NEWS YOU CAN USE: What I Didn’t Learn In Special Forces: The military and the armed citizenry have two very different missions.

SPACE: In a rare disclosure, the Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane.

WELL. There could be 30,000 species of earthworms wriggling around the world.

FASTER, PLEASE: New nanotherapy targets artery inflammation in cardiovascular disease.

A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: District Court Rules New York’s Private Property Carry Ban Unconstitutional.

HOWARD WOLOWITZ SMILES: Robot finger might someday take your pulse, check for tumors.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mount Holyoke tells faculty to report ‘misgendering,’ ‘incorrect’ pronoun use.

CELEBRATING VIOLENCE: National Students for Justice in Palestine celebrates glider attack in ‘call to action’ image.

DON’T GET COCKY: Trump maintains 2-point lead for fifth straight week.

SPREADING MISINFORMATION: ‘Demonstration of Ignorance’: Anti-Israel Installation Riddled With Falsehoods Stands in Harvard Yard: ‘It shames Harvard and makes you wonder what is being taught, and what is being learned, in its classrooms today,’ Middle East scholar Elliott Abrams says.

I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE TOLD IT WAS GOOD TO PUNCH NAZIS. Columbia’s Student Protesters Really Have Embraced Hamas.

Of course, we always knew they didn’t mean Nazis, they meant Republicans. And now they’re embracing Nazi values.

JOHN LUCAS: The “National Security Leaders for America” Expose Themselves as Partisan Agents. Well, that’s been clear since at least 2016.

Be so-called “National Security Leaders for America” (NSL4A) have done it again. This time they have waded into state elections for national offices. They do so based upon the false representation that they are motivated purely by patriotism and an unblemished desire to protect the national security. They purport to be non-partisan.

Hogwash.

This article complements my article of October 6, “Fall in Line, You Proles,” which analyzed a letter from these self-proclaimed “National Security Leaders” trashing President Trump and endorsing Vice President Harris for president. In that article, I noted that although NSL4A holds itself out as non-partisan and motivated purely by nothing more than its members’ unblemished motives as American patriots, it is, in fact, a partisan organization.

Although NSL4A claims that its members are “Republicans, Democrats, and Independents,” that implication of non-partisanship is a sham. As I shall show below, their pretense to be mere “public servants” who are not loyal “to any one individual or party,” is not true. Then when they use that supposed neutral status to promote particular candidates, it is a fraud upon the American People to whom they address their letter.

A good old-fashioned Fisking follows.

FEMA HASN’T BEEN COMPETENT IN A LONG TIME, IF EVER. Double-Barreled Hurricane Crisis Exposes FEMA’s Chronic Leadership, Staffing Problems.

OPEN THREAD: Rock me like a hurricane.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Space policy for the new President — whoever it might be.

We’ve been very fortunate to have solid space policy over the past several administrations. I hope this continues.

HE USUALLY DOES WHEN IT’S HIM TALKING AND NOT HIS DETRACTORS CHARACTERIZING WHAT HE SAYS: “I think Trump comes across very positively, so thanks to The Washington Post for making this available.”

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: A Severe Solar Storm Is Expected to Strike Earth This Week.

HMM: Loneliness increases dementia odds by 31%, study finds. I remain skeptical about a lot of these correlational studies. I think it’s just about as likely that early aspects of dementia make people less sociable and hence lonelier.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee for Your Heart: The Regenerative Power of Caffeine on Vascular Health.

ABSURDLY AWESOME? 2024 Shelby Ford F-150 Baja Raptor First Look: Up to 900 HP and Ready To Conquer. I mean, this kind of capability in a pickup truck is absurd. But also kinda awesome.

WTF IS GOING ON HERE?

I didn’t have Lesbian Dorito Eucharist on my bingo card…

— Knut Vogel (@keksehexe) October 10, 2024

Seriously, is this real? And if so, why?

Related: “This is the weirdest s**t I have seen in politics.”

I did get the mockery of the communion. And apparently, as you can see at the link above, it is real, and meant to help Kamala’s campaign.

THE E.V. BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Fisker Abandoned Its SoCal Headquarters and Left Quite a Mess.

FAR MORE SIGNIFICANTLY, SO DOES ELON: NASA wants to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.

BREAK THEM UP: DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly: Google called the DOJ extending search remedies to AI “radical,” an “overreach.”

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Debt Doom Is Coming. Everybody Knows It. Nobody’s Doing Anything About It. Here’s How To Get Ready. (Bumped).

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