TAKING DISCRIMINATION TO COURT: King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit By Straight, White Female Over Summer Associate Diversity Fellowship Program.

THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING LATINOS: “Lest the headline seems a tad bit confusing, we’re not discussing Latino voters in the United States who have begun vanishing without a trace, perhaps being sucked up into some sort of premature Rapture falling across the land. These voters are not disappearing entirely. They are simply no longer showing up in the polls as supporters of Kamala Harris the way they traditionally have turned out for other Democrats.”

IT’S NOT A KATRINA MOMENT UNLESS THE PRESS DOGPILES YOU: Trump, Republicans Attack Biden and Harris for Slow Federal Response to Appalachia Storm Damage: Search-and-rescue operations are underway following what some residents of the region are calling Appalachia’s own ‘Katrina moment.’

YES: The Killing of Nasrallah—and the Virtue of Escalation. The best way to end a regional war is to win it.

“Escalation managers” work to prolong a war. Why?

Related:

Did Israel just free the Lebanese people from Irans grip? Saw a lot of celebrating yesterday in Syria as well … Iran looming over the Middle East may be coming to an end.

— CICADAOSN (@CICADAOSN) September 28, 2024

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Catastrophe in my Geographical Homeland: Reports from the western Carolinas.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

THE NEW (COMMERCIAL) SPACE RACE: Iridium approved to work on LEO compatibility for upcoming smartphones.

IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, WHICH IS WHY IT WORKS: Not A Placebo: Study Finds Meditation Offers Genuine Pain Relief.

CHANGE: Austria’s Freedom Party secures first far-right national election win since World War II. “The far right has benefited from frustration over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. It has also built on worries about migration.”

Th establishment keeps screwing up, but it’s always some variation on “far-right pounces.”

ATKINS/KETO PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS: IBS Relief: Cutting Sugar and Starch Rivals FODMAP Diet in Effectiveness.

UNAFRAID, OR AT LEAST UNCOWED:

There have been two assassination attempts on this man in the past three months and he walks into a stadium full of 100,000 people like a boss.

Next week he’s returning to the site where he was shot.

Total badass.

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— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) September 29, 2024

SEEMS TO BE A GROWING MARKET: FDA approves new schizophrenia drug.

BRYAN CAPLAN: Against Censorship and Its Academic Supporters.

THOSE GERMANS AND THEIR SHODDY WORK ETHIC: Tesla CEO Elon Musk Investigating High Absenteeism Rates At German Factory. Hey, given what’s happened to Germany this century . . . .

LIKE MEDICAL RESEARCH GENERALLY: Clinical cancer research in the US is increasingly dominated by pharmaceutical industry sponsors, study finds.

NATURE: These fish use legs to taste the seafloor.

A SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: Gov. Newsom vetoes Calif. bill requiring health warning labels on gas stoves.

TRUE:

All Trump supporters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan must start chasing ballots and knocking on doors immediately.

— Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) September 28, 2024

Plus:

Tim Walz got booed at the Michigan game🤣

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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 28, 2024

Related: Kamala’s Attempted Troll of Trump at Alabama Game Fails Miserably, While Trump Is Cheered Wildly.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Zero Republican professors found in six humanities departments at UNC Chapel Hill.

“EMPTY AND THOUGHTLESS RHETORIC:” UNL has several ‘land acknowledgments’ apologizing for American history.

THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: White House Report Card: Total failure by Mr. Potato Head as US becomes irrelevant. “This week’s White House Report Card may be the worst yet for President Joe Biden and his administration, a rare double ‘F’ from our conservative and Democratic graders.”

YEP.

Appalachia gets ignored a lot. https://t.co/h4w3OHPnYL

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 29, 2024

NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA, IT’S NOT ENOUGH: ‘Father Figure’: Mainstream Media Eulogize Hezbollah Butcher Nasrallah, Who Slaughtered Innocents Across the Globe: ‘Nasrallah was seen as a father figure, a moral compass and a political guide,’ writes WaPo.

Well, to be fair, he wasn’t a Republican.

DON’T TAKE ANY CRAP FROM LEFTISTS:

Little Macron 🇫🇷 started a fight with the Italian PM @GiorgiaMeloni 🇮🇹, so she wiped the floor with him 👇 pic.twitter.com/PpWtUh0QMQ

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) September 27, 2024

FLASHBACK: After Millions of Dollars Spent and Hundreds of New Lane Miles Built, Bike Ridership Is Down Across America.