OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Blue Origin announces 3rd stage for its powerful New Glenn rocket — and a new engine.

PROGRESS: Breakthrough: FDA Approves First Drug Offering a ‘Functional Cure’ For Chronic Hepatitis B.

FASTER, PLEASE: A Tiny, Jelly-Like Implant Could Change How We Treat High Blood Pressure.

TOO SLOW: How Medical Breakthroughs Reach Patients.

I USED TO HAVE ONE; IT WAS A GREAT CAR. 2026 Lexus RX Sales Surge: Why Buyers Want This Luxury SUV.

FIGHT THE POWER: Again: Iowa State Student Challenges City Bus Line’s Ban On Lawful Carry.

MAGIC FINGERS: Vibrating Mattress May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Protein.

HMM: Earliest evidence of cannabis use reveals a disturbing connection to human sacrifice victims.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: US proposes space launch rule changes in potential boost for SpaceX.

MY MOM WENT OFF OF HRT BECAUSE OF SOME DUMB FEAR-MONGERING STUDY IN THE HARVARD HEALTH LETTER THAT TURNED OUT TO BE WRONG: Estrogen May Play an Important Role in Long-Term Brain Health.

Not saying that’s why she has dementia now, but not saying it isn’t.

WEIGHT TRAINING IS LIFE CHANGING: Strong Over Skinny: 7 Ways Weight Training Changes Women’s Lives.

WELL, GOOD: Harrowing Tampa Citibank shooting video shows moment shirtless slob gunman was taken out by hero Marine vet.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Milwaukee student fees fund ‘queer glitch art,’ speaker who says ‘misgendering’ is ‘violence.’

HE MAKES A COUP UNTHINKABLE. WE NOW LIVE IN A NATION WHERE YOU HAVE TO TAKE THAT SORT OF THING INTO ACCOUNT.

Hegseth is the most important man in the country right now and for the foreseeable future. https://t.co/jS4bUkaFLl

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 4, 2026

IF YOU TRAIN A MODEL ON THE PRODUCTS OF A NEUROTIC CULTURE, IT IS LIKELY TO BE (AT BEST) NEUROTIC:

So, safetyism is making large language models insane in a potentially dangerous way. I am somehow not the least bit surprised to learn this. https://t.co/HWdtULaOvo

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 6, 2026

GOOD THING WE HAVE THE LEFT TO STAND FOR DECENCY AND AGAINST FASCISM BY [CHECKS NOTES] PREEMPTIVELY KILLING POTENTIAL OPPOSITION:

The Democratic base demands blood. pic.twitter.com/4MeW85VNWQ

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) November 6, 2026

EVERY INSTITUTION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED:

Safest bet in the universe: the points were taken from straight white males and given to politically favored minorities and sexual deviants.

— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) November 6, 2026

Or bribery was involved. Bad either way.

RULE OF LAW: Fifth Circuit allows Mississippi DEI ban to take effect, blasts lower court’s ‘botch job.’

OOF:

There is an obtuseness to the leftiness https://t.co/qupXP3iGyy

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 6, 2026

JOSH BLACKMAN AND SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Senator-Governor Klobuchar and the Problem of the Received Wisdom. “In these circumstances, the law does not expressly bar dual-officeholding where, as here, the two positions are U.S. Senator and Minnesota Governor. The U.S. Constitution’s Incompatibility Clause (Article I, Section 6, Clause 2) bars U.S. Senators and Representatives from concurrently holding certain other federal positions. The position of governor is a state, not a federal position. So, this provision has no application here. . . . The federal double-dipping statute, 5 United States Code Section 5533 bars drawing two salaries for two positions, where both positions are at the federal level. It has no application to state positions, e.g., governor.”

SHOCKER: After warning about fascism, the Left proposes seizing private corporations.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: ‘Squad’ Alum Cori Bush Registers as Paid Foreign Agent, Will Lead Anti-Israel Propaganda Tours of West Bank for Shadowy NGO.

IN THE SEVENTIES GIRLS LOVED THEM: Quaaludes Might Be Back.

FOR THE UNFORGIVABLE CRIME OF OPPOSITION:

For what exactly? pic.twitter.com/xpzfixC3iR

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 5, 2026

Remember when David French posed as the sensible principled conservative as opposed to Trump’s impulsiveness and irrationality?

Key word: Posed.