish, previously appropriated funds he wishes to divert or sequester, employees he wishes to fire. So far, the Supreme Court has, if in somewhat piecemeal fashion, mostly sided with Trump. The executive, the Court has recognized, ought to be allowed to execute, viz “to carry out or put into effect a plan, order, or course of action.” Inherent in that power is the President’s prerogative of “making the best possible appointments.” Why? because personnel is policy. Agents of the administrative state also understand this principle. It’s just that they believe that power, or at least large swaths of it, should rest with them, not the President. They do not have the Constitution on their side. But they do have a litany of legal decisions which have accumulated like barnacles on the hull of the ship of state, rotting its timbers, impeding its progress.

More like teredo worms, but yeah.