DIVERSITY PROBLEM: 98.2% of political donations from Rutgers University faculty members went to left-wing candidates.

TRUE.

A popular republic coming undone due to the unbounded passion for equality? If only people had predicted that. https://t.co/ymhiLwbLgK

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) October 29, 2026

SOME PEOPLE ARE POISON. THEY’RE USUALLY LEFTIST PEOPLE.

The center of the Brazil story is not Flavio Bolsonaro but rather Alexandre de Moraes, who has utterly destroyed the credibility of the Brazilian justice system and its democracy through years of escalating persecution against critics, dissidents and political opponents, all… https://t.co/QNxyEIAArN

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2026

“I HAD SPENT YEARS DISMISSING THOSE WARNINGS BECAUSE THEY CAME FROM REPUBLICANS.”

"Worse, a remarkable number of the things Republicans had warned about seemed to be happening right in front of me. I had spent years dismissing those warnings because they came from Republicans.

That was a deeply uncomfortable realization."

There are a great many quotable… https://t.co/TZGFAZm04D

— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) October 28, 2026

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Victor Davis Hanson: Obama’s Latest Attacks on Trump Backfire Spectacularly.

Obama is a synthetic creation; his actual political skills are modest.

HMM:

Barack Hussein Obama was spotted in London a couple weeks ago. He was on his "what comes next" speaking tour.

Who did he meet with? 👀👀

Barack Obama is Donald Tusk’s dear friend. Today Donald Tusk is attempting a coup against the democratically elected President.

All roads… pic.twitter.com/4bVlwrFobO

— Erikaaa (@ErikaCA47) October 31, 2026

Related:

If the EU can organise a coup against one of its own members it should be equally acceptable for the people to remove corrupt western governments.

— Christopher Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) October 31, 2026

It is entirely acceptable.

WHEN THEY FACE BLOODY REVOLUTIONS, I WILL NOT SYMPATHIZE:

You can cancel an election and ban the winner from running (Romania), you can ban your opponents from ever running again (Hungary), you can threaten to ban the main opposition party and subject it to relentless investigations by the secret police (Germany), you can threaten a ban…

— Jacob Reynolds (@jacobreynolds) October 30, 2026

I HAVE HEARD THIS FROM UNDERGRADUATES WHO ARE SEARCHING FOR JOBS:

I can tell you this stuff is true. A family member, educated, accomplished etc, looked for work for more than a year and became so disgusted by the overapplication of AI to the process (which treats applicants like units, not humans) that he decided to write a novel (2 agents…

— Elizabeth Scalia (@TheAnchoress) October 30, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

SPACEWAR: Look up! China’s mysterious space plane is visible over the US this week.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: SpaceX’s Starfall capsule delivers cargo for US Air Force in landmark ‘point to point’ space mission.

DEMONS: Maxwell’s Demon Can Extract Energy From Hidden Memories, Study Finds.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover a New Dinosaur Species Hiding in Plain Sight for 25 Years.

CHANGE: The Peptide Rush Has Begun.

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

PINING FOR THE FJORDS: Ford Killed the Escape. Now It Looks Like the Popular SUV Might Come Back.

RULE OF LAW: Lawsplainer: California Officials Will Be Federally Prosecuted If They Ignore Evidence Of Ineligible Aliens Voting In Federal Elections: The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has recognized that ”deliberate ignorance” when “aiding and abetting” others to commit crimes satisfies the “knowledge” element in criminal cases.

SCIENCE: Uh Oh…Anti-Gunners’ Own Data Shows ‘Violence Interruptors’ Make Violence Even Worse.

ALIENS: Retired Navy admiral warns of decades-long UAP ‘cover-up,’ points to deep ocean as ultimate hiding spot.

FASTER, PLEASE: Targeted drug shrinks tumors in 3 out of 4 patients with advanced breast cancer.

MEAT, MEAT, MEAT. Steak for cramps, liver for beauty: How meat became all the rage in women’s wellness.

THE COLLEGE FIX: No identified Republican professors found in Georgia Tech’s public policy department.

WHAT’S UP WITH UTAH? Trans student cited for assault after saying Republicans ‘should be shot’ at University of Utah.

#JOURNALISM:

The Ilhan Omar "married her brother" story was originally broken by @realDSteinberg at the @powerlineUS blog and @PJMedia_com in 2018. Media covered it only to try to bury it.

It was treated as a conspiracy theory. Now we know the feds knew it in 2016.https://t.co/gjgpvH4Rx0

— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) October 29, 2026

AND YOU CAN TELL THE TROOPS LOVE HIM FOR IT.

To say nothing of the fact that he's experienced the most hostile media treatment imaginable.

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) October 30, 2026