October 3, 2026
THE NEW SPACE RACE:
SpaceX has launched every rocket in their lineup, 3 different vehicles, from 4 different pads, in 3 different states this week.
They also lifted basically every “category” of payload. Starlink, Crew, Commercial, and Military.
WHAT. A. WEEK. pic.twitter.com/4fmkvzj9OY
— Ken Kirtland IV (@KenKirtland17) October 2, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Cornell brings back #MeToo.
#MeToo is back – thanks, largely, to Cornell University. A former student, identified only as Jane Doe, alleged in a civil suit last month that seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity drugged and gang-raped her in October 2024. Most of the subsequent social media outrage blurs a few distinctions. Prosecutors looked at her initial 2024 police statement and decided not to file charges. Cornell ran its own Title IX process. The county DA says the new civil lawsuit is “dramatically different” from what she told police at the time – as her original statement suggested she consented, and that when she raised concerns, the men stopped. The 2024 statement recounts Doe participating in three ketamine-fueled threesomes with four men, while three others burst into the room and snort ketamine off her naked body. The DA has since reopened the case and sent it to a grand jury, which could bring charges.
You would not know much about what Doe told the police initially from the social media clamor around the story – which centers on some vulgar but not incriminating Snapchat messages between the fraternity members, and how few of them were solely disciplined by having to write essays. After news of the civil suit broke, the Cornell Daily Sun newspaper decided to name the seven men it accused. Since then, Instagram, TikTok and X have been awash with outrage. People are being encouraged to call Cornell University and complain. At least one of the seven has been fired from his job at a North Carolina bank. A man unfortunate enough to share a name with another of the seven has been harassed online. On TikTok, mothers are filming themselves hectoring their male children about sexual assault, to broadcast that they’re not raising rapists. “Remove their heads in a public setting, it’s the only answer,” declares one Instagram post featuring the fraternity brothers’ faces, that has 200,000 likes.
Yet the events of the days that followed the night of the October 19, 2024 party merit consideration. The New York Times has more than 1,000 pages from Cornell’s internal investigation, which tell a broader story than the civil lawsuit or viral rage would suggest.
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— Laocoon of Troy (@LaocoonofTroy) October 3, 2026
I SUSPECT PUTIN HAS REACTIVATED THE OLD SOVIET BIOWAR APPARAT:
Pneumonic plague can be nearly 100% fatal if not treated in time and can kill you within 24 hours. WTF were they doing with this?
— Chris (@TiberiusChris) October 3, 2026
Cipro and Levaquin are very effective treatments. Unless, of course, the strain has been weaponized with antibiotic resistance.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE TOLD ME THE OPPOSITE: Cannabis Users More Likely to Commit and Experience Violence, Study Finds.
GREAT FOR WORKING OUT: Swiftwick ASPIRE Zero No Show Performance Socks. #CommissionEarned
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Hotter Sex After 40: Exploring Age-Related Challenges and Benefits.
LIVING THE DREAM: Porsche Driver Caught Doing 194 MPH On An 81 MPH Road.
EARLY PRIME BIG DAY DEAL: COWAY Air Purifier for Home. #CommissionEarned
UNSURPRISING: Anti-Gun States Adopt the Jim Crow Playbook.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: ANCEL AD310 Classic Enhanced Universal OBD II Scanner. #CommissionEarned
THE DEEP SEVENS ARE AT WORK: Something Deep Inside the Earth Is Messing With Time—and Making Days Longer Than 24 Hours.
IS PARIS BURNING?
Lebanese 🇱🇧 journalist and author Brigitte Gabriel:
“When I was born, Beirut was considered the ‘Paris of the Middle East.’ Today, Paris is considered the Beirut of Europe.” pic.twitter.com/HybA8wN51T
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) October 3, 2026
CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?
The DC Foreign Policy community version of what @GreenPlusAnE writes below is;
"I went to the right schools, I did the right internships, I met the right people, even my Mom says I am the smartest. — So why does Orange Man @POTUS and a bunch of farmers get to be in charge?" https://t.co/mcCTnpAZrN
— Mark Simon (@MarkSimonHK) October 3, 2026
FROM THE ONGOING “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?” CHRONICLES: Tucker Carlson Asks if Fighting the Nazis Was a Good Idea: ‘Why Fight the Second World War in the First Place?’
Tucker Carlson repeatedly questioned a former U.K. member of parliament as to why the country fought the Nazis in World War II.
The former Fox News host interviewed Jacob Rees-Mogg, a member of the Conservative Party who has supported sending aid to Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. While it was predictable that Carlson would interrogate Rees-Mogg over his position on that issue – which he did – Carlson also asked whether fighting the Nazis was worth it.
Carlson said he opposes the killing of innocent civilians, which has happened in innumerable wars, including WWII. That prompted this exchange:
REES-MOGG: I think it’s very difficult to have fought the Second World War without innocent people being killed.
CARLSON: No one tried I’ve never understood. Why fight the Second World War in the first place?
“Well,” Rees-Mogg said after a pause. “That’s a very fundamental question.”
Back in 2022, Mark Judge explored the tiny man with the tiny moustache’s views on “the violent Darwinian struggle for survival” and concluded: Adolf Hitler Thought More Like Nancy Pelosi Than Donald Trump.
That’s a rather spicy take, but I think we can safely conclude that based on the damage to the GOP he’s trying to inflict, Tucker is thinking much more like Nancy Pelosi than Trump these days as well.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Lucky Brand Men’s Venice Burnout V Neck Tee. #CommissionEarned
YOU’D THINK BY NOW THEY’D KNOW BETTER: Floridians demand school fire educator who said Jews “control everything”, that Israel is a “fake country”.
BRYAN CAPLAN: Flashback: Why I Am Homeschooling.
SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL HAKEEM JEFFRIES, AND REUTERS: That the U.S. economy under Trump 47 is anything but in the tank. It’s my latest AND THEN THERE ARE THE FACTS column on Substack.
MORE MSM WISHCASTING: Justice Alito to Retire Next Year?
