OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

TRYING TO COMPETE WITH SPACEX: China launches 4 different rockets to orbit in 45 hours.

I’M PREPARED, I ALWAYS KEEP A BOTTLE OF POL ROGER CHILLED: Why We Must Prepare for the Chinese Communist Party’s Collapse.

SCIENCE UNSETTLED: A 100-Year-Old Physics Effect Doesn’t Work How We Thought It Did, Study Finds.

OBESITY WILL BECOME A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: Scientists Discover New Compound That Burns Fat Without Killing Your Appetite.

WELL:

SHUT THEM DOWN.
It would be better to have no public schools at all than to spend $50k per student for “education” so bad. https://t.co/j8v9yKOTM7

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 20, 2026

SO, UH, WHY? . . . The Ferrari 296 GT Modificata Is a Race Car That Can’t Be Raced.

EH, MOSTLY I JUST ASK SAYUNCLE FOR ADVICE: How Do You Research Your Most Important Gun-Related Purchases? Or sometimes Tamara Keel.

NOW, CAESAR’S ROAD ATLAS: Ancient Rome Built 190,000 Miles Of Roads And Researchers Just Traced Them All.

NO, THERE WILL BE ROBOTS: Smart beds and motion sensors – is this the future of dementia care?

PANIC: Human extinction fears make me want to flee AI and live on an island.

Hope that works out for you.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS, FEMALE ENTITLEMENT EDITION: California tech exec mocked for cringeworthy list of dating ‘non-negotiables.’

Honestly, most of what she says would be fine if cast as suggestions instead of demands.

But she’s 29. See how she feels in a couple of years.

THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM FOR NOT JUST BRITAIN, BUT PRETTY MUCH ALL OF WESTERN EUROPE:

Serious question: why should Englishmen fight to defend the prerogatives of a ruling class that has utterly failed in its duty to the people it governs? And not only that, but seems to actively despise them? https://t.co/VYeEuuyukE

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) September 21, 2026

CHANGE: NYC’s Carnegie Deli reopens after 10-year absence — with noticeable differences in service, soup and pastrami. Nooo! Not the pastrami! But they’re saying it’s better: “The reborn Carnegie Deli has better pastrami and chicken soup than its predecessor did. Service by friendly waitresses is a big improvement over the crusty ‘whaddya have’ of yore.”

Hmm. I’ll have to check it out and form my own opinon.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Faculty member celebrates as students engage in ‘decapitation’ of Trump piñata.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Calif. board of trustees scraps Pledge of Allegiance over ‘white nationalism’ history.

HYPOCRISY IS THE SMALL COIN OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICS:

Remember in 2016 when some of these same Hollywooders made a video begging Republican electors to defy the will of voters and not cast their votes for Trump https://t.co/lDeDxEsF6o pic.twitter.com/KKTlBDZs16

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 20, 2026

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Careful with those redactions.

GOOD: Prosecutors zero in on John Brennan’s role in Trump-Russia collusion narrative in conspiracy case.

“WHAT WILL BRING WORLD WAR III?” “IT’LL PROBABLY BE SOME DAMN FOOL THING IN THE BALTICS.”

The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don't already live there.

Narva is 87% ethnic Russian.

There are intelligence reports that…

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 21, 2026

MARK JUDGE: Red Scare! How the Media Will Cover the Anti-Communist Film Festival.

DON SURBER: Greenlanding the news: How the media tried to turn victory into defeat. “The Atlantic piled a nice dung heap quickly.” They generally do.

ONG0ING WAVES OF MASS HYSTERIA ARE HOW DEMS MAINTAIN POWER:

This “free Palestine” movement is a social contagion. None of these people have any knowledge of the history of the conflict or the current politics of the region.

It’s just the latest thing to show off, like the trans movement or a new pair of Nikes.

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) September 20, 2026

The United States has been leaping from one moral panic to the next: Black Lives Matter, MeToo, George Floyd, and now data centers plus the specter of AI-driven human extinction. In every case a genuine problem exists, but the threat is inflated out of all proportion and the…

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) September 20, 2026

Related: Neurosis and the Curley Effect.

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION:

Here you go, @AAGDhillon: Should be an easy layup. https://t.co/ZAhgl4Oii7

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 20, 2026

STACY MCCAIN:

"We are more than 150 years past the end of slavery in America, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones is more obsessed with race than any of the Confederate leaders whose likenesses are carved upon the side of Stone Mountain."https://t.co/o5VVzogSHq pic.twitter.com/oZ07KVvqrE

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 20, 2026

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