WHY THE BLOB HATES HIM: Hegseth Puts Warfighting Skills at the Center of Military Promotions.

CONSPIRACY: The Activist Pipeline Behind Biden’s Visa-Overstay Enforcement Failure.

BUT OF COURSE: Colorado Dem Manny Rutinel Takes Credit for $350 Million Police Fund Proposed by Conservative Group and Passed by Voters: ‘Manny never once reached out to support the campaign for prop 130, which was a ballot measure passed by voters, not legislators,’ Advance Colorado VP says.
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SHOCKER: French Street Protests: It’s Not Many Students, and Lots of Leftists and Islamists.

GROUP LIBEL: Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can’t Be Actionable Group Defamation.

OPEN THREAD: I’ll be good. I’ll be good tomorrow.

A STURDY SPACECRAFT: SpaceX brings recovered Starship home to Texas after ocean saga.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: New Trial Compared Muscle Gains in Vegetarians And Meat Eaters. One Difference Stood Out.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Language and Linguistics for Decolonization and Liberation and for Peace and Community Building — From the River to the Sea in Palestine and Israel to the Mountaintops of Haiti and Beyond.”

That’s the class MIT is paying a professor not to teach.
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PRACTICALLY HUMAN: Scientists Discover That Chimpanzees Treat Friends by Different Rules.

I BELIEVE IT’S CALLED “JUDGMENT DAY.” OpenAI And Anthropic Are Planning For ‘The Day After.’ The Fear Is A Major AI-Driven Crisis.

RESURGENS: Audi A8 Isn’t Dead After All, May Share Porsche Panamera Platform.

I REMEMBER WHEN BILLIONAIRE MONEY IN POLITICS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD: Everytown Pumps Another $10 Million of Michael Bloomberg’s Cash Into the 2026 Midterms.

A KISS IS STILL A KISS: Why did kissing evolve? If we want to find out, we’ve got to decide what counts as a kiss first.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: A teen used AI to plan a hiking route. It trapped him on a cliff.

FASTER, PLEASE: Stanford Scientists Identify Enzyme That May Promote Cartilage Regeneration in Arthritis.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Salmon vs. Fish Oil Supplements: Which Is Better for Brain Health?

CHANGE: University of Kansas removes menstrual products from men’s bathrooms.

THUG NATION: Conservative student says he was threatened after pressing El-Sayed on Iran. “A conservative student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor says he received threats and harassment after questioning Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about his refusal to directly condemn Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Genius Behind Trump’s Art of the Deal.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: SNW Talks With ATF Director Robert Cekada About Jensen, Firearm Records and Much, Much More.

#JOURNALISM:

Editors need to stop assigning political reporters to do finance and economic stories.

The WSJ now employs a bunch of former Politico and Huffington Post bloggers who don’t understand basic finance issues. https://t.co/c5ygtN4aO4

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 9, 2026

The Wall Street Journal is having a bad decade.

BOB GRABOYES: “Occasionally, I discover that I’ve never heard of someone whose work I’ve known in depth and loved dearly for most of my life.”

WHEN THE WITCH HUNT IS CONDUCTED BY WITCHES:

"Never give up": A sex investigation found a male professor innocent, so the college just kept redoing it with new investigators as activists fished for a different result. A different result never came, but the college paid the accusers $10M anyway.https://t.co/ToRnle3p2O

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) October 9, 2026

RISE OF THE MACHINES: Grok Wrote Me An Essay. And it’s pretty damn good. “The idea and thesis is mine, the writing is Grok’s. It is about 80% something I would have written myself. Compare it to things I wrote 10 years ago, it sounds quite similar.”

The machines get better all the time. Human capabilities stay about the same.