PEOPLE MAGAZINE WAS MUCH BETTER WHEN GENE BARRY WAS PUBLISHING IT:

The crowd “booing” according to @people pic.twitter.com/dnaK0ajbK2

— Brutus Maximus (@BRVTVSMAXIMVS) September 27, 2026

Related:

Pretty much most the reasons people state for why they are upset about Trump is based on some fake news they read or were exposed to, whether that person is a dem or republican.

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 27, 2026

JOHN LUCAS: College Football and a Culture Clash With Lessons Learned — Or to be Learned: And a hat tip to a classy football coach.

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BUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP: Trump Cancels $810M for Illegal Immigrants, Race-Based Programs.

President Trump invoked a rare and legally contested power Friday to cancel $810 million in congressionally approved spending, targeting programs for illegal immigrants and a slate of federal initiatives explicitly organized around race and DEI.

The request hits 11 funding pools at seven departments and agencies. It also landed with just five days left in the fiscal year. That’s the point of the disputed “pocket rescission” maneuver: the money runs out before Congress gets its normal 45 days to consider the cuts.

The biggest piece is $567 million at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for services to refugees, asylees, unaccompanied minors, and other non-citizens.

The White House called them “pro-illegal immigration programs” and said the money is no longer needed because illegal border crossings have fallen sharply.

But immigration spending was only part of the package.

Several of the rescissions hit programs explicitly organized around race or ethnicity.

Well, good.

CHANGE: “Young American men had a hot, hot, hot summer in the labor market—as long as you count working as a hot summer. A larger share of native-born men in their early twenties found themselves employed than in any of the previous five summers.”

IT IS A BAD JOKE:

I wish it was a bad joke. https://t.co/SUqhJJyvsH

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 27, 2026

It just also happens to be real.

AMERICA HAS SENT GUNS TO BRITISH CITIZENS FIGHTING DICTATORS BEFORE:

When they pissed off this guy, they pissed off someone who has fought insurgencies, in Iraq and Afghanistan, knows how to run one, and knows the British counterinsurgency’s game from the inside.

They’ve succeeded in pissing off other British vets who know the same things.

What… https://t.co/BdLnvhSIXC

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 27, 2026

BRITAIN IS A DISGRACE.

The prosecution of Danny Tommo is not a show of strength. It is a sign of weakness.

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 27, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: The Latest Attempt to Impeach Trump Criminalizes Not Being a Leftist. “Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), an otherwise completely obscure far-left backbencher, has just made a bid not to slide into total oblivion once he finally skulks out of the Capitol for the last time. He has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, and while many other quixotic leftists have done that, Cohen has distinguished himself in filing no less than 26 articles of impeachment against Trump, which has got to be a record.”

THE BAD NEWS IS MOSTLY JUST A DEMORALIZATION OP: Some Good News in the Midst of All the Wave Election Talk.

KEEPING UP WITH THE 21ST CENTURY:

As we enter the age of AI, robotics and widespread automation there is zero reason for more mass immigration of low-skilled labor…

Immigration at this point in American history should be extremely restrictive. https://t.co/WdnLeJjf4R

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) September 27, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

CREATINE UPDATE: Popular Supplement Increases Strength Even Without Exercise, Study Shows.

CHANGE:

Nicki Minaj is jumping into the upcoming midterm elections, insisting that all young voters must do one thing — vote Republican.

🎥 Fox News pic.twitter.com/fhslRW9Xe5

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 27, 2026

CHANGE:

JUST IN: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent declares the U.S. economy has entered “the acceleration phase.”

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) September 27, 2026

LONGEVITY: Scientists Put Anti-Aging Treatments to the Test – These Ones Actually Changed Biological Age.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: FAA Clears SpaceX For Starship 14 Flight.

WHY NOT BOTH? Why balance training may matter more than cardio after 50.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: 2027 Mercedes S580 4Matic First Test: The Best S-Class Yet?

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GOOD QUESTION: SAF Wants to Know Why ATF Thinks Rare Breed’s Patent Litigation Is Any Of Its Business.

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SUNDAY SMILES:

Satan Miraculously Turns Water Into Bud Light https://t.co/6xrXYhoPGy

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 27, 2026

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can a Submarine Survive A Nuclear Attack?

SEPTEMBER 26, 1960: THE NIXON-KENNEDY DEBATE:

September 26, 1960, is an interesting date in American history. Sixty-six years ago, as of the date I write this, was the first televised presidential debate in the United States, wherein the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon, squared off against the Democrat, an upstart Senator from Massachusetts named John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Opinions about the debate, then and now, are varied, as are opinions about every presidential debate before and since, but since this was the first one where the candidates appeared on screen in American homes, things were a little different. Two years ago, the Conversation’s W. Joseph Campbell examined this debate and compared it to the 2024 Trump/Biden debate, and their report is still worth reading.

The run-up to the Joe Biden-Donald Trump debate at the end of June 2024 has brought reminders about the first-ever televised presidential debate – and how Vice President Richard Nixon’s sweaty, haggard appearance that autumn night in 1960 opened a pathway to the White House for the tanned and telegenic Sen. John F. Kennedy.

That, at least, is conventional wisdom about the Kennedy-Nixon debate of Sept. 26, 1960: Image prevailed, rewarding Kennedy and punishing Nixon.

“Kennedy went on to narrowly win the election that most say he never would have had a shot at without that first debate,” Time magazine declared in 2016, in recounting the greatest missteps in political debates. “It seems Nixon’s fatal flub was in failing to recognize the power of the visual image.”

Or as Max Frankel, then the executive editor of The New York Times, wrote sardonically several months after Nixon’s death in 1994, “Nixon lost a TV debate, and the Presidency, to John F. Kennedy in 1960 because of a sweaty upper lip.”

Or to put it another way, Kennedy won thanks to a lot of help from Don Hewitt of CBS News, who was supported him: “Hewitt convinced JFK to wear pancake make-up to soften the harsh glare of the studio klieg lights. During the broadcast, Hewitt instructed the camera operators to frame Kennedy in profile with a wide angle. For Nixon, Hewitt ordered straight-on extreme close-ups — the equivalent of a mug shot. Don Hewitt, by the way, perfected his craft as founder and producer of CBS’ 60 Minutes. The ‘villain’ of each 60 Minutes segment has always gotten the Nixonian treatment. (Welcome to the world of objective television journalism.)”