#RESIST: Don’t Look Now, but a Rebellious NYC Borough Is Winning the Fight Against Biden’s Illegal Hordes.

IT’S LIVE: Grab a Drink and Join Us for the 2nd GOP Presidential Primary Debate.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP [VIP]: The Legal Assault on the Trump Organization Is Far Worse Than You Think. “New York Democrats just imposed the ‘corporate death penalty’ on the Trump Organization. ‘It’s something that is almost never done.’ That’s the lead crazy on today’s Insanity Wrap, an entire week’s worth of the best bad news.”

Plus:

• Gavin Newsom’s newest assault on gun rights is two kinds of sinister.
• White people are mosquitos or don’t get bit by mosquitos or something bad like that because racism.
• What could go wrong with an Austrian dude wanting to remake the whole map of Europe?

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Conservatives Can’t Fight Culture Wars Without Doing THIS First.

Today, late-night comedians pal around on stages and podcasts, putting competition aside for what they see as the greater good.

Survival, for starters.

Late-night revenue and ratings are spiraling downward, and the format may go the way of the 8-track tape. More importantly, a strong late-night lineup lets liberals smite the Right five days a week.

They’re on the same team, and they realize the power of their progressive messaging. It’s also why any left-leaning piece of art, from “The Comey Rule” to the latest Michael Moore film, earns copious coverage in the mainstream media.

The number of fawning stories about Hulu’s “The 1619 Project” is a glaring, grade-A example.

How are conservatives responding? Infighting. Isolationism. Ignorance. It’s a disaster, especially for the rare, right-leaning artist hoping to promote his or her work.

The Left maintains a strong, unified cultural front. The Right has nothing of the sort.

Read the whole thing.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Joe Biden Is About to Be Let Off the Hook for Mishandling Classified Docs.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: China’s Tencent Profited Off Fraudulent PPP Loans. “The court records reveal that Tencent co-owned one of the main investors in Womply, a San Francisco startup that raked in $2 billion in 2021 by helping businesses get expedited Paycheck Protection Program loans—and which was accused of profiting from ‘rampant fraud’ in the application process.”

Expedited, indeed.

Flashback to Obama’s 2009 stimulus that Biden oversaw: Biden says some waste inevitable part of stimulus.

“We know some of this money is going to be wasted,” Biden said during a roundtable discussion in New York with business leaders aimed at promoting the two-year stimulus plan.

The package was approved by the Democratic-led Congress in February over the objections of most Republicans, who were concerned about the potential for wasteful spending and because it will add billions of dollars to U.S. deficit spending.

President Barack Obama placed Biden in charge of supervising implementation of the stimulus to underscore his promise of strict oversight of the package

“Waste” was the entire point of the stimulus package — 2009, 2021, it doesn’t matter — provided it ended up in well-connected hands.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER? Boston University will investigate Kendi center after ignoring questions for years.

“To ensure its long-term impact and sustainability, Kendi made the decision to restructure the center to create a residential fellowship program for antiracist intellectuals, creators, and students,” BU announced on Sep. 21. “He announced the layoffs as part of the restructuring (19 staff people were laid off, leaving a staff at the center of 15 to 17 people moving forward).”

This comes not only after Professor Saida Grundy first raised concerns in 2021, according to the student newspaper, but after The College Fix and other media outlets have questioned Kendi’s output.

BU said it “recognize[s] the importance of Dr. Kendi’s work and the significant impact it has had on antiracist thinking and policy” and looks forward to working with him on the inquiry.

If the investigation leads to any real changes, it’d be a real shock.

AGING: After Perfecting Plan to Avoid Falling UP the Stairs, Old Joe Biden Nearly Tumbles DOWN the Stairs.

CHICAGO: Defund The Police + Decriminalize Shoplifting = “Food Deserts.” “We’re talking about state and federal tax dollars being used to essentially run state-run supermarkets. That’s socialism 101. That’s what happened in Venezuela. That would happen in the Soviet Union: The state ran the supermarkets.”

If you don’t have the time or inclination to watch a video, Lawrence Person has done his usual excellent job of breaking out the bullet points.

DEMOCRATS AND THEIR ALLIES HAVE SPENT DECADES CRIPPLING AMERICAN AUTOMAKERS: Biden Joined UAW Picket Line Even Though He Himself Crippled the Auto Industry.

DON’T BE EVIL: Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI.

Google Bard, the search giant’s conversational AI product, underwent a big update last week that earned mixed reviews. But this week, another, older Bard feature is coming under scrutiny: SEO consultant Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially exposing information users meant to be kept contained or confidential.

This means that if a person used Bard to ask it a question — possibly even a question related to the contents of their private emails — then shared the link with a designated third-party, say, their spouse, friend or business partner, the conversation accessible at that link could in turn be scraped by Google’s crawler and show up publicly, to the entire world, in its Search Results.

On X (formerly Twitter), Ghotra posted a screenshot of evidence of several Bard conversations being indexed by Google Search.

Don’t trust Google.

Related: Huge new ChatGPT update highlights the dangers of AI hype.

Dr. John Licato, an AI researcher and computer science professor, said that this push into more modalities has been expected for a while and could lead to a litany of powerful applications. His concern, however, is that OpenAI has kept its models closed off so that researchers remain unable to understand the actual capabilities of these models.

“What worries me is that these new releases are coming under OpenAI’s business model, which is not very open at all,” Licato told TheStreet. “So long as OpenAI refuses to disclose the data they use to train their models, and the ways in which they update their models with user interaction data, we can never have any substantial guarantee of their safety.”

If OpenAI won’t tell it’s because they don’t want you to know.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION: Remain Calm! All Is Well! NYPD to Release Security Robot.

THERE HE GOES AGAIN: Commander Biden bites another Secret Service agent, the 11th known incident.

Previously: Dogs tend to adopt the same personality traits as their owners.

BREAKING: North Korea ‘Expels’ U.S. Soldier Who ‘Defected.’

BLUE CITY BLUES: Target to Close Stores in San Francisco, Other Cities, Citing Theft.

The retailer said Tuesday that stores in the New York City, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., markets would close effective Oct. 21. The stores account for a small portion of the more than 1,900 locations the company operated nationwide as of late January, but the decision is the latest sign of actions executives say they are taking to protect their businesses.

Target is also dealing with a broad slowdown in sales compared with its performance through the Covid-19 pandemic. The company said last month that shoppers in the most recent period spent less on apparel, home goods and other discretionary items in the midst of higher prices for food and other essentials.

It couldn’t be happening to a more woke major retailer. So we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Michelle Obama Is the New Gavin Newsom in the Biden Dementia Sweepstakes. “Buy in for $25, correctly pick the date the Dems nuke Sir Sniffsalot and who his replacement will be and the prize is yours.”

IF THE RNC TIGHTENED THE QUALIFICATIONS ENOUGH TO EXCLUDE ONLY ASA HUTCHINSON THEN THEY NEED TO KEEP TIGHTENING: 7 GOP candidates have qualified for second debate, RNC says. “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; businessman Vivek Ramaswamy; former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley; former Vice President Mike Pence; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum have all qualified, according to the RNC.”

Related: Gird Your Livers and Join Me for Wednesday’s GOP Debate Drunkblog.

A CATHERINE SALGADO EXCLUSIVE: Mich. Congressional Candidate Calls for Americans with ‘Intestinal Fortitude’ This Election.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: Meta’s Threads struggles to grow amid rivalry with Elon Musk’s X, ranking ahead of only Tumblr.

I still don’t understand why there have been so many attempts to clone Twitter… er, X. The genuine article is mostly awful, tiny by social media standards, and has never made real money.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Biden Never Would Have Joined the UAW Picket Line If Not for Trump.

LOST? REALLY? FBI sued after allegedly losing hundreds of thousands in rare coins during raid.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY:

The 10-year Treasury just hit a 16-year high of 4.5%, which – if sustained – is basically catastrophic for long-term federal deficits. This is much more important than the vast majority of daily politics and culture fights getting most of the media's attention. pic.twitter.com/2CBNEOOWZh

— Brian Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@Brian_Riedl) September 25, 2023

Related: You Won’t Believe What We’re Spending ONE TRILLION DOLLARS to Buy.

AGING: Here’s What Would Happen if Biden Took a Bad Fall.

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS…: NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa. “We now think that we have observational evidence that the carbon we see on Europa’s surface came from the ocean. That’s not a trivial thing. Carbon is a biologically essential element.”

JUST LOOK WHAT THEY’VE DONE WITH CALIFORNIA: Democrats’ plan of transitioning America to a one-party state.