FASTER, PLEASE: NASA Asked Several Former SR-71A Staffers To Help Secret Restart.

Aviation Week confirmed that the agency approached Relja, Tim Conners, another former NASA SR-71A test engineer and others over the summer with job offers to work on the return-to-flight project for Tail No. 844.

In meetings with the prospective rehires, Ash brushed aside all questions about why NASA wanted to go to the effort and expense of putting the Mach 3-capable SR-71A back in flight.

During his remarks at the All-in Summit, Isaacman provided some context for NASA’s overall campaign to reinvigorate the agency’s aeronautics research mission with a new stable of X-planes pursuing breakthroughs rather than incremental improvements over the state of the art.

“In the service of the first ‘A’ in NASA, we are rebuilding our X-plane fleet,” Isaacman said. “It will not be long before NASA is once again flying as high and as fast from decades past—and then even more.”

An agency spokesperson declined to elaborate on Isaacman’s comments or the reason for the removal of Tail No. 844 from the display position. NASA has not confirmed that the return-to-flight project exists.

“We recognize the interest in the SR-71 and its remarkable history at NASA but have no additional information to share regarding the aircraft at this time,” the spokesperson tells Aviation Week.

To achieve that goal, Ash’s project must somehow restore to airworthiness a 59-year-old airframe that has not flown in nearly 27 years, despite a lack of everything—trained crews, spare parts and a supply chain ready to build them.

It’s been done before, albeit with a very different type of plane: After a decade in the “Boneyard,” B-52 nicknamed “Wise Guy” back in action.

TALKING ABOUT NEGATIVE EMOTIONS TENDS TO REINFORCE THEM: Venting Doesn’t Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Research Finds.

NOTHING GOOD: Scientists Reveal What Could Happen if Yellowstone Erupted Now.

I DID NOT EXPECT THIS:

Sunny Hostin, a former sex crimes prosecutor, actually defends the Cornell 7. She argues that under New York State law, the girl consented and that the media is "reporting this story inaccurately. I think they're reporting it unfairly."
"The pictures of these young men who have… pic.twitter.com/ZbnJpS8G6R

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 29, 2026

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Apple Cider Vinegar Good for Digestion?

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University of Minnesota declares to new students Declaration of Independence has ’embodied sexist policies.’

Additionally, the university has “identity knowledge checks,” according to the report, where students have to match particular terms to definitions of terms common in identity politics such as “race,” “nationalist,” “sexuality,” and others.

Libs of TikTok said in a post with screenshots, “They also push radical gender ideology while conducting ‘identity knowledge checks.’ This university is a far-left indoctrination camp. They should be investigated and defunded.”

Also included in the screenshots was the definition of “gender identity,” which the material at the college claimed to be “different than sex assigned at birth.” The materials went further and said that gender identity “is your own, internal, personal sense of self expression” and that it can also include “male, female, or non-binary.”

There’s no reason for taxpayers to support these institutions.

NO IRS ANTI-FRAUD STRATEGY: Hard to believe the federal tax agency would lack a coherent strategy to combat and prevent tax fraud, but the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says they couldn’t find such a strategy.

SECURITY: New Investigation Reveals How Easily Connected Cars Can Be Hacked.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING AN EXTENDED SABBATICAL: Minneapolis audit finds ‘violence interrupter’ program vulnerable to fraud, favoritism, and political influence. “According to a recent 60-page report from the Minneapolis City Auditor’s Office, government investigators concluded that the city’s Neighborhood Safety Department fails to properly oversee the millions of dollars it pays nonprofit groups to patrol certain high-crime areas in place of police.”

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

Today we officially designated the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and Antifa as terrorist organizations per the anti-sharia law signed earlier this year. pic.twitter.com/qIZRIFa7au

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) September 29, 2026

Barely four months left in office, and he’s still executing.

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Momentum: We Really Need Another 100 Shooting Ranges Built Across The Country.

SOME SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: Federal Judge Strikes Down New York’s $75 Billion Climate Superfund.

A federal judge has struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, blocking the state from collecting $75 billion from fossil fuel companies to pay for projects addressing concerns the state attributed to climate change.

The Justice Department on Sept. 28 hailed the ruling as a “significant step in … protecting American energy from state overreach.” U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel issued a judgment against the law on Sept. 25 after stating two days earlier that it intruded on federal authority in multiple ways, including by regulating greenhouse gas emissions that cross state lines.

The law would have required large companies involved in fossil fuel extraction or crude oil refining to pay into a state fund over 25 years. Each company’s share would have been based on greenhouse gas emissions attributed to its products from 2000 through 2024. New York intended to use the money for infrastructure and other projects to help communities address issues the state blames on climate change.

The way I read it, the superfund was more of slush fund based on junk science.

I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING: Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Has Gone Completely Nuts With This Move.

I’M SURE THE VIEWS ARE PHENOMENAL, BUT DON’T BREATHE IN FROM A CLOUD CITY BALCONY:

There will be cloud cities on Venus, millions living on terraformed Mars, a vast increase in terrestrial wealth from mining the asteroids and moons of the gas giants, and morons will be saying "Elon Musk is an idiot. They haven't even gotten to Alpha Centauri."

— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) September 28, 2026

DAVID MANNEY: I Left Auschwitz a Year Ago, but It Hasn’t Left Me.

GET YOUR VITAMINS: Ensure Max Protein Milk Chocolate Shake. #CommissionEarned

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

We Asked AI To Recreate The Lesbian Bar Drama From Actual Reports pic.twitter.com/Agu2tAv2HB

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 28, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Russia raises 2027 military spending by 27%, budget documents show. “The documents showed that in 2026 the government will increase its net borrowing plan by 26% to 5 trillion roubles and spend 459 billion roubles — about 11% of the liquid part of its National Wealth Fund — to reduce the deficit. It also cut the oil and gas revenue estimate for 2026 to 7.6 trillion roubles from 8.9 trillion roubles previously.”

WHAT???

Absolutely brilliant move from Patrick Byrne. Well done. Imagine that a party to a lawsuit can just email the judge and get what they want almost instantly? If you are Dominion you don’t have to imagine – that is your reality. Why are these judges so corrupt? Many are… https://t.co/wuSz7BRYG1

— Lara Logan (@laralogan) September 29, 2026

From the replies: “Wow. I never understood that bluff — Fox rolling over on that settlement when it appeared that Dominion had unclean hands.”

And here’s the direct link to Byrne’s piece, which is probably the finest thing you’ll read all day.

SCIENCE: A “Moby Dick” Shipwreck Survivor Had a Theory About How a Whale Sank His Ship. 200 Years Later, He’s Been Proven Right.

AS IN, THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT’S IN THERE? Progressive Christianity Has a Scripture Problem.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: If You’re 40 (or Older!) You Should Be Taking These 7 Vitamins, According to Dietitians.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: The RAF Fairford Follies, Day Three.

With the news seemingly so dire, and reports that Fairford and other joint UK-US bases had been on heightened alert in the preceding days because of increased radical chatter, everyone wondered why Prime Minister Andy Burnham hadn’t called a Cobra meeting yet, which is their crisis management committee.

That’s where we left off.

When at last it was announced the PM was going to…

“…chair a COBRA meeting this afternoon about the RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot…”

…that word was overshadowed by everyone’s collective gasps of disbelief, as the five explosive and terrorist bomb plot suspects were suddenly turned loose on bail.

Full story, unbelievable as it is, at the link.

BRADLEY THOMPSON: Marriage Nihilism.

It is often said of postmodern “marriage” that it does not affect the marriages of heterosexual couples. As The Boston Globe asked in an oft-cited editorial defending same-sex marriage, “How would gay civil marriage affect your lives, liberties, or opportunities, or your own marriages?” This is the million-dollar question that has left conservatives and Christians stammering for an answer. This simple and seemingly commonsense question is no doubt important, but it is also a disingenuous and trivial evasion of the nature and point of marriage.

On a superficial level, a same-sex “marriage” would not affect my marriage for the same reasons that none of the various forms of postmodern marriage (e.g., polygamous, polyamorous, bigamous, incestuous, pedophilic, or interspecies) would affect my marriage. If two men want to marry, if a man and five women want to marry, if ten men and women want to marry each other, or if a woman wants to marry a dolphin, none of these unions will have any effect on my marriage in the same way that no other heterosexual marriage affects mine. Why not? On one level, all these relationships are private matters that do not have any bearing on my marriage, which is also a private matter. The simple truth of the matter is that there are only two people in the entire world who could affect my marriage: I am one and the other is my wife.

On a deeper and more fundamental level, same-sex marriage will unquestionably affect my liberties and opportunities in innumerable ways; it will affect my marriage indirectly and in meaningful ways; and it will certainly affect the way future generations experience marriage. The postmodern view of “marriage” will impose a variety of “negative externalities” on society and therefore actually harm the institution of marriage—and my marriage with it.

By democratizing and disconnecting marriage from its metaphysical roots, the postmodern view of marriage will inject a major dose of subjectivism, egalitarianism, and moral relativism into America’s marriage culture. It is grounded in the subjectivist premise that marriage is simply about individual wants, feelings, and needs, on the egalitarian premise that marriage is about companionship and all companionships are equal, and on the relativist principle that we cannot rank, distinguish, or judge one form of romantic union from another. The postmodern view makes different things the same and it makes unequal things equal.

Read the whole thing.