NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Cheapest Sports Cars You Can Buy for 2025.

SALES: Tesla’s Reportedly Massive Cybertruck Backlog Appears To Have Vanished.

WELL, GOOD: Desalination system adjusts itself to work with renewable power.

SPACE: SpaceX launches OneWeb 20 mission.

LESS-THAN-SHOCKING NEWS FROM SCIENCE: Cancer diagnosis can take devastating toll on family finances.

WELL, THEY’RE NOT RUNNING A TOP-NOTCH OPERATION OVER THERE: There’s Something Odd About the Harris Campaign’s Response to Trump’s McDonald’s Visit. “Does anything about this post stand out to you? The first thing I noticed is that it came from Tim Walz, not Harris. Why is that? Harris is the one who claims to have worked at McDonald’s, yet she’s conspicuously silent on the matter. Walz, her running mate, is the one stepping in to make the noise. . . . The absence of such a direct response from Harris raises a lot of questions. It would have been much more effective if Kamala herself responded by saying, ‘Trump pretended to work at a McDonald’s; I actually worked there, yada, yada, yada.’ Last month, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle asked Kamala, ‘At any point in your life have you served two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun working at a McDonald’s?’ Kamala awkwardly laughed and nervously clasped her hands together and said, “I have,” but that was before Snopes fact-checked the claim and called it unproven.”

THAT’S JUST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORY: Stating the Patently Obvious: Lithium Ion Battery Fires Are a Problem.

PIERS MORGAN: Trump’s genius McDonald’s stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box.

HENRY OLSEN: Getting a Handle on the Hispanic Vote: Hispanic voters are more complicated and diverse than polling results suggest.

ROGER SIMON: Will Israel Save Western Civilization? The Real Housewives of Gaza.

One way of saving Western Civilization is to kill the people trying to destroy it. That approach was put virtually off limits for a while — through the efforts of those trying to destroy it, mostly — but it appears to be surprisingly effective.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: College sports official still learning ‘science’ of trans athletes.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Donor sends funds to Israeli schools that were once meant for UPenn due to anti-Semitism concerns.

HMM: 15% Through The Fall 2025 Law School Admissions Season: Applicants Are Up 25% (Black Applicants Are Up 45%).

It looked a few years ago as if law schools were in a permanent decline, but not yet, if ever. And we were told that the Supreme Court’s afffirmative action opinion would discourage blacks from even applying to schools.

MAYBE THE NAVY SHOULD THINK ABOUT SINKING SHIPS — I MEAN, OTHER PEOPLE’S, NOT ITS OWN — INSTEAD: No Time for Woke Name Games at Sea.

THE PROBLEM IS, SHE’S NOT SO SURE THAT WAS A GOOD THING: The Washington Post Editorial Board pushes Kamala Harris to pay attention to the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. “Is this an issue the people are clamoring for attention to be paid to? Donald Trump paid attention to it… a year and a half ago. He thought about it on his own and made a dignified speech detailing his multi-part plan for a full-year celebration. So for the WaPo editors to bring this up is to put pressure only on Kamala Harris. Is she supposed to jump at their prodding? There’s zero hope of her sounding sincere responding to this one-sided demand.”

Plus: “Nearing the end, the historian comes out with: ‘[N]ow that I think of it, why not wear the hat and fly the flag?’ Well, for one thing, flying a U.S. flag at your house is regarded as equivalent to having a Trump yard sign. . . . So you and your fellow historians devoted yourself to telling the ‘darker story’ and now, as the people look to celebrate a big birthday, you are worried that they aren’t going frame the event around your dark story but will look to the kind of characters — the ‘darker forces’ — that you’ve been disparaging all these years? People are drawn to the good — to an uplifting idea of what the country means — and you see that very optimism as an embrace of the darkness.”

WHY, INDEED? Why Are Parts From Federal Agency Guns Turning Up in Crime Scene Weapons?

WORST WEEK SO FAR: White House Report Card: Worst week of the Biden-Harris presidency.

THEY’RE BAD PEOPLE, BUT I WISH THEM LUCK: Anti-Israel Group ‘Abandon Harris’ Expands into Battlegrounds Wisconsin and Georgia ‘To Ensure Kamala Harris Loses the Swing States.’

DON SURBER: Democrat senators for Trump: They voted against him in two impeachments. Now they suck up to him.

WELL, OKAY THEN: Tim Walz Says He Won’t Help His Mother Buy Groceries: She Depends on the Government.

THE EXHAUSTION OF THE WEST: Joel Kotkin: Can the West survive four years of Harris or Trump? Neither candidate is capable of restoring America’s faith in itself.

OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.

GOOD NEWS FOR SPACEX: U.S. government eases export controls on space technologies. “The changes would reclassify many space technologies as commercial items rather than weapons, removing commercial satellites from the U.S. Munitions List that is regulated under the highly restrictive International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and placing them under the more flexible Commerce Control List.”

SO HEAT-TOLERANT ORGANISMS BETTER TOLERATE HEAT? Heat-Tolerant Corals Can Better Survive Marine Heatwaves, Study Shows.

HMM: Unlocking the Future of Solar Cells: Scientists Discover Key to Stable Perovskites.