WELL, HE’S NOT WRONG: Bill Clinton’s Closing Pitch in Michigan: Hamas Is Awful and the Israelis Were There First.

WELL, MARK CUBAN: Mark Cuban: Women Who Support Trump Are Weak and Stupid.

COVERING FOR ANTI-SEMITES: ‘Best Strategy Is To Keep Heads Down’: Schumer Advised Columbia’s Leaders To Ignore Anti-Semitism Backlash, Saying Their ‘Problems Are Really Only Among Republicans.’

OPEN THREAD: Hang on baby, Friday’s coming.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA updates list of Artemis 3 landing sites.

SHOCKER: In a First, Scientists Found Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Discover Common Eye Medication Could Outsmart Alzheimer’s.

SEEMS LIKE IT’S USUALLY A VEGETABLE: CDC confirms onions caused McDonald’s E. coli outbreak.

#VANLIFE: Our Yearlong 2024 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter AWD Is Kind of a Pain in the Ass.

SURPRISE: Media Portrays Dead Teen as Shooting Victim, Only to Learn He was the Aggressor.

PEOPLE HAVE LAUGHED AT ME WHEN I SAID ANDROID IS LESS SECURE: Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy: FakeCall malware can reroute calls intended for banks to attacker-controlled numbers.

THERE’S A LOT OF GOOD PUBLICITY ABOUT THESE DRUGS: Semaglutide linked to reduced arthritis knee pain in people with obesity, study finds.

SKINNYCONOMICS: Will the anti-obesity wonder drugs work wonders for the US economy? Unlike artificial intelligence, the impact of GLP-1 medications may already be happening in a big way.

THIS HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR A WHILE, BUT GOOD: Muscles can bounce back despite weeks-long weight training breaks.

NICK GILLESPIE: Occupy Wall Street & Fake Campus Progressivism: Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke demystifies how elites maintain their position–and why more working-class Black and Latino voters support Trump.

PUHLEEZ. IT’S NOT A CRIME, OR EVEN A “HATE” CRIME, OR EVEN RACIST. San Diego State U. investigates white students dressed up as Diddy and bottle of baby oil. And it’s clearly established that “blackface” is protected by the First Amendment, and any university administrator who punishes someone for that will forfeit qualified immunity.

The real crime is reminding people that someone that celebrities and politicians hobnobbed with for many years was a predator. Which keeps turning out the be the case.

AN AWFUL LOT OF WHITE WOMEN IN THIS CROWD, AS USUAL: Meet the 11 anti-Israel agitators arrested after occupying a University of Minnesota building.

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO: “This is pre-postmortem. They know it’s lost.”

Plus: Pre-postmortem, Part 2: “Democrats start to point fingers even as they hope for Harris win.”

But don’t get cocky.

IMPRISONING DISSIDENTS OFTEN BACKFIRES: A serene Steve Bannon says his stint in the slammer was ‘empowering.’ He was released yesterday from the federal prison where he was incarcerated as a political prisoner for the last four months.

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and host of the War Room podcast, was released from FCI Danbury, the federal prison where he was incarcerated as a political prisoner for the last four months Tuesday. His tort? The same thing that Eric Holder and Merrick Garland were guilty of: refusing to respond to a Congressional subpoena. Neither Holder nor Garland were indicted or incarcerated, of course, because neither supports Donald Trump.

That was Bannon’s real outrage: supporting the man whom Kamala Harris describes as “literally Hitler” and a “fascist” and whose supporters Joe Biden just described as “garbage.”

About 100 Karens of all sexes crowded into a suite at Lowe’s Regency Hotel on Park Avenue to preen, scold and attempt to play Gotcha! with a man who quietly ran circles around them all. You said nasty things about Elon Musk in the past and now you support him: how do you explain that?

Bannon pointed out that Musk has undergone a process of political maturation, something that the Karen in question only blinked at.

Buzz, buzz, buzz. There they all were, the rancid Lilliputians from the AP, the Washington Post, Daily Beast, the Bulwark: what about January 6? Who does he think won the 2020 election? Will he respect the results of the 2024 election? Etc., etc.

They were pathetic, but Bannon was serene and forthright, explaining that his stint in the slammer had been an “empowering” experience. He spent much of his timing tutoring about 100 fellow prisoners, mostly non-violent drug offenders, in civics, a subject the hostile crybullies of the press might profit from.

Bannon described how the focus of politics was moving from race through gender and was just about to settle on the critical issue of money. The reason that support for Donald Trump is soaring among blacks and Hispanics is that they understand his populist message. They remember the manifold economic successes of his first term: the tax cuts, the historically low unemployment, the rising wages, especially at the lower end of the scale, the ethic of MAGA.

Stay tuned.

JOHN LUCAS: Should I Have Criticized Some of the Jokes at Trump’s MSG Rally for Being in Bad Taste? The Dems talked me out of it.

HE WON’T. ON THE OTHER HAND, A COUPLE OF MY LAW STUDENTS WERE CONVINCED TODAY THAT IF KAMALA WINS SHE’LL JAIL ELON MUSK. Stop pretending Trump will send journalists to gulag.

But in this country it’s Democrats who put their enemies in concentration camps. Just ask FDR.

THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Volkswagen Hits the Net-Zero Wall: The German company’s layoffs and pay cuts are a warning to America about Biden-Harris climate policies. “An October surprise for the U.S. election may have arrived this week—in Germany. Word that Volkswagen could close three vehicle factories, cut 10,000 jobs and impose steep across-the-board pay reductions is a warning for Americans about the peril of Biden-Harris climate policy. The news was communicated to workers on Monday by the head of the company’s labor-relations council, and to describe it as a shock to Europe’s largest economy is an understatement. Volkswagen Group employs some 300,000 in Germany with 10 factories for its flagship VW brand. It has avoided involuntary layoffs for three decades and hasn’t shuttered a factory in its home country in its 87-year history. . . . A bigger share of the blame lies with politicians, however, especially for their climate policies. Germany’s auto industry is trapped in a vise between higher energy prices that drive up the cost of production, and electric-vehicle mandates that drive down sales. VW is cracking under the pressure.”

ROGER SIMON’S ELECTION-INDUCED IDENTITY CRISIS: Am I a Nazi, Garbage, or Nazi Garbage?

INDEED: NATO Needs to Fix its German Problem: The USA has other priorities to attend to.

NATO was created to keep the Americans in, the Germans down, and the Russians out. They don’t like Americans anymore, the Germans seem to have largely conquered the EU, and the Russians can’t even make it through Ukraine; they’d splatter if they ran into Poland. So . . .

WELL, OF COURSE: A Big Clue Has Been Dropped About Who’s Behind Those Exploding Ballot Boxes; Be Ready for Election Chaos. “The mistake we must not make here is thinking that these are just some isolated incidences perpetrated by some leftist wackadoodle, or that the chaos will only be seen at drop-off ballot boxes in the PNW. We have more than a full year’s worth of proof that the pro-Hamas crowd is rage-filled, violent and intent on silencing and punishing those they see as their enemies. And there some is pretty solid evidence that they count Kamala Harris as one of their own.”