WELL, BYE:

🚨 #BREAKING: The CIA has just offered their ENTIRE workforce the option to quit in exchange for eight months’ pay

HOLY CRAP. pic.twitter.com/nGq7rIgCvh

— MAGA NEWS 🇺🇲🗞️ (@MAGAlwr5) October 7, 2026

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Stacy McCain: Is ‘Trumpism’ to Blame for the ‘Cornell 7’ Circus? Nothing can satisfy the feminist craving for vengeance.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

NEWS FROM BRONSON BETA: Worlds collide! James Webb Space Telescope investigates what happens when planets crash together.

OVER AT SUBSTACK, I HAVE THOUGHTS on Marco Rubio’s speech today.

SCIENCE: Freediving Seems to Reorganize The Human Brain on a Large Scale.

HONESTLY, IT’S NOT A BAD LOOK:

https://twitter.com/found_it_funny/status/2107544805819523225/photo/1

UPDATE: This is one of those tweets that won’t embed for some reason, so here’s a screenshot:

SCIENCE: Study Finds Exercise May Be a Surprisingly Powerful Treatment for Pain.

BARBARIC SAVAGES SHOULD BE TREATED WITH SAVAGE BARBARISM: October 7 and the Transition from Wokeism to Savage Culture: From character assassination to actual assassination.

What did Caesar do to the pirates who kidnapped him?

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Some People Are Peeling Their Apples Before Eating Them—Should You?

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Lucid Misses Q3 Delivery Estimates, Production Drops 38%: Amid an operational overhaul, Lucid continues to see declines, causing it to miss average analyst estimates.

SOUND SCIENCE: CDC Restores More Accurate Estimate of Defensive Gun Uses After Biden Era Censorship.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Elderly residents of tiny Scottish island just uncovered a medieval monastery.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Eating Sugar While Taking Antibiotics May Disrupt Gut Bacteria, New Study Finds.

UH OH: WHO Says Plague Risk Low After Russian Lab Death.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Parents Need to Know About GLP-1 Medications for Kids.

THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY NEEDS MORE DISCIPLINE: After More Than Three Years, Judge Newman’s Case Is Transferred To The Eleventh Circuit: The case was only transferred after Chief Judge Moore extended Newman’s suspension for another year. “Indeed, there is a parallel between Chief Judge Moore and Judge Southwick. Both judges care very much about who sits on their court and they seek to use their own judicial power to control who sits on the court. The judicial ethics mavens apparently see nothing wrong with either of their conduct, but I do. And for what it’s worth, Judge Newman could have hand-picked her successor a long time ago, but has made the moral choice to serve until she can serve no longer.”

Full disclosure: Judge Newman is represented by the NCLA, on whose board I serve.

WHAT A BACKDROP FOR THIS SPEECH:

Some significant advance work here as Rubio speaks about Western Civilization in front of the Acroplis.

"The history of America, of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government."…

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) October 7, 2026

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Cal Poly Humboldt ‘dialogues’ on race to focus on ‘fighting fascism and erasure.’

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: UC Berkeley received $224M in Chinese funding amid federal probe.

HE WILL NOT BE MISSED: James Talarico’s Campaign Goes Dark With Just 28 Days Until Election Day. “Talarico has not been seen publicly in Texas in over a week, with his last appearance occurring on Saturday, September 26, before he took a fundraising trip to New York City. There, he was treated to a VIP fundraising dinner where attendees, like a filmmaker who labeled America a ‘shithole’ and a group that advocates for child sex change surgeries, were charged $27,000 a plate.”

MARK JUDGE: ‘A Huge Success!’ Year One of the Annual Anti-Communist Film Festival.

DON SURBER: Women lie. Men serve time. Fight for the presumption of innocence.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Troy Jackson Touted New Cell Phone Tower for His Rural Town. It Was Built on His Family’s Land.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

BREAKING: Haverford professor Guangtian Ha hid behind at least four anonymous X accounts, sending roughly 50 messages.

He sent a photo of the victim’s home mailbox, along with, “If Jews are so special then they should be placed in special camps.” https://t.co/bciISmZAsz pic.twitter.com/kUd0qmKyfm

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 7, 2026