OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

YES, PLEASE: SpaceX wants to launch Starship more than 450 times per year from South Texas.

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

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?

UNSURPRISING: Two-thirds of Americans want government help with surging health care costs — but ‘Medicare for All’ isn’t it.

SAFETY: RIVIAN VS. TESLA. “Both brands represent the pinnacle of modern automotive safety, but they each have their respective pros and cons.”

PROGRESS: With NFA Deregulation, Expect Designs to Change and the Lines Between Gun Makers and Suppressor Makers to Blur.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: The UN warns about ‘mind-reading’ technology.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: 2 giant Ramesses II statues, one wearing a double crown, discovered by man in Egypt.

THE PROMISES ARE BIG BUT THE RESEARCH IS MIXED: Peptides Are Everywhere—Here’s What Doctors Want You to Know Before Trying Them.

YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT #1 IS: The One Mistake Everyone Makes With Frozen Chicken.

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

NEVER TRUST CONTENT FROM GOOGLE: Google Blocked Times (London) Articles About Businessman Mason Soiza, Apparently Based on Unjustified DMCA Demands.

EDUCATION: Columbia Journalism School hosts discussion of book arguing ‘White America’ was conditioned to lynch black children.

#JOURNALISM:

513 days after Elon’s decline and fall…

He’s the World’s first trillionaire, National Medal of Science Award winner and just unveiled his flying car.

The Media truly does suck. pic.twitter.com/hIGiEUJzYA

— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 16, 2026

BOTTOM QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is Katie Zacharia a Lawyer? She has a law degree but didn’t take the bar and never practiced law, so no. But so what? Law degrees are generally useful — now that a liberal arts BA is worth about what a high school diploma used to be, they’re the closest thing to a liberal arts degree at the graduate level.

Plus, as John Hinderaker notes: “But coincidentally, it tracks exactly with another case: that of Abdul El-Sayed. El-Sayed has for years claimed to be a doctor: “Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed for years has publicly said he’s a physician — but there’s overwhelming evidence that he’s had no experience as a licensed medical doctor.” But he talks about doing “codes” and treating patients.

Guess which story the press covers.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Problem With America’s Military Arsenal.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Meet Abdul El-Sayed’s Academic ‘Inspiration’: A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering US Over Terror Ties.

THERE SHOULD BE: Talafreakout: Should There Be a Mental-Health Requirement for Lawmakers?

THERE ARE FEW BRAVE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS: Cornell lets itself be governed by an outrage mob. “Elite universities are supposed to be resilient and stalwart defenders of the truth. So, if Cornell is making decisions in a panic to avoid political backlash, what exactly makes it an ‘elite’ university?”

Elite universities are a myth.

OPEN THREAD: Show your work.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Scientists discover that some of the universe’s biggest explosions may have never happened at all.

A GOOD GUY WITH A GUN:

🚨 BREAKING: A bystander had already KlLLED the shooter at the Bend elementary school before police even arrived

And even CNN is admitting this would've been MUCH WORSE had that good guy with a gun NOT been there:

"We can only imagine, had that person with a firearm NOT been… pic.twitter.com/XC6uOjbh0m

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 15, 2026

Remember, the true first responders are the ones already on the scene.

MURDER WILL OUT: Oldest Known Spear Attack May Be Found in 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Remains.