GOOD NEWS ABOUNDS:

Two facts to brighten your morning:

Murder rates in the US are at record lows.

Civilian firearms ownership is at a record high.

Gun owners know why this is. If you have trouble understanding it, some of your premises need a rethink.

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 23, 2026

HAHA:

Ok this is hilarious

— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) October 23, 2026

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 95% of Michigan faculty donations go to El-Sayed over Rogers in Senate race.

OF COURSE IT’S COMMIES: UW–Madison center that backs ‘progressive’ change promotes Marxist and activist-led events.

SUCCINCTLY PUT:

The whole ethos of Washington, D.C. these days is: let's keep the racket going as long as possible. This is every agency, every Congressional office, every lobbyist, every think tank. Idealism is gone. Public service is gone. The notion of government as servant of the people is…

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) October 23, 2026

OUCH:

Judge Henry Wingate just received the most vicious benchslap I've ever seen in an appellate opinion:

"The district court—or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent—ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda."

He was removed from the case. pic.twitter.com/fYOsqD5C4c

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) October 23, 2026

Full opinion here.

Judges like this should routinely face impeachment inquiries. Sure, Democrats will protect them in the Senate, but the process is the punishment and they should have their noses rubbed into how bad they are.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Europe Begs Trump on Ukraine After Snubbing Him on Iran.

REAL NEWS VS. THE FAKE STUFF:

America currently has a cabal of ~1,600 former military officers/NCOs and ex-State/USAID/CIA employees who are members of the National Security Leaders for America, an organization currently involved in an active plot to overthrow our Constitutional order via an American Color… https://t.co/E4Od8u2LbL

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 23, 2026

THIS SEEMS RIGHT: BIA: Asylum Seekers Who Go Home Abandon Their Applications. “The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ administrative tribunal that reviews immigration decisions — recently issued an opinion in Matter of M-R-I-, concluding that applicants for asylum and related humanitarian protections who go back to their home countries on advance parole ‘absent compelling reasons for the return’ abandon those applications. That’s common sense — if an alien claims a country is too dangerous to return to, he shouldn’t voluntarily go there — but let’s wait to see what the federal courts think — and how they analyze the administrative decisions.”

LIBERTARIANS SHOULDN’T LET THEMSELVES BE USED: Abdul El-Sayed’s Treasurer Behind Super PAC Pushing Third-Party Libertarian as ‘True Conservative’ in Michigan Senate Race.

WELL, GOOD: Accountability? Starmer to Be Dragged Before ‘Grooming Gang’ Inquiry.

YES. WE DO.

Counterpoint: Men choose between suboptimal options even if they don’t want to. https://t.co/DdpxiCZikx

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 22, 2026

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

HMM: Could a $200K bond for satellites paid before launch prevent a space junk disaster in orbit? Here’s why some scientists think so. Scientists aren’t exactly experts at regulatory matters. This isn’t promising:

“Low Earth orbit looks like lots of other resources that we have trashed as economic actors,” Daniel Kaffine, a professor of environmental and resource economics at University of Colorado Boulder, told Space.com.

(1) Resources are generally more trashed by governmental actors. Most space debris created in recent years has come from Chinese and Russian military posturing. For that matter, the environmental record of governments in general is much worse than that of “economic actors.” See, e.g., the Aral Sea, the Gold King Mine/Animas River EPA spill, etc.

(2) I question the value of space regulatory advice from a “professor of environmental and resource economics.” Nor is such a person a “scientist.”

(3) That said, the bond idea isn’t a bad one except that (a) there’s nobody empowered to impose the requirement; and (b) there’s nobody empowered to administer it.

I recommend space salvage. The Outer Space Treaty is a barrier, but we could probably end run it via the Artemis Accords.

HMM: Scientists Found a Bizarre Pattern in Over 1,000 Cases of Alleged Human Reincarnation.

SO FAR: Far From Killing Us, AI Is Saving Lives.

THERE WAS NO PRELAPSARIAN GOLDEN AGE: 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skeleton Reveals a Mysterious Spear Wound Aimed at the Heart. Life was nasty, brutish, and short.

WELL, THAT’S DISAPPOINTING. There is no magic diet.

DO TELL: GM’s Trucks Are Carrying the Company.

SHOCKER: It Turns Out That Catch-And-Release Criminal Justice is Hazardous to Your Health.

AS A KID I WAS TAUGHT THAT ROLLING SNAKES WERE A MYTH: This snake cartwheels to escape danger.

PROTEIN IS GOOD: Does Eating Less Protein Boost Autophagy? New Study Says No.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: I asked 5 dentists if you really need to replace your toothbrush after being sick — they all gave the same advice.

ELON HAS HIGH-LEVEL ACCESS TO PALANTIR AND, I SUSPECT, AN EXTRA-STRENGTH VERSION OF GROK.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets … https://t.co/L7xNa6yCm0

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2026

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Zero Republican political science professors found at 4 major Pennsylvania universities, research shows.

Academia is unwise to align itself entirely with one political party.