You want weaponization? We’ll show you weaponization: 
Just the News is reporting that the DOJ confirmed an investigation against legacy media for antitrust violations.

“The investigation follows a move last month by the five broadcasters in the White House television pool to stop pool coverage of Trump after the administration restricted CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House.”

You wait here, I’ll go make popcorn.

YOU CAN’T HOLD PUBLIC OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE IF YOU CAN’T EVEN NAME THEM. A Minnesota school board silenced parents advocating for their disabled son because they dared mention school officials’ job titles. The full story in this weekend’s update.

ROGER KIMBALL: The West at a Crossroads: Excellence or Mediocrity? This loss of spiritedness—what the Greeks called θυμός—has had a far-reaching and depressive effect on the civilizations of the West.

Elon has it in spades.

THE SEMIOTICS OF THE LEFT CONFUSE EVEN THE LEFT:

@ayduk0

♬ original sound – Ayduk

Lol, “Gaycist.”

IF YOU’RE GOING TO BE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN NOVEMBER:  On November 17th, the Wall Street Journal’s (and the Manhattan Institute’s) Jason Riley will be at the University of San Diego to deliver the annual Bowes Lecture. (This is the same lecture that our own Glenn Reynolds delivered last year.)

Thanks to the late Joan Bowes, a fiery redhead,  we’ve been able to host a distinguished conservative speaker every year for the last 20 years or so.  Thanks, Joan!

WHY THE BLOB HATES HIM: Hegseth Puts Warfighting Skills at the Center of Military Promotions.

CONSPIRACY: The Activist Pipeline Behind Biden’s Visa-Overstay Enforcement Failure.

BUT OF COURSE: Colorado Dem Manny Rutinel Takes Credit for $350 Million Police Fund Proposed by Conservative Group and Passed by Voters: ‘Manny never once reached out to support the campaign for prop 130, which was a ballot measure passed by voters, not legislators,’ Advance Colorado VP says.
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THE END OF THE END OF HISTORY:

LIMITED TIME DEAL: HOSHANHO 5 Pieces Knife Set. #CommissionEarned

SHOCKER: French Street Protests: It’s Not Many Students, and Lots of Leftists and Islamists.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it.”

Perhaps this is why:

Because young men have learned that if they date a girl and it goes bad, she can come back and accuse them of rape two years after the fact.

She can strangle his children and the media will circle the wagons to protect her.

She can divorce him and take half of everything.… https://t.co/6hcohZ88LU

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) October 10, 2026

Amy’s tweet concludes, “She can divorce him and take half of everything. That’s why.”

GROUP LIBEL: Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can’t Be Actionable Group Defamation.

OPEN THREAD: I’ll be good. I’ll be good tomorrow.

A STURDY SPACECRAFT: SpaceX brings recovered Starship home to Texas after ocean saga.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: New Trial Compared Muscle Gains in Vegetarians And Meat Eaters. One Difference Stood Out.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Language and Linguistics for Decolonization and Liberation and for Peace and Community Building — From the River to the Sea in Palestine and Israel to the Mountaintops of Haiti and Beyond.”

That’s the class MIT is paying a professor not to teach.
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PRACTICALLY HUMAN: Scientists Discover That Chimpanzees Treat Friends by Different Rules.

I BELIEVE IT’S CALLED “JUDGMENT DAY.” OpenAI And Anthropic Are Planning For ‘The Day After.’ The Fear Is A Major AI-Driven Crisis.

THE EUROPEAN MIND CANNOT COMPREHEND THE GLORIES OF TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL:

Freddy has gotten VIP access to concerts, pro and college games, and World Cup games, offers for free flights on private jets, etc.

He was turned away from a Texas HS football game. https://t.co/KIxo4zrv4A

— The Poor Man (@ThePMGN) October 10, 2026

To be fair, neither can the California mind: ‘Douche’ father-of-seven sales exec who moved his family from California to Texas then BACK again is blasted for complaining about Austin’s ‘rude locals, bland culture, oppressive heat and Yelp’s bad food choices’ in scathing Op-Ed.

In parts of Texas it’s not just a monoculture, but a monoculture that doesn’t seem to be aware of its own blandness. Think about it: Are you ready to have your son judged based on his suitability for a future career in football? Are you ready to network by attending the local high school football game with the guys? Because that’s a thing in Texas.

Really? Who knew that Texans were obsessed with football, especially high school football? It’s not like Hollywood ever made a movie on that topic that was eventually transformed into a weekly TV series.

QUANTUM BIBLE: Quantum Physics demonstrates the reality that one entity can simultaneously have two or more identities. And Dr. Michael Quillen, former ABC Science Editor and Professor at Harvard and Cornell, demonstrates that Christianity makes sense in a quantum context.

FINALLY: World Without Cows.

“World Without Cows” isn’t officially an 81-minute cattle-industry advertisement arguing that beef is crucial to humankind’s survival, but skeptical viewers can be forgiven for thinking it is. The big takeaway from this documentary is: yes, as you’ve heard, cows (a catch-all here that incorporates all kinds of “beef animals,” to use the movie’s language) do require a tremendous amount of food themselves, and their care takes up a lot of real estate all over the world, but without them, much of the world would be even hungrier than it is at the moment, and…

We’ll unpack all this in due course. For now, let’s say that, for all its intelligence and sensitivity, watching this movie feels a bit like listening to an automobile dealer explain why we can’t live without cars. The author of this review, while not pro- or anti-cow, is far from a vegan, and in fact took the family to Charco Broiler before watching this movie, and is not likely to lead protests against the cattle industry or the businesses that support them anytime soon, but also wouldn’t stop anybody who wanted to. But many aspects of “World Without Cows” may set off your own b.s. detector, and not just because the movie’s pro-beef arguments focus largely on cows’ consumption and excretion of vegetable matter.

I’m holding out for the sequel, “World Without Farting Airplanes.”

OUT ON A LIMB: Why US critics are wrong to claim Britain should have stayed out of the Second World War.

The legacy of war is increasingly disputed in Britain too, however absurd that might sound, despite expressions of pride in our “finest hour” and cheerful evocation of “the Dunkirk spirit”. For decades, some historians have been busily chipping away at what they consider an indulgent myth. From the Left, attempts have been made to debunk national unity, foregrounding issues such as desertion, black marketeering, government incompetence and snobbery towards working-class evacuees.

From the radical Right came efforts to belittle Britain’s victory as the cause of post-war complacency, economic decline, welfarism and delusions of grandeur. At least one Right-wing historian criticised Churchill for refusing a deal with Adolf Hitler to preserve Britain’s empire, wealth and great-power status. More recently, Remainer historians blamed “nostalgia” for the war for Brexit. Promoters of “decolonisation” want to demolish any sense of Britain as pursuing a brave and necessary struggle. They condemn Churchill as an imperialist villain, and one voluble activist has accused the British Empire of being worse than the Nazis.

Now, celebrities on the American Right have taken up some of these themes in the name of isolationism and amoral realpolitik. Tucker Carlson, an American political commentator who spoke to Jacob Rees-Mogg on his show earlier this month, argued that Britain was foolish to throw itself into a global war when it could have done a deal – as if war is a business transaction to be assessed in terms of profit and loss.

Tucker really can’t be called a “celebrity on the American Right” anymore. Ever since the Nixon era, a man with Very Serious Hair could make a very good living in the Northeast Corridor as a talking head who poses as a Republican, but somehow, can never find an actual Republican to endorse. Since the fall of 2024, Tucker has taken that role about as far as it can go.

RESURGENS: Audi A8 Isn’t Dead After All, May Share Porsche Panamera Platform.

BESSENT YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD:

.@SecScottBessent to @SenWarren: “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to you and your family.” https://t.co/gcJEwOLlQY

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 10, 2026