IT SEEMS THAT THINGS ARE GETTING MORE UNSTABLE IN CHINA:  Xi’s Purge and the War Over Taiwan.

MORE ACCURATELY, WE’VE CONFIRMED WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW:   We Know Why the Liberal Media Left Out Some Important Context Regarding the Latest Cornell Texts.

TO BE FAIR THE LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE AS TAUGHT TODAY ALSO DOESN’T GIVE YOU A TOEHOLD ON THE FUTURE:  Holding onto the past often requires more than a liberal arts degree.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM COMMIE MAMDANI?  Mamdani Monday: DSA Demands And The Italian Snub.

THIS CERTAINLY SEEMS TO BE TRUE:  Kimberly Guilfoyle Is A Headache The Administration Doesn’t Need. 

THIS, PRECISELY THIS:  “Happy to Mail That Ballot for You”?! What the right to vote does NOT require is governments providing every possible personal convenience imaginable.

If other rights were exercised like the right to vote, the government would bring me the gun of my choice and drive me to the range every time I want to practice.

IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH ON THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION, GO DO IT NOW:  A Speech You Need To Hear.

AND HE’D BE RIGHT:  Trump warns of a 1929-style depression if Dems win.

“GREEN” POLICIES, AS WE NOW HAVE THEM ARE LARGELY JUST ANTI-CIVILIZATION:  The Iran war didn’t make your heating bill this high. Blue-state energy policy did. The US has just 130 operable refineries, down from 301 in 1982.

NO, THAT’S ABSURD:  Does African Writing Sound Like AI? Spoiler: Only after LLMs arrive on the scene.

On the other hand, at what point does “read a lot of AI” devolve to write like an AI. Over time, I found myself doing things like confusing They’re and their when writing, while knowing the difference perfectly well, just because I read it wrong so often. And don’t get me started at using third person plural for third person singular, because I object to that with all my mind, and yet I read it so much that it’s started to invade.

Not yet. Probably. But how soon before we all sound a little like AIs?

OPEN THREAD: These palace walls are lined with excess. When wisdom calls I’m riding express.

THE NEW SPACE RACE, TERRAFORMING EDITION: Scientists engineer microbe to help humanity settle Mars.

ICE IX: A New ‘Super Ice’ Is 10 Times Stronger, Bringing It Close to The Strength of Concrete.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Scientists Discover Groundbreaking Clues to Tissue Regrowth and “Immortality” in the Ocean.

PRIORITIES:

NY rejects 16,000 Trump ICE detainers for illegal migrants accused or convicted in over 52,000 crimes https://t.co/z1JTRVrAqN pic.twitter.com/S541PQFwk4

— New York Post (@nypost) October 12, 2026

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Leaf Blower, Electric Cordless Leaf Blower. #CommissionEarned

GREAT GIFT: Small Pocket Multitool Knife for Men. #CommissionEarned

MICROBIOME NEWS: Very severe long COVID linked to differences in lung and mouth microbiomes.

ASKING (AND ANSWERING) THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Did the Soviet Union really fire a cannon from a space station? “At the time, Soviet officials were concerned that the United States was already developing spacecraft that could approach, investigate, and either capture or disable Moscow’s sensitive satellites. The natural response to such concerns was to develop defense systems capable of neutralizing such threats — and the result became legendary in some circles as one of the strangest weapons of the Space Race. But was this Soviet ‘space cannon’ ever successfully fired in orbit?”

I MEAN, WHEN YOU’RE A PROGRESSIVE DEM AND YOU CATCH THE EYE OF BIDEN’S DOJ…:

Friendly reminder…

The Biden DOJ launched an investigation into Ilhan Omar in 2024 over her finances, campaign spending, and dealings with a foreign citizen.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. pic.twitter.com/pZ0hPrLxQI

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) October 12, 2026

REVIEW: Honda Pilot 4WD vs. AWD: What the i-VTM4 System Really Does.

SCENES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Publisher removes 200 papers University of Chicago statistician wrote in under 1 year.

Scholars are raising questions about AI usage and academic quality after University of Chicago statistician Nicholas Polson wrote more than 200 academic papers this year using AI.

“The question needs to be: do these add anything of value and should we rely on them or not?” Ivan Oransky told The College Fix in a recent interview. Oransky is a co-founder of Retraction Watch, a website that tracks academic retractions, and a New York University journalism professor.

A tenured professor, Polson’s papers primarily focus on advanced math and statistics such as statistical parameterization and financial markets. Some of his research highlighted on the University of Chicago’s website includes measuring the “energy cost” of using AI and analyzing the odds of cheating.

Recently, however, concerns about the large number of articles Polson was producing prompted SSRN, a pre-print server for academic papers, to retract 253 papers that he wrote or co-wrote within the past year, The Washington Post reported.

In comparison, he wrote 10 published papers in 2018, 14 in 2017, and 12 in 2016, according to the “Research” page on his website.

When asked why it removed his papers, SSRN told the Post, “The most significant issue was the unusual submission activity.”

Heh, yes.

THE GOOD NEWS, MR. POTENTIAL ASYLUM-SEEKER, IS THAT THE GAZA ARABS MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY BUILDINGS LEFT TALL ENOUGH TO BOTHER THROWING YOU OFF OF…:

🇪🇸 A member of the Spanish LGBTQ+ community, draped in a Palestinian flag, says he'll seek political asylum in Gaza if the right wins the election 🙄 pic.twitter.com/JfOgbmFzrk

— Prof. Math & CS (@Zeev81309559) October 12, 2026

…the bad news is they’ll find a way, regardless.

ROGER SIMON: Ilhan Omar Investigated in Time for… My Book?

No, I have not been conspiring with Tom Homan.

That Homeland Security agents raided Ilhan Omar’s DC apartment at 6 AM this morning, hours after Bob Goldberg of The Zionist Times published his glowing review of my novel EMET (thank you, Bob), which contained the following parody of Omar being shipped out, is entirely coincidental:

“Bilan Ali, a Minneapolis congresswoman Golub [the novel’s rabbi protagonist] regards as anti-American and extraordinarily ungrateful to the country that took her in, is packed into a foam-lined box with energy bars and lemon Gatorade. The Golem ships her to Mogadishu on Emirates, because it is the safest and most luxurious carrier. She arrives healthy, in a beekeeper’s suit labeled ‘RETURNED TO SENDER,’ and flies home first class within hours.”

20 minutes into the future?

UPDATE: All This and World War Eleven:

The DOJ is calling the investigation into Ilhan Omar “World War Eleven”💀 https://t.co/xu68tgdqxx pic.twitter.com/9lyuO4HWD5

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 12, 2026

VICTORIA TAFT: Portland Antifa Records Ambush of ICE Officer in Biggest Self-Own Since the Last Time She Did It. “What a day of historic immigration firsts: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) releases 15,000 criminal illegal aliens into your neighborhood gen pop again after refusing to enforce Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, and suspected illegal alien Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) Washington, D.C. home is raided by the feds to track down the documents her family used to allegedly fraudulently get into the country. But something that’s not a first, and should be a last, are the crimes committed by an Oregon woman who has organized ambushes of ICE agents before and who has just done it again.”