HMM: One Type of Fiber May Have Weight Loss Benefits Similar to Ozempic. “The findings align with another recent study by Duca, which fed barley flour, rich in beta-glucan, to rodents. Even though the rats continued eating just as much of their high-fat diet as before, their energy expenditure increased and they lost weight anyway. A similar outcome was observed in mice fed beta-glucan in the new study. These animals also showed increased concentrations of butyrate in their guts, which is a metabolite made when microbes break down fiber. Butyrate induces the release of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which is the natural protein that synthetic drugs like Ozempic mimic to stimulate insulin release.”

FASTER, PLEASE: UCLA Scientists Discover Protein That Repairs Heart Damage.

JUSTICE TO A COLLEAGUE IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN NOT HELPING TRUMP:

Update: The @stanford faculty senate, by a single vote, decided to punt the vote to rescind the 2020 censure of Scott Atlas until next month.

The reason? Some faculty argued that rescinding the censure will send a political signal in favor of Trump in the upcoming election.… https://t.co/hNeKFitX4Z

— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) October 25, 2024

FREDDIE DE BOER: Who Says Another Google is Coming? “Why has AI hype been so overwhelming? I’ve argued that, at the bottom of this strange moment, there’s a broad desire to be freed from the mundane. AI sounds like something that might relieve us from the burden of living in boring reality, and that’s an attractive notion even for people living generally contented lives. . . . Another big driver of AI hype, though, is the recent investment environment. . . . Tech is a very mature field now, and despite startup mythology, what tech startups are trying to do now is often capital-intensive. The free money spigot has been turned off. There’s no law of nature that says another Google or Facebook is going to appear out of the mist and offer you an opportunity for pre-IPO investment. And yet a quick perusal of the ‘hockey stick growth’ search term on Twitter reveals how many people are chasing this dream.”

HMM: Simple test helps gauge signs of aging in people 50 and over. “Folks over 50 who can stand on one leg for 30 seconds are aging gracefully, particularly if it’s not their strong leg, a new study finds.”

#BIDENFLATION: 2025 Lincoln Navigator Gets Way More Expensive, Starts at $101,990.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: More Support For Challenges To New Massachusetts Gun Law.

WAPO WON’T ENDORSE KAMALA, LEFTIES FURIOUS:

On the other hand they really could just think Kamala Harris is that bad.

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 25, 2024

Kamala Harris – "He's Hitler

Washington Post – "Yeah we've thought about it and we're still not going to endorse you over Hitler. Sorry."

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) October 25, 2024

They won’t endorse Kamala Harris, but they think her girlfriend-slapping husband is super sexy. pic.twitter.com/wgu33mQJR9

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) October 25, 2024

The closing dozen days of Trump being called a Nazi has a 2016 feel to it

What’s new: his supporters are pushing back with a testimonial video of an Auschwitz survivor who backs him https://t.co/OttJVNUn8U

— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) October 25, 2024

FASTER, PLEASE: Low-cost, portable device can detect colorectal and prostate cancer in an hour.

I KINDA LIKE THAT RULE, TBH: Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule: Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling.

How about making them not want to cancel by giving them better service at better prices? I know, that’s crazy talk.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Cyprus signs NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming 46th nation to commit to safe space exploration.

HMM: Nutritional supplements with curcumin could curb macular degeneration, study suggests.

PUSHBACK:

🚨BREAKING: I filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to investigate the federal agency’s intimidation of businessman Elon Musk over his voter registration program that performs outreach to supporters of First and Second… pic.twitter.com/vaP7lTMLuC

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 25, 2024

TRUE:

When the bill for all the free stuff comes in there'll be a lot of recriminations.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 24, 2024

AMERICAN MEDIA BASICALLY WON’T TOUCH IT BUT BRITISH PAPERS WILL: Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff slapped me in the face so hard I spun around … I’m disgusted by his fake ‘perfect spouse’ persona.

The woman, a successful New York attorney, is remaining anonymous, but decided to speak out after Emhoff, Kamala Harris’s husband, denied the claims through a spokesman.

Emhoff’s accuser, who DailyMail.com is naming only as ‘Jane’, initially declined to comment on the record. But Emhoff’s denial, and his alleged hypocrisy by claiming to be a feminist in media interviews, finally became too much for her.

‘What’s frightening for a woman that’s been on the other end of it, is watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,’ Jane said.

‘He’s being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking.’

That’s Kamala’s whole campaign in a nutshell.

And there is one American outlet willing to cover this.

COLLUSION: Universities should ‘prevent outsiders’ from accessing data, ASU prof says after Harris campaign texts students.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Republican senators call for answers from AG Garland, FBI director Wray about potential SJP ties to Hamas, Iran.

WELL, GIVEN THE DEMOCRATS’ DIVISIVE, INCITEFUL RHETORIC, THAT MAKES SENSE: Many expect post-election violence, most blame media.

COLLUSION: Chinese Drone Firm Suing Pentagon Is Represented by Former Obama AG Loretta Lynch.

FUN:

Only President Trump would make a random visit to a Cuban restaurant in Las Vegas and there would be a cutout with him in a sombrero 🤣 pic.twitter.com/s7x8gx3PKD

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 25, 2024

STANDING UP AGAINST BIGOTRY, AND IN FAVOR OF DIVERSITY: Conservative Federal Judge Urges Donors To Withhold Gifts Until Law Schools Hire Ideologically Diverse Faculty And Teach Originalism.

THIS HAS BEEN THE ERA OF UNMASKING:

Where does one go to wash this off? To unsee what has already been seen? Find forgiveness and new beginnings instead of just "moving on"?

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 24, 2024

ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR SPACEX: NASA’s Crew-8 returns to Earth, successfully splashing down into Atlantic. “The four-member SpaceX Crew-8 aboard Crew Dragon Endeavour returned to Earth early Friday, completing their nearly eight-month mission in space. Their Endeavour spacecraft splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida near Pensacola at 3:39 a.m. EDT, after undocking from the International Space Station some 34 hours earlier.”

YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE! BEGONE, BEFORE SOMEBODY DROPS A HOUSE ON YOU, TOO: Witches on Reddit Panicking Over Lack of Power Over Trump. “This isn’t satire, by the way; this was a real thread on Reddit.”

Well, we’ve seen this before.

KAMALA HARRIS’S CAMPAIGN, TRAFFICKING IN STEREOTYPES TO GET ELECTED:

And maybe in the Philadelphia area, among black residents, they still speak of “empathy” by calling it “the nature of a female.” But all of us can see this ad. And to me, it seems as though the Harris campaign looks upon black men as sexist — Obama let it show the other day — and wants to meet them where they are and is therefore calling women “females” and describing their “nature” in old-fashioned, stereotypical terms — “empathy, that’s just, like, in their heart, the nature of a female.”

But nobody wants an aunt like Kamala, or sees her as nurturing or empathetic. Least of all her constantly shat-upon underlings.