OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

CHANGE: SpaceX is back in the $2 trillion club after nearly two months.

IT’S THE TOXOPLASMOSIS: “Cats seem to be associated with worse mental health measures for children, while other pets, including rabbits, reptiles, or amphibians, seem to have the opposite effect.”

WELL, FIX IT: A Hidden Hormone Disorder May Be Driving Millions of High Blood Pressure Cases.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice.

MAGNESIUM IS GOOD: Taking Magnesium? This Is the Most Important Thing to Remember.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Audi Offers EV Lessees Up to $10,000 to Keep Their Cars.

MAKE THEM PAY: NRA Launches Suit Aimed at Denver’s Non-Resident Carry Ban.

ADVENTURES IN DUMB:

Ask communists to explicitly describe what communism would be like. The answers are hilarious.

> Everyone gets a modern urban apartment in a city, no cars
> You don't have to work
> Things are just produced so everyone has stuff somehow
> People work because of a 'sense of… pic.twitter.com/KzG2nT0c8k

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 6, 2026

SCIENCE: Prescribe exercise for prostate cancer patients, study says.

STRENGTH AND POWER: Weight loss is no longer the top gym goal — why strength training is taking over.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do you need electrolytes for summer workouts? Experts explain how to exercise safely in the heat.

SEXISM ON PARADE: North Carolina universities have preferred female applicants for over two decades: report.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Saint Augustine’s cancels fall classes as crisis deepens, judge ‘surprised’ by lack of professionalism.

OUT: BAGHDAD BOB. In: Baghdad NYT. “A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.” “The Persian Army has more power and it disappeared in a sandstorm west of Thebes 2,551 years ago.”

Plus: “Why would NYT run something awful like that? Because the NYT strives to be awful. Robert Stacy McCain wrote about the New York Times Journalism Institute, Class of 2018, that NYT travel writer Victoria Leandra called the future of journalism.”

ROB HENDERSON ON LINDSAY CLANCY: O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women. “What I’m about to explain is why some verdicts are more about settling emotional debts than attaining a fair outcome. Once you understand this, the support for Lindsay Clancy begins to look much less mysterious.”

Related:

Fascinating how all of the people who have responded negatively to my Clancy essay have been, without exception, college-educated middle class white women, lending support to my hypothesis about what the support for Clancy is really about: https://t.co/asa1Mda1Kg https://t.co/4bbWwpLwyC

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 6, 2026

POOR CANADA IS SO INSECURE:

Meanwhile, in Kansas, the Canadian anthem is met with nothing but respect. https://t.co/dn3cyGIGA4 pic.twitter.com/RPHQERZGO5

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) September 6, 2026

HMM: Jason Calcanis is Wrong About Cybercab, Waymo, and Uber — Here’s Why.

ICYMI: The Death of Nike. At the hands of Colin Kaepernick, Dylan Mulvaney, and moronic hipster marketing execs.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

WE ARE STARDUST, WE ARE GOLDEN: Stars forge and deliver the elements that make up your body — and scientists may finally know how.

MYSTERY: GPS Glitched Across The US by as Much as 33 Feet. Scientists Have Never Seen This Before.

LYCOPENE NEWS: Tomatoes Contain an Invisible Ingredient With Surprising Effects on Liver Health.

WELL, GOOD: Arthritis Drug Restores Up to 100% of Hair in Patients With Severe Alopecia.

I REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL JENSEN INTERCEPTOR: Jensen Interceptor GTX First Look: The Latest Track Day Car for a Certain Type of Enthusiast.

Related (From Ed): But will it star in its own TV series?