MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

TOO MANY OF THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN OUTRIGHT FABRICATIONS. AND A GALVANIZE-WOMEN STORY THAT COMES OUT A MONTH BEFORE THE ELECTION IS DOUBLY SUSPICIOUS.

It’s not 2014 anymore. Heck, it’s not even 2017 anymore. The “believe women” bandwagon ran into the ditch about the same time that feminists decided we must believe Christine Blasey Ford.

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 28, 2026

WELL, OF COURSE: Violent History of Criminal Illegal Aliens in Jersey Ignored by Democrats and News Media. “Democrats and news media” — have those terms ever been more redundant?

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Media manipulates economic gloom — and it’s all about the midterms.

THE ANACONDA PLAN: Trump’s Iran strategy is working — the ayatollah suffers as oil flows again.

LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: Microbes could survive on Saturn’s moon Enceladus — and scientists think we can find them.

SO THAT WOULD BE THREE FEET EVERY THOUSAND YEARS: Over 70% of US Coastal Areas Are Sinking Faster Than 1 Millimeter a Year.

#RESISTANCE. Masked vigilantes are raiding neighborhoods in England because the government has become so spineless.. “This is the nightmare scenario that Britain’s security services have long feared.”

All they had to do to prevent it, was their job.

WHY IS CORNELL A CESSPIT OF RAPE?

This is how Cornell University is getting the figure that 35% of undergraduate women experienced "nonconsensual sexual contact" in 2025. Or in other words, that over a third of all undergraduate women were "raped," to use popular parlance pic.twitter.com/sD88o1TobO

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) September 28, 2026

NEW YORK POST: How did Britain get so obscenely terror-friendly?

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Discover a New Potential Treatment Target for High Blood Pressure.

EDUCATIONAL:

Fixed it for you. https://t.co/8qdxJPVUXY pic.twitter.com/Zg5tLHMS6W

— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) September 28, 2026

WHAT HAPPENED:

SpaceX has released a new blog post about Starship’s 14th flight today.

“During Starship’s ascent burn, a single Raptor vacuum engine shut down early. Starship still achieved its planned, passively safe suborbital trajectory by burning its remaining five engines for longer than… pic.twitter.com/0BGft7pyaV

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 28, 2026

Starship has a lot of engines, which both increases the likelihood of one failing and the ability to deal with failure if it happens. That said, the Raptors, while great engines, probably need a bit more refinement to increase reliability. No doubt that will happen.

Related:

The basic success of the Starship 14 orbital test payload deployment and re-entry means that although engineering problems remain, there can be no more doubt that the industrial process of providing cheap access to space is here. While the focus was on the test vehicle the…

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) September 28, 2026

OKAY, THIS IS MORE LIKE A PLOT FOR A NOVEL THAN A SERIOUS THEORY. But imagine that elements within the British security apparatus — perhaps suborned by Iran, perhaps following an agenda of their own — set this up. Perhaps they wanted an excuse to crack down, perhaps an excuse to tell the US to leave. Then they were busted by some random farmer who called local police who didn’t know not to arrest the terrorists. Now they need to make this go away lest the real agenda leak out, so they let them out on bail and they’ll never be heard from again.

The farmer and local cops disrupted an active surveillance operation on the suspects, who were either on a dry run or using fake explosives that were covertly swapped out on them, according to this Washington Examiner column. Which is entirely speculative, based on what little…

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 28, 2026

Probably not.

UPDATE:

The farmer who called in the RAF Fairford incident has spoken. And she's not having Wes Streeting's spin.

There were "definitely more than five," she says. Eight to ten. Faces covered. All dressed the same, "almost you'd have thought perhaps it was what they'd been told to…

— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes) September 28, 2026

NOTHING GOOD: This Is What Happens When the Government Runs Health Care.

PROGRESS: Trump Approves Fuel Economy Rollback That Gives Gas Cars More Room: The U.S. president said the decision will make cars more affordable and bring back jobs.

SURE: Next Up: Look for Blue States to Enact a Height Requirement to Buy Handguns.

HMM: Molecular biologist says one pill could reverse aging, but is it too good to be true?

ON THE WAY TO MAKING OBESITY A LIFESTYLE CHOICE: Experimental weight-loss shot helps patients keep weight off with fewer injections.

HMM: Zepbound Is Known for Weight Loss, but Scientists Just Found Something Unexpected.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Ceuta Confirms First Monkeypox Case After Summer Border Surge from Morocco.

THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS PROMISED:

New footage from one of the Starlink V3 satellites deployed today. Amazing pic.twitter.com/NPqZpavBaD

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 28, 2026

SpaceX's Starship rocket just performed a flip maneuver and splashed down on target in the Pacific Ocean. Seems like tower catch could be a go for flight 15. pic.twitter.com/LrkvxLGkeB

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) September 28, 2026

FIGHT THE POWER:

🚨BREAKING: Marine Le Pen celebrates MAJOR VICTORY in French Senate elections

Le Pen QUADRUPLED the number of Senators she has in the French Upper House meaning she can now form a Caucus and call votes

Things are changing in France
They're all going home pic.twitter.com/KmR2C27qFO

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) September 28, 2026

LOL:

We did, Chris, we did.

The rules of the Internet now say we get to mock you mercilessly.

I say this as an Internet chud. https://t.co/PpmxpVQary

— Grummz (@Grummz) September 28, 2026

Related:

what Elon Musk has done to make my life better:

– electric cars
– satellite internet
– saved free speech

what Jeff Bezos has done to make my life better:

– nationwide next-day delivery
– architecture that powers the internet

what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have done to make… https://t.co/WSu5FFeYHs pic.twitter.com/wgdzE7ynCk

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) September 28, 2026