GOOD NEWS ABOUT ACADEMIA, WITH A GIANT ASTERISK: Fewer students now say violence or shoutdowns can be acceptable. But nearly one in three still tolerate violence at least rarely, and students are becoming less tolerant of controversial speakers.
October 9, 2026
SPOILER: PRICES WENT UP.
Seattle city council wanted to help "exploited" gig workers.
So they forced delivery apps to pay drivers MORE.
"I wouldn’t assume that prices are going to go up," said one politician.
But prices DID go up.
@judgeglock of @ManhattanInst explains how regulation backfired: pic.twitter.com/khAKfvdcSM— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) October 8, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Don’t Get Too Excited About the AWOL Dem Candidates. “Democrats can weather horrible campaign optics because — DRUMROLL PLEASE — their flying monkeys in the mainstream media run interference for them. Aging, impressionable voters still watch the evening news and David Muir won’t be wondering what’s going on with any late-stage campaign weirdness. If Talarico says he has the 90-year flu then, by golly, he has the flu.”
GOD SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM RABBIS WHO CAN’T RECOGNIZE EVIL LITERALLY STARING THEM IN THE FACE:
FORTUNATELY, YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY UP FRONT: The American Dream Costs $5.3 Million — And It’s Getting Pricier.
The report from Investopedia analyzes eight major milestones — getting married, owning a home, buying new cars, raising two children and sending them to college, retirement, paying for healthcare, owning pets, and taking an annual vacation. The total costs associated with these milestones were $5,320,133 in 2026, a 4.1 percent increase from $5,111,632 in 2025, according to the same report, which reviewed data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Looking at each individual milestone, the cost of homeownership increased by 7.7 percent. Similarly, the cost of raising two children and sending them to college increased by 8.9 percent, and the cost of retirement also increased by 2.2 percent, according to the report.
Interesting that the cost of retirement is the one item that went up less than the rate of inflation.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
Cornell promotes this kind of stuff as “healthy,” students participate in these sexual activities, Jane Doe texted “our bodies, our choice” after, and now the madness today?
But the damage has been done…
Men are “the problem.”If you want fewer young men disengaging from… https://t.co/OUVpfyqLBW
— Lisa Britton (@LisaBritton) October 8, 2026
IT’S ALL GRIFT AND GRAFT: Jonathan Turley: The Education Cartel and the Blue State School Scam.
NOTHING GOOD: What Has Become of Charlottesville, Virginia? The short answer is that the crazy 20% have bullied their way into control.
ICYMI: HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
.@USLaborIG: "I am announcing a historic investigation into the J-1 visa fraud involving nine major American universities — Pit, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT. Subpoenas have been served; investigations are underway." https://t.co/vHo52alxKG pic.twitter.com/cc0qLzTxnk
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 8, 2026
MAKE SOUTH AMERICA GREAT AGAIN:
The third-place finisher behind Bolsonaro and Lula — Augusto Cury — has just come out and endorsed Flavio Bolsonaro in the run-off.
Lula's prospects for overcoming his first-round deficit grow dimmer by the day. https://t.co/WTCrY8zKUA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 8, 2026
Grok translates Pancher’s tweet as, “Augusto Cury has decided to support Flávio Bolsonaro, according to an investigation by @igorgadelham
Support video is expected to be released in the next few hours.”
I MEAN, NO WONDER HE’S GONE INTO HIDING:
Democrat Nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas James Talarico: “I don't care where you get the revenue, I don't care what taxes you have to raise.” pic.twitter.com/KTzySiCbGE
— America (@america) October 8, 2026
And I was joking when I posted this yesterday…
10 days isn't the flu. 10 days is "caught in bed with a live boy AND a dead girl."
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) October 8, 2026
…or at least I thought so.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Abdul El-Sayed Rakes in Thousands From Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Donors, Records Show.
I’M BEGINNING TO THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK TO SINGLE-SEX COLLEGES, CURFEWS, AND DORM MOTHERS.
I almost literally cannot think of a worse idea than paying college women tens of thousands of dollars to make Cornell-quality rape claims. https://t.co/lKP0CNP2AM
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) October 9, 2026
OLD AND BUSTED: The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again.
—Then-Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley, 1992.
The New Hotness? Wall Street Journal vs. Treasury Secretary Bessent Erupts as Pre-Election Blood Feud.
Too bad the Ultimate Fighting Championship stage has been taken down from the White House lawn, because if it were still there, it’d provide a venue for what is emerging as one of the bitterest and most consequential political and economic fights in the run-up to the midterm elections: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent versus the Wall Street Journal, and in particular the Journal’s Federal Reserve reporter and “chief economics correspondent,” Nick Timiraos.
Bessent targeted Timiraos in a social media post in August that has amassed nearly 4 million views. “One of the highlights of the Warsh Fed has been watching stenographers posing as journalists, like the WSJ’s Nick Timiraos, reduced to reporting Fed backroom gossip because they’re incapable of performing real economic or monetary policy analysis without being spoon-fed,” Bessent wrote.
The feud got even hotter this week, with the Journal publishing a breathless front-page news article on October 7 under four bylines with the not exactly earthshattering scoop that Bessent “can excoriate staff when he is frustrated”—as if no one in the Wall Street Journal newsroom, or Washington Bureau, or elsewhere in the media empire controlled by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, has ever expressed frustration in direct terms at a staffer. Buried in the article is the disclosure that “the Treasury Department blocked a Journal reporter from attending a press conference” and “the department also revoked the credentials of reporters from the Journal … to cover a G-20 finance ministers summit in North Carolina.”
Roger Kimball responds:
It is Thursday, so it is time for another hit piece by @wsj on the Trump administration! Today's entertainment is a tongue-clucking piece about @SecScottBessent, the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton. You wouldn't know that from this column:…
— Roger Kimball (@rogerkimball) October 8, 2026
Exit question:
What has happened to the WSJ?
I’ve subscribed for years.
But the financial information is largely gone – and a concentration on markets, investing and economics has given way to Politico style blogging.
The Bureau Chief is a former Washington Post lefty who has hired former…
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 7, 2026
LIGHTNING DEAL: 6-in-1 1200W Rotatable Steam Mop. #CommisisonEarned
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Trump Texas Trip Targets Talafreako. Trans-Touter? Truant. “Guy lives in Austin and can’t even make it to events in Austin? Something smells.”
Related: Where in the World Is Jimmy Talarico? We Miss Our Favorite Heretic!
YEP, IT TURNS EVERY SOCIETY INTO A NEPOTISTIC ONE: Central planning also centralizes the importance of “who you know”.
And remember, selecting people for any reason other than competence degrades competence. Every time.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE (CONT’D): Teacher at elite $33K private school groomed, sexually assaulted boy on class trip: cops.
YOUR BASE IS WHO YOU PANDER TO:
El-Sayed refuses to publicly support the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, because, as he admitted on leaked audio, he doesn't want to alienate radicalized pro-Khamenei/pro-Hezbollah voters in Dearborn.
Great questioning from @AudreyFahlberg , one of the few reporters to… https://t.co/ea8TUxlrlV
— Alana Goodman (@alanagoodman) October 8, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
100% convinced that Cornell is little more than a Democrat psyop weeks before a midterm election that’s shaping up to be brutal for them. https://t.co/DbthQLKhWG
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 8, 2026
(Also, eschew all modalities of cocksuredness.)
THIS COULD PROVE TO BE AN OVERLY GENEROUS ASSESSMENT: Talafreako Is ‘Sick,’ Becerra Is Hiding, and Dems Know Their Candidates Are Too Dumb to Campaign.
FROM MARY CATELLI: Writing and Reflections Volume 3: Essays on the Writing Process from World-Building to Words.
Reflections on the many and far-flung fields that writing can touch upon, from original inspiration to the final work.
Magic and science. Talking birds and cats. Ideas and their origins. Magic, in schools, on the battlefield, and whether it is evil. Fairy tales. Exposition. Utopias. Wandering heroes in series. Wicked stepmothers and their motives. And more.
ROLL LEFT AND DIE: ‘The Social Reckoning’ – Sorkin’s Anti-Trump Sequel Stumbles.
WE CAN HOPE: Long interview with Jeff Bezos reveals he is become a born-again capitalist.
But I wish he hadn’t let Amazon go so completely.
