FASTER, PLEASE: Stem cell therapy shows promise at treating holes in retina.

WELL, THAT WOULD BE NICE: Could a single drug treat the two leading causes of death in the US: cancer and cardiovascular disease?

ERICK ERICKSON: Ignoring Biden’s Hurricane Incompetence. “Instead of prioritizing the response to stranded Americans in North Carolina, Biden and Harris were tweeting about the humanitarian crises in Lebanon and Ukraine.”

Plus: “If the victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina were black and the President was a Republican, national media reporters would be covering the government’s incompetent response with the epistemic vitriol they did following Katrina. Instead, we’re forced to rely on local reporters and updates from nonprofits like Samaritan’s Purse to understand what’s happening on the ground.”

Related:

WATCH 🤣

Peter Doocy laid out the facts on Hurricane Helene and caused Karine Jean-Pierre to immediately leave the press room pic.twitter.com/b9uNZceUCE

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 7, 2024

THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: The Internal Combustion Engine Is Not Dead: A global slump in sales is prompting automakers to rethink the rush to EVs.

SPACE: NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out.

FASTER PLEASE: Scientists develop mRNA vaccine that protects mice against intestinal C. difficile bacteria.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Sitting less helps stop back pain from getting worse.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “If a professor has said that he or she is personally pledged to adopt BDS and academic boycotts of Israel, we should insist that the rule that such a person may not serve as a dean, may not serve on hiring committees, may not serve on disciplinary committees, may not have any role in making decisions where they will have an opportunity to act on their stated principles and discriminate.”

WE WERE HAVING SUCH A NICE, QUIET HURRICANE SEASON: Hurricane Milton live updates: Now a monster Category 5 storm as Florida orders evacuations.

#RESIST: Trump, Vance Resist Efforts To ‘Memory Hole’ Assassination Attempts.

SO SOME PEOPLE — INCLUDING ME — HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT STARLINK ACTIVATING DIRECT-TO-CELL TECHNOLOGY FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS. Some phones, such as later model iPhones, have a limited “emergency” satellite capability already. But this T-mobile announcement and this Starlink page indicate that the new capability will work with any phone with LTE capabilities, which nowadays is nearly all of them, I believe. The Starlink page says: “Direct to Cell works with existing LTE phones wherever you can see the sky. No changes to hardware, firmware, or special apps are required, providing seamless access to text, voice, and data.”

Rolling out text this week, voice and data were scheduled for 2025, though that pace may be accelerated now. Impressive stuff.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: One year after 10/7 attacks and Democrat-run states have let antisemitism fester: Antisemitism is a big problem for blue states where protesters celebrate ‘death to Israel.’ “October 7th was the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. Hamas invaded Israel, murdering people at random, raping, destroying homes and kidnapping people back to Gaza. There are more than 100 still held hostage, including four Americans. Raw and hurting, American Jews watched the streets of U.S. cities fill up with crowds. The people in the streets weren’t marching to stand with the slaughtered and the raped. They were gleeful, exuberant and there were many of them.”

Plus:

The ADL is a left-leaning Jewish organization, and yet they admit, “On a per capita basis, the states with the highest concentration of antisemitic incidents were New Jersey – with 8.93 incidents per 100,000 residents – followed by Vermont (6.64), Massachusetts (6.28), New York (6.23), Maryland (5.49) and Connecticut (5.09). On the city level, two cities – Manhattan (26.84 per 100,000) and Washington, D.C. (25.75 per 100,000) – stood out with far and away the highest levels of incidents per capita. Brookyln [sic], NY, stood out specifically in terms of physical assault incidents, with 1.16 assaults per 100,000 residents.” Again, all deep blue states and cities.

Why is Blue America such a cesspit of hatred and violence?

Related: “We expected Hamas to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate it.”

DIVERSITY PROJECT: Brown U. employees gave over 225 times more $$ to Harris/Biden than Trump.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Columbia updates policy to define race-neutral practices as discriminatory.

DONALD TRUMP: THE SALENA ZITO INTERVIEW. Trump on not letting anything get in the way of unfinished business.

Former President Donald Trump set the tone for the final stretch of the presidential race when he took to the stage here in Butler, turning away from the crowd for the briefest of seconds, just as he did 12 weeks ago, and said, “As I was saying.”

Starting where he left off on July 13 before he was shot.

Those four words told everyone, perhaps even more so than when he raised his fist toward the crowd shouting, “Fight, Fight, Fight,” that he was a man who was not going to be knocked down, and was willing to leave everything on the field to take care of unfinished business in the White House.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner before the rally, Trump was somber in explaining how important it was to him to honor the family of Corey Comperatore, the former volunteer fire chief who was killed during the shooting in July. . . .

Like East Palestine, Ohio, just 30 miles as the crow flies west, the people who live here in Butler are often anywhere from fourth to ninth-generation residents who would not care to live anywhere else. They are also often forgotten by the people in the national media, corporations, government, and academia, who view their sense of place as the “middle of nowhere.”

Trump says it is important to him to show up in places like Butler, but also in East Palestine, as he did a couple of weeks after a Norfolk Southern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, causing an environmental disaster.

The former president showed up that day, walking through the entire village through pounding sleet and mud, bringing crates of water bottles and buying hamburgers from the local McDonalds for the workers.

Read the whole thing.

CHANGE:

SpaceX and @TMobile have been given emergency special temporary authority by the @FCC to enable @Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability to provide coverage for cell phones in the affected areas of Hurricane Helene.

The satellites have already been enabled and…

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 6, 2024

UPDATE:

NEWS: SpaceX engineer Mike Coryell, who has been with the company for 10 years, has spent the past week in North Carolina.

He says they have already deployed over 1,000 Starlink kits in the valley, with each deployment enabling 10x more people to communicate. So far, they've… pic.twitter.com/A9nikFI1bg

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) October 6, 2024

ICYMI, MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Schrodinger’s Election.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: I have spent the last year angry at Jews. What if Jews don’t wake up?

Note this comment from Jeffrey Carter, to this weekend’s “Schrodinger’s Election” essay: “I have a lot of 70s something men in my country club, many of them Jewish. They are voting Kamala. The 1960s/70s haven’t left their souls yet. The men in their 60s and lower, voting Trump. It’s an interesting divide.”

HE PERSONIFIES THE ARROGANCE, NARCISSISM, AND INCOMPETENCE OF OUR “EXPERT” CLASS: Anthony Fauci, the Man Who Thought He Was Science.

SO SOMEBODY’S HAVING FUN IN THIS ELECTION, AND IT’S NOT KAMALA:

BREAKING: Elon Musk spotted at the Steelers game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ATTYhCfJDe

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 7, 2024

WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY LITERALLY DID. MORE THAN ONCE.

And there it is. He’s accusing his political opponents of trying to kill him. He’s telling his voters that those of us who oppose him politically are trying to kill him. He’s using the assassination attempt to incite his voters to violence. There is no bottom with him. https://t.co/S4yZRDbejC

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) October 5, 2024

I remember when Joe Walsh wasn’t a lying moron. Or, at least, he wasn’t making it obvious.

WALZ A LAUGHINGSTOCK? YES, BUT HE’S MUCH, MUCH WORSE: “I don’t suppose Walz is actually the Manchurian Candidate, but his admiration for Communist China is both obvious and bizarre. Who, after all, would choose the China of 1994 as a honeymoon destination? And go there another 30 times?”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin to debut 2nd human-rated New Shepard rocket on Oct. 7 launch.

DONALD TRUMP AND FRANKLIN GRAHAM talk about North Carolina and disaster relief.