ROLL UP, ROLL UP FOR THE MAGICAL MYSTERY MISSION: SpaceX launches classified mystery mission for US Space Force from California.

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

“IRONY.”

It is shocking that the British Army, which was decimated by German machine guns in 1914, has in 1915 enthusiastically adopted the machine gun itself. https://t.co/OxWQiUr3sv

— @instapundit (@instapundit) September 27, 2026

CRUSADESMAXXING: The Jerusalem Cross is going up on A-road lampposts. Richard the Lionheart kit at Reform rallies. Templars at Tommy Robinson marches. “Christ is King!” cried by Danny Tommo and his lot down in Dover. Crusader crosses are quietly usurping the Cross of St George — itself a crusader cross — at Portsmouth, London and points between. The algorithm is pumping out AI knight reels faster than a medieval pope pumping out papal bulls. England is Crusadesmaxxing.

The crusades were a defensive struggle by indigenous peoples against occupation by settler colonialists.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Will SpaceX’s Starship finally make it to orbit? We’re about to find out.

PROF. CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Sunspot 40 Times Wider Than Earth Shows Our Sun Is Capable of Superflares.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can A Submarine Survive A Nuclear Attack.

HEALTHIER, NOT HEALTHY. KFC Vs Popeyes: Who Has The Healthier Fried Chicken?

BILL GATES CALLED IT IMPOSSIBLE: 2027 Tesla Semi First Drive: We Get Seat Time in Tesla’s 500-Mile Electric Big Rig. “In the last year, I’ve put approximately 10,000 miles on MotorTrend’s long-term 2023 Tesla Model Y, which makes me eminently qualified to evaluate almost any Tesla. My Achilles’ heel in this situation is that I have zero Class 8 truck driving experience. The largest trucks I’ve ever driven have been heavy-duty versions from Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, and Ram, which sometimes have dual rear wheels, fifth-wheel receiver hitches, and the ability to tow upwards of 30,000 pounds, but I’ve never towed that kind of weight, as that would require a commercial driver’s license (CDL). So I’m a big-rig rookie. And yet, driving the Semi was surprisingly familiar, shockingly easy, and dare I say, several tons of fun.”

Related: Tesla Marked the Start of High Volume Semi Production, and the Engineering Story Sits Underneath the Cab. “I drove one. Fully loaded, tractor and trailer, and I came away impressed by three things in particular: the power, the acceleration, and the ride quality. The acceleration is the part that will get written about because it is the part that surprises people. The ride quality is the part that would matter to me if I were putting a driver in it every day. There is also a detail from behind the wheel worth naming. You barely touch the service brake. Regenerative braking handles so much of the deceleration that the driving rhythm changes, and anyone who has run mountain grades understands immediately what that implies for brake wear and for the cost line that goes with it.”

TRUMP SHOULD SPIN UP A NEW DOJ TASK FORCE FOCUSING ON POLITICIANS WHO DEPRIVE PEOPLE OF CIVIL RIGHTS: Virginia AG Spins Up a Dedicated Unit to Enforce the State’s New Vague Firearms Liability Law.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Strength training shrinks fat cells before weight loss: Study.

BUSINESS CLASS? A flight attendant says this is the secret to staying comfortable on long flights.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Belly Fat and Low Vitamin D May Be a Concerning Combination After 50, New Study Finds.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Problem with ‘Marrying Up:’ After 19 years as a professional matchmaker—including a hit Netflix show—I’ve learned that successful women aren’t struggling to find good men. They’re struggling to recognize what makes a man good.

THE PREDICTIONS ARE LOUSY, BUT THE GRIFT IS SWEET: Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lies.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMinn plans to cut $225 million over next 2 years due to enrollment, rising costs. “Citing declining enrollment and rising costs, the University of Minnesota president announced plans Thursday to implement major budget cuts over the next two years.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Maine plans for faculty layoffs amid $19 million deficit.

PUTIN’S PROBLEMS: Two More Russian Refineries Shut Down Operations After Drone Strikes.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

For more than two years, school officials in Boston, Mass., have employed True-See Allah, an admirer of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan who has described white people as being “born with lie and murder in their nature” and has declared Jews the “enemies” of God.

Allah…

— Dexter Van Zile (@dextervanzile) September 25, 2026

NO. NEXT QUESTION? John McWhorter: Are Lynchings Really Happening?

Since 2024, to judge from news reports, there have been at least 10 Black people found hanged in public in the United States. Eight of these cases have been officially ruled suicides or are being treated as such given no signs of foul play. In neither of the other two has a white suspect been named. . . .

Lynchings, of course, once loomed as a real and grisly threat over Black communities — arbitrary killings, treated as a public spectacle for whites, and unpunished. And there are certainly cases in which police officers have claimed that someone in their custody died by suicide, but the circumstances strongly suggest that the individual was killed by the police.

But what Pressley and others are suggesting is different: that today, white people are hanging Black people for the purpose of terrorizing Black communities, and that local authorities are consistently overlooking it or covering it up.

In the cases Pressley’s letter cites, there is often good reason to think otherwise. Consider a few examples:
In 2024, Javion Magee, a 21-year-old Black truck driver, was found dead in North Carolina with a rope around his neck, dangling from a tree. There is surveillance video of Magee buying the rope.

In 2025, Demartravion Reed, a 21-year-old Black student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was discovered hanged from a tree on campus. Reed had sent his girlfriend suicidal text messages the night before.

In the case of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old woman who was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi last month, two people have now been arrested in connection with her death — but they are both Black men, which runs counter to the idea that these cases are reanimations of old-school racism.

But the left needs for lynchings to be happening, because they need it to be 1953. But despite their nostalgia for those days, it’s not. Instead we live in the Jussie Smollett Century.

THEY USED TO BURN HERETICS, BUT THIS IS MORE LAUGHABLE THAN INCENDIARY: Episcopal Priest Claims ‘God Is Trans,’ Mary ‘Assigned’ Jesus the Wrong Gender.

NEWS: D.C. Circuit: Anthropic’s “Supply Chain Risk” Designation Stemmed from Its Refusing to Agree to Contract Terms, Not Its Speech.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘Without a single command from the ground’: Asteroid-mining company to launch world’s 1st autonomous space mission in 2027.

GLORIOUS RESULTS OF A MISSPENT YOUTH: James Webb Space Telescope looks back in time, finds our ancient universe wasn’t as pure as we thought.