PROGRESS: Drug Prices Are Finally Falling: The Trump administration’s policies are helping bring down prescription drug costs and expand access to popular medications like GLP-1s.

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

OPEN THREAD: Yeah, the night’s not over. You’re not trying hard enough.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Planetary defense: How military and civil satellites are watching fireballs to help keep Earth safe from space rocks.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: The Eerie True Story of The Nightmare Face Haunting The Internet. “Among the hundreds of Loab iterations Supercomposite has summoned into being, many feature dismembered or screaming children in the background. Some AI-generated images were so grotesque that the artist decided not to share them publicly.”

RICH-MOGGING BILL GATES:

Elon is The Master of His Domain 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/w6THUp0dmY

— TheMastiffMafia (@mafia_mastiff) November 2, 2026

Elon is always amusing.

Also, “I made Microsoft!” isn’t the flex Bill seems to think it is . . .

UPDATE: It’s fake, but it’s funny.

A GALLON WEIGHS ROUGHLY EIGHT POUNDS, SO THAT’S A GOOD PRICE. OR, ALTERNATIVELY, SHE’S DRUNK.

The View’s Ana Navarro: “Ground beef is $6.30 a gallon. Guys, please vote these bums out.” pic.twitter.com/vLMjZNMbTN

— Bad Hombre (@Badhombre) November 2, 2026

NO, IT’S NOT METFORMIN THIS TIME. Scientists Say This Medication Could Be the Next “Wonder Drug.” “Researchers at Michigan Medicine also found that sotagliflozin suppresses excessive platelet activity, a process that can block blood flow to the heart or brain. Published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the findings suggest a possible explanation for the drug’s ability to reduce heart attack and stroke risk beyond its effects on blood sugar.”

ICYMI: I READ IT, I BLURBED IT, AND I RECOMMEND IT: Kurt Schlichter’s new book American Warlord.

Vic Kinkaid is a middle manager at a trucking company, answering to HR Karens and reading Roman history at night.

Then the world ends, and it turns out he's exactly the man America needs. pic.twitter.com/3SDZ4sgreq

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 30, 2026

PRO TIP: If you’re waling on someone with a stout stick like this, jab it like a spear, don’t swing it. What this guy is doing will just leave some bruises. Jabbing would break ribs, and it’s harder to block.

Seeing a white Christian and an Indian Sikh come together to whoop a criminal’s ass is the white pill you didn’t know you needed. pic.twitter.com/fwfyX8MOBO

— Frank McCormick (@CBHeresy) October 31, 2026

J.B. PRITZKER IS A JERK: Don’t Illinois Our Texas: Billionaire Governor Throws $1.2 Million at Abbott’s Democrat Challenger.

PREPPING: Being Prepared is a Choice. So is Choosing Not to Be. “Most of us can probably get on board with the idea that our military bases, areas critical to our national security, should indeed be self-sufficient enough that they won’t collapse or become paralyzed by either cyber or kinetic attacks on the power grid, etc. In fact, we might ask, why is this even a question? Why aren’t all military bases already up to this standard? You can answer those two previous questions for yourself. However, the primary question we should all be asking is this; if the government/military is taking active steps to protect its people and places from cyber attacks, terrorism, etc. should we be concerned?”

SOME SAY THE WORLD BEGAN IN FIRE, OTHERS SAY IT BEGAN IN ICE: The Solar System Was Choosing Fire Over Ice Right From The Beginning.

ONE-SIDED ERRORS.

Oh look – Katie Hobbs is trying to pull her stolen election bullshit again. https://t.co/r1HsOJgssE

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 2, 2026

BAD DENTISTRY: Woman has six brain MRIs for migraines—then doctors look somewhere else.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Turnabout is Fair Play: Pro-Gun Initiatives On the Ballot in Four States Tomorrow.

BAD FAT: Scientists Studied 2,244 Patients and Found a Hidden Danger of Even Mild Obesity.

MEANS NOTHING — 20 YEAR OLDS WERE ACES IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Learjet co-pilot in fatal Florida crash ID’d as Nathalia Gadelha, 20, who got her license in high school.

IS ANYONE REALLY SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS?

wait, she's a staffer?!

holy hell https://t.co/8fNvlz7YxU

— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) November 2, 2026

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Leftists’ masks are coming all the way off — revealing the ugly truth.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 95% of political donations from UC Boulder faculty members went to left-wing candidates.

Is it reasonable to expect bipartisan support for such a partisan institution as higher education has become?

THE SUPPLY OF CREEPY GIANT LEFTIST NGOS SEEMS ENDLESS:

PolicyLink is a creepy giant NGO which deserves a lot more attention. https://t.co/QUXjw2tqzM

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 2, 2026

SUE HER FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY. THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT.

🚨 UNREAL: The University of Michigan student caught on video shoving Jewish conservative Liz Benichou to the ground is ALREADY BACK OUT.

Police watched her do it. She resisted arrest. Then, as she was loaded into the cruiser, she screamed that she "should have f***ing killed"… https://t.co/fLwHKbiQQX

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) November 2, 2026

A federal lawsuit — and prosecution — for interference with civil rights would probably apply too.

CDR SALAMANDER: Russia’s Bloody Two Months of Losing Ground.

ALIENS: REVIEW: ‘Faith in Space: American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life’ by Paul C. Gutjahr.

WELL, LEFTISTS ARE EVIL, SO. . . .

Keep in mind, this is the man Democrats want to throw in jail and demonize at every chance they get. https://t.co/8zCa9Sfecb

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) November 1, 2026