DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: US colleges slash tuition by tens of thousands as families balk at sky-high sticker prices.

The Post identified at least a dozen colleges and universities that have cut or announced cuts to tuition or required program fees this year, with several private schools chopping published undergraduate prices by roughly 40% to more than 50%.

Emory & Henry University in Virginia cut tuition roughly in half to $19,990 this fall, while Arizona’s Prescott College lowered on-campus undergraduate tuition 55.8%, from $33,960 to $15,000.

The University of Tulsa plans to cut undergraduate tuition and university fees from $54,000 to $25,000 in fall 2027 — a $29,000, or 53.7%, reduction.

Coe College in Iowa will drop tuition from $58,780 to $31,850 for 2027-28, while Montana’s Carroll College will cut tuition and general undergraduate fees from $44,712 to $26,800.

Just a preview of things to come as foretold by the prophet.

INCENTIVES:

NOT SO FUN FACT: Universities can avoid Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and Medicare payroll taxes on qualifying J-1 researchers who are nonresidents for tax purposes.

— Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito (@USLaborIG) October 5, 2026

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT: Now THIS Would Be Fun: Kennedy Is Considering a Run for President! “No, not the MAHA guy, and not, thank God, one of the gaggle of off-putting leftists that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is unfortunate enough to have as his relatives. No, the Kennedy who may be running for president this time is none other than the most riotously funny man in the Senate, Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.), who is no relation to the famous Massachusetts family, either in bloodline or political outlook.”

He’s also one of the few naturally funny personalities on Capitol Hill.

MAKES SENSE:

Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK,…

— Dan Rivers (@danriversitv) October 5, 2026

THAT WAS A DIFFERENT AND STILL VERY CONFIDENT BRITAIN: The Day Britain Conquered Pop Culture — Twice. “It’s hard to avoid the ‘British Invasion’ when you’re talking about the pop culture of the early ’60s, and two of the longest-lasting aspects of that phenomenon launched on this day 64 years ago. October 5 is officially ‘James Bond Day,’ and it’s also the anniversary of the Beatles’ first major single, ‘Love Me Do.'”

GO AWAY: People’s Republic of Boulder Wants To Run Your Energy Policy.

At stake before SCOTUS is whether that town gets to set energy policy for the rest of America. That’s the real question in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, no matter how carefully supporters dress it up.

In 2018, the City of Boulder, Boulder County, and San Miguel County sued in Colorado state court arguing energy companies’ products fueled climate change and that the companies should cover whatever local costs these opportunistic politicians wanted.

Translation: Sell a legal product to willing customers around the world, and a county in Colorado can bill you for the weather.

Boulder insists it isn’t trying to regulate anyone’s emissions. One of its own lawyers forgot the script. David Bookbinder, who helped file the case for Boulder told a Federalist Society panel that tort liability is “an indirect carbon tax” and the lawsuit is “somewhat of a convoluted way to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”

Congress has refused to pass a carbon tax for decades because voters won’t stand for one. So the activists went shopping for a courtroom instead.

It would be insane to allow the country’s most activist communities hold the rest of the nation hostage.

CALIFORNIANS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET:

Under Newsom's administration, California is one of a small number of states that actually LOST population between 2020 and 2025.

Meanwhile, other states grew by 8% or more. pic.twitter.com/gycUmUvMfZ

— Soquel by the Creek (@SoquelCreek) October 5, 2026

Turns out, people don’t actually like taxes that much.

ICYMI: You’ll Never Believe How L.A.’s ‘Ambitious Effort’ to Fix Homelessness Totally Failed.

CRITICS DON’T CALL IT THE “STOP NICK SHIRLEY ACT” FOR NOTHIN’: New California Law Shields Taxpayer-Funded Entities.

An immigration activist group that receives substantial taxpayer funding helped push a California law creating new privacy protections for immigrant-service organizations, drawing criticism from watchdogs who say the measure will reduce transparency and public accountability.

AB 2624, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in August, extends a privacy program to immigrant-serving nonprofits, their staff, and volunteers, allowing them to acquire substitute addresses in public records rather than their home and business addresses. The law also bans anyone from posting information on the internet with the intent of enabling another person to threaten violence against an immigration support services provider.

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights — which received more than two-thirds of its revenue from government grants between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2025 — co-sponsored, testified in support of, and lobbied for the bill. CHIRLA, which operates an “immigrant political power project,” did not respond when asked whether it expects to apply for the protections in the bill.

Translation: They have applied or soon will apply.

SOMEBODY HIRE THIS KID ALREADY:

Speaking of speed…. one of the extreme home-brew rockers at BALLS this past weekend. I have never seen an airframe undress like that — the binder melted and the carbon fiber bunched down by the fins. Almost Mach 5. https://t.co/E38xuzEugj pic.twitter.com/zHj9aK0iaO

— Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson) October 4, 2026

Well, Elon?

GOOD LORD: FlyDubai Hijacker Wanted to Crash Into Tel Aviv Airport to Maximize Casualties.

SCOTUS: Samuel Alito warns ‘concerted’ effort to intimidate Supreme Court threatens its future. “There has been a concerted effort to intimidate the court and justices on the court to try to influence us to decide cases differently from the way in which we have been deciding them, and I am concerned about the future of the court. I think it’s an important institution.”

THAT’S CERTAINLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FROM HERE IN THE HEARTLAND:

An unambiguous case of consensual sex. The aftermath of the Cornell group sex episode is a peerless example of the hypocrisy of the feminist movement, which proclaims the oppressiveness of any remaining traces the chivalric code.

Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in… pic.twitter.com/qS5IKJJbdH

— Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) October 5, 2026

“Females deliberately drink themselves blotto in order to lower their sexual inhibitions, voluntarily participate in sex, and then, after the regrets set in, deny their agency and put exclusive responsibility for their drunken encounter on their male partner, on the grounds that they are helpless to take care of themselves.”

Heather’s City Journal report is from 2008, but hasn’t aged a day.

OUCH: Tom Cruise Just Dug Down to the Biggest Flop of His Career.

YOU KNOW YOU’VE REACHED PEAK ABSURDITY, OR CLOSE TO IT…:

And on one of the most left-wing colleges on the planet. https://t.co/ebU2YLfxia

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) October 5, 2026

…when the tenets of leftism require you to leave aside the linear nature of time.

THE ENEMY WITHIN / THE RETURN OF ASSASSINATION CHIC: Event at UC Berkeley mocking Charlie Kirk memorial draws scrutiny from State Department. “Spokesman Tommy Pigott told The College Fix in a statement via email that ‘people in the United States on visas are guests in this country, and we will not tolerate people here on visas who break our laws, support terrorism, or unlawfully incite violence, which ultimately led to the horrific assassination of an American.'”

I DON’T MEAN TO BE PUSHY MIKE, BUT GET TO IT!

When I'm fully unleashed and get to tell this story in detail, country by country, operation by operation, I don't think the world will ever view the history of the past decade the same way again. https://t.co/WBnGhnEvfV

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) October 5, 2026

HEH: Hilton Points Out He IS an Immigrant, Unlike Becerra.

“MAYBE A KETAMINE- AND ALCOHOL-FUELED GANGBANG ISN’T A GOOD IDEA, DEAR”:

Note that you will never see a liberal magazine asking mothers to talk to their college-age daughters about it. https://t.co/oPdMEkU933

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) October 5, 2026

GOOD LORD: Jack Smith team tracked Trump defense lawyers’ calls by monitoring his chief of staff’s phone. “Just the News reported last week that Smith obtained the phone records of several senators through a subpoena and secured a non-disclosure order from the court preventing the mobile carrier from notifying the lawmakers affected. One of those senators, Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., filed a lawsuit against Smith arguing his spying constituted an unauthorized intrusion into her civil rights.”

BY THE NUMBERS:

Here are some concerning crime data that won't be reported by the mainstream media:

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2024 report "Criminal Victimization," Whites are 46X more likely to be the victim of a violent crime by a Black offender than Blacks are to be the… pic.twitter.com/YJS6dLgO2R

— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) October 5, 2026

From the replies: “This is undoubtedly why so many law enforcement agencies, those led by leftists that is, repeatedly list arrestees that are CLEARLY black or Hispanic, as ‘white’ on official reports.”

CHANGE: Holy Moly! Nobody Expected What Just Happened in Brazil.

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS OBJECTIVELY PRO-TERROR:

The New York Times? Yeah I'm not even the least bit surprised. When that paper doesn't have a terrorist or a Communist to valorize it has no idea what to do with itself. https://t.co/LDKhkMXVWK

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 5, 2026

SOUND IT OUT: Musk says he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. “SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on Sunday that he would rename ​the company’s AI unit to SpaceXSI, ‌following US President Donald Trump’s push to use the term ‘super intelligence’ instead of ‘artificial intelligence.'”

Either that or he’s just bringing the sexy back. Again.

Musk is, after all, the man who brought us a car lineup named S, 3, X, Y.

IT’S REALLY BETTER ALL AROUND JUST TO NEVER ELECT SOCIALISTS IN THE FIRST PLACE:

🚨BREAKING: Pedro Sánchez dissolves Spanish parliament and announces early elections on November 29th

The socialist tyrant has fallen. pic.twitter.com/iMAjilB4FU

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 5, 2026