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October 5, 2026
IT’S BEEN ONE FOR A WHILE: Migration As A Weapon. “The Russian and Belarusian intelligence services are facilitating an elaborate scheme to illegally funnel migrants from the Middle East and Africa across the border into Latvia and other NATO and European Union countries, Latvian officials said.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG.
BREAKING:
The Russians have started mandatory temperature checks of all passengers from Irkutsk landing in Moscow to scan for people potentially spreading pneumonic plague.
Close the borders with Russia now! pic.twitter.com/FCfU9WabpT
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 5, 2026
UPDATE: Well, never mind.
TEN YEARS AGO: Boeing CEO vows to beat Musk to Mars.
JOE BIDEN WAS PRESIDENT IN 2024, AND CORNELL IS A FAR-LEFT INSTITUTION. SO, NATURALLY: Right on cue, left-wing media blame the Cornell rape case on Trump.
THE NEW YORK TIMES RUNS A STORY ABOUT NUCLEAR REACTORS ON THE MOON, and the first quote is, natch, from an anti-nuke group.
David Mastio has the rest of the story.
ST. PAUL ON MARRIAGE:
1 Corinthians 7:3-5. The apostle Paul specifically commands husbands and wives to come together. I see comments that marriage doesn’t entitle to sex. That is dead wrong, most certainly wrongheaded.
— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) October 4, 2026
Not sounding like quite as much of a prude as he is usually depicted.
“WHY DOES THE MAN ALWAYS HAVE TO SUFFER?” Does your man pass the first-class test? Traveler sparks controversial airplane dating debate.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
I didn’t think I would comment on the Cornell 7 matter, but there is an underlying culprit everyone is missing. It’s not “society,” it’s the government.
The heavy partying at ultra-expensive institutions like Cornell is being financed by untold billions of non-market…— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) October 4, 2026
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Russian lab worker dies of suspected plague as 200 enter medical observation. One hopes they’re being dosed with Cipro, or better yet Levaquin. One fears that Putin has reopened Soviet biowar labs, and the strain in question was modified to be antibiotic-resistant.
DELTA’S WIFI HAS ALWAYS SUCKED LIKE A BILGE PUMP, SO THEY SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR AN EASY FIX: The Delta Airlines — Starlink Feud.
I normally don’t use airline wifi because I enjoy a break from the Internet. But when I need it, Delta isn’t there for me. It literally fails to connect half the time. And when it does connect it’s slow and sad.
Meanwhile, Elon is having fun.
Best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight – it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 30, 2026
THE DEVIL HATES TO BE MOCKED: Vibe Shift: Self-Awareness Triumphs at Columbia.
ICYMI: USA TODAY BRINGS COMMON SENSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. “The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they are reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought this court case.”
The important part is activating the Dems’ psychotic-women base between now and election day.
JONATHAN TURLEY: The blue-state model for education has failed, and the public has caught on. “New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even “somewhat satisfied” with the state of education in the U.S. What is most troubling is that the near-total contempt for our school system does not make a bit of difference. Families and students have become largely irrelevant to an education cartel, a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating political alliance of unions and politicians.”
WHO KNEW HE WAS “FAR RIGHT” DECADES AGO?
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese
He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. pic.twitter.com/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026
I BELIEVE THE SOCIETAL/RELATIONAL DAMAGE IS ACTUALLY THE POINT:
The biggest issue raised by Jane Doe vs. the Cornell 7 isn't simply who is responsible. It is what the controversy could do to relations between men and women at a moment when American social life is already in trouble.
Young Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy.…— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) October 4, 2026
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Related:
“It was so wrong when women’s husbands had control over their finances and freedoms.”
“Unrelated men should totally call the cops on a woman who wants to have sex.”
Pick one. https://t.co/AbjMUnL03T
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 4, 2026
IT’S ALL POLITICS NOW:
Yes, many critical-social-justice dogmas can't withstand intellectual scrutiny, so their proponents try to protect them via intimidation and walling off the university commons. Civil discourse and viewpoint diversity are threats to this tactic. https://t.co/zlvJCBsTa2
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) October 3, 2026
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The End of College as We Know It: AI is wreaking havoc in universities, but higher ed’s woes long predate ChatGPT.
What’s the matter with universities? Syracuse missed its 2026 enrollment target and may run a $30 million deficit. Minnesota is cutting its budget by $225 million over two years. Tulsa is slashing tuition by more than half. Colleges enroll 4.2% fewer undergraduates than last year. Cornell, Yale, Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis put out plans—not radical enough, if you ask me—to reimagine the university. Wossamotta U?
Colleges are known for left-leaning professors, speech suppression, bizarre courses—Occidental College taught “The Unbearable Whiteness of Barbie”—and easy grading more than critical thinking, judgment and problem solving. It’s easy to blame artificial intelligence, but problems run deeper. . . .
According to Gallup, in 2013, 70% of Americans said college was very important. Today it’s only 31%. If universities don’t change, more than a few will implode, while others will wither away over decades. AI and alternative forms of learning are already rising. Something radical is needed to stop the decay of our once great universities. Who will step up?
Who indeed? The link above is supposed to be a free link, but in case it doesn’t work for you, you can read the whole article here, too. And you should.
COMPARE AND CONTRAST:
Falcon 9 flew more missions in ONE YEAR than the entire Space Shuttle program flew in 30 years
• The entire Shuttle fleet:
135 missions from 1981–2011• Falcon 9 in 2025 alone:
165 launchesSpaceX exceeded the Shuttle program’s entire lifetime mission count by 30 launches in… pic.twitter.com/xUjhOexVpQ
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) October 3, 2026
A BIG WIN FOR BOLSONARO:
🚨BREAKING: Flávio Bolsonaro has officially WON the first round of the Brazilian Presidential Elections, with millions more votes than communist tyrant Lula
The polls got it horribly wrong.
CHANGE is coming to Brazil! 🇧🇷 pic.twitter.com/yrCEN2DgKl
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) October 5, 2026
It's possible, but the huge popular wave in favor of the Bolsonaro movement across Brazil will make that kind of flagrantly anti-democratic behavior more difficult.
But the STF has been shameless and without limits, so I put nothing past them. I'm sure they're plotting.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 5, 2026
Weird:
Americans were literally financing movements intended to destroy their way of life. https://t.co/AVMlQ4C0Xy
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) October 5, 2026
UPDATE (From Ed): MMGA?
Looking at this map, how long until Trump demands regime change in Mexico?
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 4, 2026
October 4, 2026
USA TODAY BRINGS COMMON SENSE: The ‘Cornell 7’ haven’t been charged. The mob doesn’t care: What’s most troubling in the Cornell University rape allegations is that onlookers have already made up their minds about who is to blame. “The pictures of these young men who have not been charged, not been adjudicated, are being plastered all over the internet. I think people are reporting this story inaccurately. I think they are reporting it unfairly. And while this is something that we have to take very seriously, there is no way, according to her statement in 2024, that any prosecutor would have brought this court case.”
The important part is activating the Dems’ psychotic-women base between now and election day.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.