LEFTISTS ARE KOOKS: Unhinged, Impaired Leftist Candidate Jaime West: ‘We Have Guns, Too.’

GOOD: Blue Origin is going all in on the New Glenn rocket.

MITOCHONDRIA NEWS: Scientists Found a Way to Upgrade the Powerhouses of Our Cells Without Shutting Them Down.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN USE: Going back to the dentist after years away? A dentist explains what the first visit is like, and why it’s less scary than you think.

SHOCKING NEWS: Colorful Sexual Enhancement Pills at Gas Stations May Contain Drugs Not Listed on Labels.

ME ON SUBSTACK ON ELON’S FLYING CARS, AND THE PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM.

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They’re saying this is the most American sentence ever typed https://t.co/GG9WIZ3bv9

— Mary Tiles Texas (@MaryTilesTexas) October 16, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): Monty Python’s Flying Car Circus:

I love this app 🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/WKY1Oh42HM pic.twitter.com/zM3mJgiTi7

— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) October 18, 2026

RELIGION NEWS: Rutgers scholar opposes integrated churches because black people may vote Republican.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New Silicon Valley academy offers higher-ed alternative as fewer Americans see college as important.. “Its launch comes as Gallup finds only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education ‘very important,’ down from 70 percent in 2013.”

COMMIES HATE THIS:

And, it's actually distributed, since you can't get the profit without the sale. Instead of being used to force the behavior you want.

You just want stuff for free so you can sit around getting fat. pic.twitter.com/MWiE2WHIej

— D.L. Campanile (@DLCampanile) October 17, 2026

IT’S COME TO THIS:

"Fraternities are raping us women repeatedly! Let us in!" https://t.co/qPEFDjpOh0

— Cadbury Cream James 🐣 (@James_PA10) October 16, 2026

FASCISM:

Sen. Slotkin just openly threatened to persecute anyone who worked for Trump, with the explicit goal of intimidating young conservatives. https://t.co/djptVKQYGP

— Evita Duffy-Alfonso (@evitaduffy_1) October 17, 2026

DAVID MASTIO: Harvard’s Faculty Lead Academia in Record Donations to Democrats in Key Senate Races. With large donations coming in at unprecedented levels, employees at colleges and universities under investigation by the Trump administration are focused on trying to turn the Senate blue.

JOHN LUCAS: The Constitution’s Red-Headed Stepchild — The Second Amendment.

SIGH.

You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh https://t.co/CP5aar5fYv

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 17, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Party on, dudes and dudettes.

WELL, WE CAN BRING BACK THE NINTH PLANET, PLUTO: It’s time to reassess the size of our solar system, scientists say.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Sherrod Brown Wanted Our Vietnam POWs Kept Captive to Protect Hanoi From US Bombs.

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh writes: “I was intrigued by the post, and I tracked down the letter.”

He adds: “As I understand it, the argument wasn’t that he wanted POWs kept captive. Rather, he was arguing that Vietnam wouldn’t rationally agree to releasing POWs before peace is negotiated. Am I mistaken on that? I also don’t think it’s terribly relevant what an 18-year-old thought or said 55 years ago, though I of course know that politics routinely stoops to that, as with the Mitt Romney school bullying claims.”

ALIENS: JWST Detected a Mysterious Signal From Empty Space. Nobody Knows What It Is.

EUROPE:

As France is burning, I keep thinking of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a few years ago 👇

He accurately predicted this. pic.twitter.com/EgQClncb2s

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 17, 2026

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Why most published research findings are still false: 94% of medical treatments lack evidence of benefits.

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.

ZOOM: 2028 Tesla Roadster First Look: Tesla’s New Supercar Can Actually Freaking Fly.

NO. Is Anyone Surprised the Gun Control Industry Has Gotten Behind Michigan Islamist Abdul El-Sayed?

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: 1,000-Foot ‘Invisible’ Waves Are Tearing Through the Deep Ocean.