Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
October 17, 2026
MICROBIOME NEWS: Giant bacteria could be living in your gut. “Our gut microbiome is home to trillions of microbes, but they may not all be microscopic. Giant bacteria, which can reach a centimetre in length, are generally found in niche environments, such as mangroves and fish guts. But now, microbiologists have detected signs of DNA from Epulopiscium, one of the largest known types of bacteria, in human gut microbiomes from around the world. Bacteria are usually around 2 micrometres long, while giant ones are generally defined as being larger than 10 micrometres. But species belonging to the Epulopiscium genus can reach up to 600 micrometres – more than half a millimetre – in length.”
THERE SHOULD BE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR THIS KIND OF THING: Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus more infectious: Newly released records show Vincent Munster suggested inserting a furin cleavage site and that his lab obtained unpublished SARS-related sequences. Nothing links the research to SARS-CoV-2.
It’s actually worse if multiple people were wanting to do this.
THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: 1,000-Foot ‘Invisible’ Waves Are Tearing Through the Deep Ocean.
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT: A dog longevity pill is nearing FDA approval. A vet explains what it can and can’t do.
WHAT A GYP, GIVEN ALL THE HYPE: Not losing weight on Ozempic? Doctors explain what might be happening and what to do next.
REMINDER:
Never forget: Democrats were throwing Molotov cocktails at Teslas because Elon Musk wanted to DOGE government fraud. pic.twitter.com/nsM4lOKPbF
— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 16, 2026
WHY ARE SO MANY “RELIGIOUS” SCHOOLS WORSHIPING LEFTISM? Baylor accused of ‘mission drift’ after high-profile Christian apologetics event canceled.
ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.
Related:
They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9
— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026
RULE OF LAW: NYU student group demands 20 percent black enrollment despite Supreme Court ruling. New York University’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter is pressing the school to raise Black enrollment and hire more Black faculty. Let’s not pay attention to SDS demands, m’kay?
JOE WON’T BE REMEMBERED, BUT TO BE FAIR, HE DOESN’T REMEMBER IT EITHER.
* Who was president 2021-2025? It remains a mystery. We know it wasn’t the massively corrupt career incompetent dementia case. We know the broad outlines, a cabal of Obama bros with an autopen, probably taking direction from Obama. Who still thinks he’s some kind of shadow…
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 17, 2026
OUT: BELIEVE ALL WOMEN. IN:
This should be just the beginning of the normalization. Let’s hope that someone else apologizes and helps restore some of what you lost.
Hope this also helps your alumni who were side victims of the mass hysteria.
Big hug.— Cristina Muñoz Pinedo (@crismunozp) October 17, 2026
ROGER KIMBALL: Jack Smith’s Plot Against the Republic.
Six hundred and thirty-nine thousand. Thanks to the indefatigable Chuck Grassley, we now know that that’s the number of individuals whose names Special Counsel Jack Smith hoovered up for Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice when Joe Biden occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (“Occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” it may almost go without saying, seems more accurate than saying “when Biden was president.”)
Senator Grassley has been terrier-like in pursuing evidence of wrongdoing by people like Jack Smith, Merrick Garland and their many confrères in the deep state, which is to say, the Democrat State. Grassley had earlier shown that nearly 5,000 GOP donor checks, mostly for piddly amounts, had been collected as “evidence” by Garland’s minions. “Evidence of what?” That’s a very good question. The answer, in brief is, “Evidence of sympathy for or making donations to Donald Trump.” Is that actionable? You betcha. At least, it was. . . .
Jack Smith and his not-so-merry band of anti-Trump zealots came within a hair’s breadth of destroying Donald Trump – and also shutting down the rights of those 639,000 individuals who donated to Trump’s campaign or ponied up for his merch. Had the Supreme Court not upheld Trump’s claim of immunity he would be in jail now. So many things had to go Trump’s way. All the important ones did. But, like the Battle of Waterloo according to the Duke of Wellington, it was “the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.”
Indeed. Now we need to administer sufficient pain to ensure that no one wants to risk trying it again. We’re nowhere close to that.
IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? The Left is angrier over Shane Gillis’s joke than illegal immigrant violence against women.
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS HATE FRATERNITIES BECAUSE LEFTISTS HATE ALTERNATIVE POWER CENTERS:
Michael S. Roth, the president of Wesleyan University, is calling for fraternities to be forced to admit women to change the culture. It is a call that is feeding a familiar mob forming over a case before any charges or evidence is established …
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) October 16, 2026
October 16, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.
Related:
They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9
— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026
INDEED:
Quote: “A flying car is what men do when they are free. A wealth tax is what politicians do to the men who built it. One of them needs the other to survive, and it isn't Musk.” https://t.co/jfNMmOSlZ7
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 16, 2026
GOOD GOD, MAN GIVE THEM SOME PRIVACY: MIT Astronomers Catch a Star Slowly Eating Its Companion 300 Light-Years Away.. Have you no decency? No decency at all?
SAFETY: RIVIAN VS. TESLA. “Both brands represent the pinnacle of modern automotive safety, but they each have their respective pros and cons.”