HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM COMING ALONG? It’s Official: NASA Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Fly Past The Moon.

RUIN YOUR COUNTRY, FLEE NEXT DOOR: Former leader Jacinda Ardern has left New Zealand.

THEY KNOW WHO THE STRONG HORSE IS THIS TIME: Exclusive-Iran spent years fostering proxies in Iraq. Now, many aren’t eager to join the war.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do Ozempic and Similar Weight Loss Drugs Work for Everyone? New Study Has Answers.

SCIENCE: Empathy’s roots in parenting? Study in mice reveals brain circuits behind why we comfort others.

COMPARISON TEST: Affordable Sedan Showdown: 2026 Nissan Sentra SL vs. 2026 Volkswagen Jetta SEL.

WELL, GOOD: Bodycam Video Shows Austin PD’s Rapid Response Taking Down Terrorist Shooter.

YOU GOTTA BLOW SOME UP TO GET ANYWHERE: Japan’s private Space One Kairos rocket explodes after launch failure during 3rd test flight.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: How do GLP-1 agonists affect gene expression?

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man Fell in Love with Google Gemini and It Told Him to Stage a ‘Mass Casualty Attack’ Before He Took His Own Life: Lawsuit. Beware of seductive AI.

OUCH: A Disturbing Clue Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Her Crash. And Then She Was Eaten by Crabs.

TRUE ENOUGH:

Local man asks cop why he's allowing Islamists to chase people on horseback through the streets.
Cop: "With the greatest respect, what do you want me to do, pull a man off a horse?"
Angry resident: "If they had a Union Jack on, you would!" https://t.co/FsyfrLYin6

— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 6, 2026

LAMENESS: Bangor U. debate society refuses to debate conservative Reform UK, prompting backlash.

COVERING THE FACE OF A SUCCESSFUL BLACK AMERICAN: TCU students cover Ben Carson lecture signs with race studies petition.

HAHA:

I love it here pic.twitter.com/AykmWU3vlk

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) March 6, 2026

SINK ‘EM ALL: CDR Salamander: The Sinking of the Dena Was Textbook …the chart don’t lie.

Take a look at the chart above that I yanked from NYT.

What it represents are the Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC) out of the Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf. Each of those dots is a tanker delivering the hydrocarbons that enable modern civilization to exist and keep three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the stable.

The one center-screen? That is the SLOC our warships and their logistics chain use to move from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean and on to our fleet.

See the city of Colombo? That is the main commercial hub on the island nation of Sri Lanka. The very center of the SLOC that flows south of Sri Lanka lies about 40 nautical miles south of the island.

Until you understand the above, you really should not be even starting a conversation about the sinking of the Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, by a US Navy SSN. . . . No naval leader in the last three thousand years would have looked at this scenario and said, “No, leave that warship alone.”

This was probably one of the most justifiable sinkings of a warship in recent history.

Read the whole thing.

FIGHT THE POWER:

Hopefully, soon, all of the work done by people like @DataRepublican, @bitchuneedsoap, @iamlisalogan, myself and many others will pay off and we will see Congress act to pass legislation to shut down the funneling of foreign money into NGOs in the United States that fund activism… https://t.co/sLTgR6liKj

— SKDoubleDub (@SKDoubleDub33) March 6, 2026

THE NARRATIVE IS ALWAYS A LIE:

Right, anyway polls show massive majorities of Republicans supporting the war — the author tries to downplay 85% support — and near absolute MAGA approval of Trump.

This is wishcasting by fringe people who are Big Mad that Trump isn't a groyper like they were hoping. https://t.co/xh2Dgp59Gt

— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 6, 2026

WHY HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE GONE TO THE DOGS MORE OR LESS AT ONCE?

I never cared much for Megyn Kelly one way or the other. Within the past year, I started to enjoy her program and listened from time to time. Then came her rapid unhinged descent into zionaphobia. Amazing. https://t.co/VCLuyod4Bv

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) March 6, 2026

JOSH BLACKMAN:

This is a stunning exchange, not because of the briefing from the Florida Supreme Court, but because of how poorly Bostock has been received. I don’t know if there is any decision in recent Supreme Court history that has aged worse than Bostock. As a matter of substance, the Court has walked back the ruling in Mahmoud and Mirabelli, and will walk it back further in Chiles and the Title IX cases. As a matter of doctrine, not a single conservative would hold up Bostock as the proper way of doing textualism. The pirate flag of textualism barely flutters.

At this point, Bostock has become a laughingstock, so much so that a conservative judge asks a conservative litigant to disavow a Supreme Court precedent on how to read statutes. Of course, that ruling is not binding on the Florida Supreme Court. It is a fun academic question whether the Supreme Court can even set a precedent of how to engage in originalism or textualism. (Tara Grove suggests that the Court lacks the power to impose any methodology.) But I couldn’t help but chuckle at this exchange to see how Bostock fares in the real world.

It was not Gorsuch’s finest hour.

THEY BRAGGED AND CHEERED ABOUT BLOCKING DUBYA’S SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM PACKAGE, TOO:

Democrats literally bragged about blocking the refill of the SPR! https://t.co/DivKworxzF pic.twitter.com/5eer2PCtcP

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) March 6, 2026

LET IT BE SO. MAKE IT SO.

The multipolar dream of America's enemies is dead. Trump killed it. Nothing now stands in the way of another century of greatness, capitalistic achievement, and American exceptionalism.

— 🥷🦅Austin Petersen 🇺🇲🥋 (@AP4Liberty) March 7, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Horrific, absolutely horrific. BBC is a propaganda network, but not even propaganda for its own country https://t.co/tz25PUw41B

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) March 6, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite for ‘confidential commercial customer.’