WHY IS IT THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BAN GUNS NEVER SEEM TO KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM? Virginia AG: AR-15s Are Really Just Machine Guns That Shoot Semi-Automatically…Or Something.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 31, 2026
A DIFFERENT KIND OF SINGULARITY IS HERE:
Funniest thing about this is that median nationwide scores are plummeting at the same time the test is getting easier.
Students are getting dumber faster than they can dumb down the test 😂 https://t.co/VxIXSnEVKg
— Sulla (@spqr_sulla) October 29, 2026
A singularity of stupid.
SADLY TRUE.
This is a somber reminder that in a struggle for political power, the most intolerant side will win. Every single time. There are no exceptions.
It is time to be intolerant of those who wish us destroyed. And intolerant of evil as a whole.
No more turning the other cheek. https://t.co/Z63zUlY6sW
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 29, 2026
That’s why our enemies have been telling us to be tolerant.
THE SINGULARITY IS HERE:
The Singularity is now
We were told the Singularity would arrive like a comet – a date, a flash, a headline. It won't. It's already here, and it looks like a press release nobody reads.
Anyone who has been trading knows this. Compounding is boring for years, then sudden. The… https://t.co/d3ltF4Gioi
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) October 29, 2026
As I’ve said many times before, one characteristic of a singularity is that you can’t tell when you’re entering it.
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Most people freeze when the power stays out past a day because they never practiced the one skill that turns cold water into something drinkable and damp wood into heat, and that gap is exactly why clear-headed preparation beats last-minute panic every time. I laid out the case… https://t.co/oqDKTtiMS7
— Eric Schwalm (@Schwalm5132) October 30, 2026
THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:
Basically this thing is about the same size as an equivalent output diesel generator (1MWe) but will run for 5 years without refueling. Pretty cool stuff. https://t.co/fKUk95fbbg
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 30, 2026
Actually we could have had these in the 20th if Tom Hayden hadn’t chosen the antinuclear movement as a vehicle to keep the activist cohort from the anti-Vietnam War crowd alive (and drawing paychecks) after the Vietnam War ended.
TRUE.
A popular republic coming undone due to the unbounded passion for equality? If only people had predicted that. https://t.co/ymhiLwbLgK
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) October 29, 2026
SOME PEOPLE ARE POISON. THEY’RE USUALLY LEFTIST PEOPLE.
The center of the Brazil story is not Flavio Bolsonaro but rather Alexandre de Moraes, who has utterly destroyed the credibility of the Brazilian justice system and its democracy through years of escalating persecution against critics, dissidents and political opponents, all… https://t.co/QNxyEIAArN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2026
“I HAD SPENT YEARS DISMISSING THOSE WARNINGS BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM REPUBLICANS.”
"Worse, a remarkable number of the things Republicans had warned about seemed to be happening right in front of me. I had spent years dismissing those warnings because they came from Republicans.
That was a deeply uncomfortable realization."
There are a great many quotable… https://t.co/TZGFAZm04D
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 28, 2026
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Latest Attacks on Trump Backfire Spectacularly.
Obama is a synthetic creation; his actual political skills are modest.
HMM:
Barack Hussein Obama was spotted in London a couple weeks ago. He was on his "what comes next" speaking tour.
Who did he meet with? 👀👀
Barack Obama is Donald Tusk’s dear friend. Today Donald Tusk is attempting a coup against the democratically elected President.
All roads… pic.twitter.com/4bVlwrFobO
— Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) October 31, 2026
Related:
If the EU can organise a coup against one of its own members it should be equally acceptable for the people to remove corrupt western governments.
— Christopher Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) October 31, 2026
It is entirely acceptable.
WHEN THEY FACE BLOODY REVOLUTIONS, I WILL NOT SYMPATHIZE:
You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban…
— Jacob Reynolds (@jacobreynolds) October 30, 2026
I HAVE HEARD THIS FROM UNDERGRADUATES WHO ARE SEARCHING FOR JOBS:
I can tell you this stuff is true. A family member, educated, accomplished etc, looked for work for more than a year and became so disgusted by the overapplication of AI to the process (which treats applicants like units, not humans) that he decided to write a novel (2 agents…
— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) October 30, 2026
October 30, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover a New Dinosaur Species Hiding in Plain Sight for 25 Years.
CHANGE: The Peptide Rush Has Begun.
I READ IT, I BLURBED IT, AND I RECOMMEND IT: Kurt Schlichter’s new book American Warlord.
Vic Kinkaid is a middle manager at a trucking company, answering to HR Karens and reading Roman history at night.
Then the world ends, and it turns out he's exactly the man America needs. pic.twitter.com/3SDZ4sgreq
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 30, 2026
PINING FOR THE FJORDS: Ford Killed the Escape. Now It Looks Like the Popular SUV Might Come Back.