OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks interplanetary driving record — and it’s far from done.

THEY JUST WANT TO AGITATE THEIR KOOKY FEMALE VOTER BASE FOR THE MIDTERMS: In Cornell Sexual Assault Case, Democrats Forget the Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal.

And if Cornell has to pay out $20 million to each (hopefully adjusted for inflation) that’s Cornell’s problem.

SHANGRI-LA: Scientists Had Mice Eat Olive Oil Before Carbs, And It Changed Their Blood Sugar Response.

ALEX BERENSON: A funny thing’s happening now that (almost) nobody gets mRNA jabs anymore. “Because so many Covid deaths occurred in people who were very old and sick and would likely have died in a year or two from their underlying illnesses, epidemiologists predicted as Covid began in 2020 that deaths would fall below normal when it ended. They called that potential future mortality lull the ‘pull-forward effect.'”

CHANGE: GM Defense Is Making a Driverless Silverado-Based Military Vehicle.

IT’S AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE THIS IS SATIRE: “I know it was about me, because everything is.”

I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the… pic.twitter.com/5pIZN9HKdn

— The Spectator 🇺🇸 (@TheSpectator) October 14, 2026

Related:

"a weird kind of prudishness where the prude isn't offended at the activity but at the noticing of the activity."
Perfectly put.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 13, 2026

Jenna Bush is a weird spokesperson for propriety.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: America’s Expanding Gun Culture: Cue the Lamentations of the Journalists.

I’M STILL PLANNING THANKSGIVING: In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026: And yes, doomsday falls on Friday the 13th.

MICROBIOME NEWS: What Your Gut Bacteria May Reveal About How Cancer Treatment Affects You.

WELL, GOOD: Popular erectile dysfunction pill may deliver additional boost to aging men.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: No need for all men to worry about declining sperm counts. An expert explains.

SOUNDS PLAUSIBLE: Progressives Are a Bunch of Depressed, Anti-Humanity Bores.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Penn State may cut 47 programs over low interest, employment opportunity.

HOW MANY GOVERNMENT-PUSHED TECHNOLOGIES ARE LIKE THIS? The old light bulbs are coming back. “LED light is altogether different, making light through a narrow electronic process that spikes strong in the blue part of the light spectrum, and emits almost no infrared at all. Even worse, it flickers rapidly, switching on and off hundreds of times per second. The flicker is too fast to register with our conscious eye, but it is not too fast to wreak havoc on our nervous system.”

The government pushed incandescent bulbs out. Now the Department of Energy is backing their return. Why? The science around artificial light, blue-light exposure, and what it may mean for our eyes and health is becoming impossible to ignore..https://t.co/mNUS7m01oV

— Tracy Beanz (@tracybeanz) October 13, 2026

I should say that the quality of the light doesn’t bother me, and I notice flickers — I can literally see the flicker in fluorescent lights even when they’re working properly — and I appreciate how long they last. The InstaWife, however, doesn’t much like any non-incandescent light.

NOT WITHOUT REASON: Islamic Non-Profits Could Be Investigated for Terror Ties, Abuse of Taxpayer-Funded Grants.

DAVID STROM: Does Reality Matter? Not in the ‘Mattress Girl’ Case, and Not in Cornell 7 Case Either. It’s all pre-election agitprop for lefty women. “What is striking about these cases, as with the case that Theo Jordan refers to (the hoax of residential school mass graves), is the willingness of the cultural elite institutions, and especially the media, to ignore the evidence and stick with a Narrative™ despite the complete lack of evidence to support it.” Truth-seeking isn’t their job, and they don’t see it as their job.

BUT OF COURSE: NY Democratic Socialists Boss Railed Against Landlords. His Rich Parents Rented Out Their Florida Mansion for $18,000 a Month, Bought Him a $1 Million NYC Home.

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT: Socialism And Islam Are Both Religions Based On Pillaging The West.

THE USUAL PRE-ELECTION BS:

The funny thing is that this is ALL fake.

The Cornell 7 thing turned out to be scuzzy on all sides, but no kind of prosecutable rape. The other #NewMeToo cases ("62 million man rape academy") ALL fell apart or duly ended with the men in jail. Gillis didn't say women ARE working… https://t.co/DqgdVGg10C

— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 13, 2026

OPEN THREAD: I disagree with your philosophy. What killed the cat’s not curiosity.

GROUND THYSELF: The moon could turn astronauts into ‘walking, high voltage capacitors’ that accidentally zap spacecraft.

SAME: “I can’t imagine looking to Hillary Clinton to satisfy a hunger for real conversation.”

SCIENCE: Scientists Collected Deep-Sea Rocks. They Spontaneously Caught Fire in The Lab.